Office of
Volunteer Center

Environmental / Landscaping

Associated Ministries

Host of several programs to better the Tacoma community:

  • Severe Weather Shelter Program: A shelter to aid the homeless with a place to stay in the instance of harsh weather conditions.

Citizens for a Healthy Bay

Opportunities:

  • Gog-le-hi-te Garbage Grab: Each Earth Day weekend volunteers gather to clean up the Gog-le-hi-te Wetland in Tacoma’s tide flats.
  • Tide flats tree planting: Plant on and refurbish the Tacoma tide flats.
  • Working Boats: During the last weekend of September during Maritime Festival each year.
  • Bay Days: Annual environmental information fair for the community.


Guadalupe House

Help with yard maintenance, work in the garden, or at the farm.

Helping Hand House

Volunteer with this organization determined to end homelessness. Help out doing office maintenance, unit cleanup and restocking, donation pick up and delivery, garbage removal, yard work, clerical assistance and administrative, carpet cleaning, plumbing, electric work, painting, web/data base maintenance, video development, recognition assistant.

Lakewold Gardens

Help with landscaping, maintenance, and upkeep of the beautiful Lakewold Gardens, or volunteer to set up and assist with special events.

Tacoma Nature Center

The Tacoma Nature Center would like volunteer "nature interpreters" to pass on information about plant life, wildlife, and conservation efforts to school groups, daycare groups, and other visitors to the center. This opportunity takes place once or twice a week, Monday through Friday (9-noon or 1-3pm), March through May.

PLU Community Garden

Volunteers are welcome Tuesday and Fridays in the morning and Sundays in the afternoon, but we can be flexible.  They will do anything from planting to harvesting vegetables to be taken to Trinity Lutheran Food Pantry.  Potential to get some fresh vegetables in return for volunteering.  Volunteers needed for the summer.

Puget Creek Restoration Society

Volunteer half a day a month to conduct water monitoring in a stream in Tacoma.

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