Employment Opportunities:

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Youth Allies for Sustainability Program Coordinator

Job Duties: Organize leadership camps and monthly trainings for youth on sustainability, diversity, and youth organizing. Facilitate, mentor and train youth to be active leaders in their community. Organize youth to participate in leadership positions within schools, local agencies and government. Oversee and support a youth leadership group. Collaborate with different community organizations. Supervise website updates/content and moderate list serves. Creatively market the project to target populations.

Qualifications: Experience working with youth, experiential education, outreach, marketing, sustainability and diversity education, and working with public and/or private school systems. Must have proven skills in project management and be able to operate independently and follow through on assigned tasks. Must be culturally competent and responsible, as well as have the ability to build trust and rapport with youth and work in collaboration with other agencies/organizations. Must be able to pass a background check. Training/supervision will be provided.

Volunteer Opportunities:

- Volunteer Committees. Time Commitment: varies, typically 2 hours per week, on-going.

• Marketing and Public Relations

• Fundraising and Special Event Planning

• Programs

  • Curriculum Development Team

  • Program Evaluation Team

- Community Outreach and Communications: website updates and maintenance, Monthly Newsletter. Time commitment: 5 hours per month, on-going.

- Sustainability Education: Lend expertise or time to "school greening" and sustainability projects as part of Earth Care courses. Time commitment: varies with projects, on-going and flexible.

- Sustainable Santa Fe: A Resource Guide 2006: Now looking for volunteers to join the design & content team. Time commitment: varies, July - October.

- E*Vision 2007 Conference: Starting in January 2007, become part of the planning team for the 2007 conference! Time commitment: varies, January - October.

- Sustainability Library Coordinator: Enjoy books? This is a great opportunity to get to know all facets of sustainability and lend a hand to organizing our educational library. Time commitment: 2 hours per week, on-going. For a full description of this volunteer opportunity CLICK HERE!

- General Office Help: Updating Earth Care contact databases. Time commitment: varies as needed, on-going.

For a Volunteer Application CLICK HERE! Please contact Christina Selby if you are interested in any of these opportunities with Earth Care. Christina@earthcare.org or 983-6896

Changemakers: A Teen Volunteer and Leadership Training Program

With One World Coffee and Trade as a base, the Changemakers Teen Volunteer Program allows young people, ages 13-21, the to opportunity to gain and practice collaborative leadership skills while making a positive difference in their community. Make friends with like-minded people, and contribute something you care about.

Volunteer Opportunities at One World Coffee and Trade:

Hands-on Construction: Creating a flagstone patio outside One World and encircling it with a coyote fence. 

Social entrepreneurship incubator: Interested in developing products or helping other people to create businesses that are good for the environment and our community? Join this committee to develop and solicit the development of spin-off businesses or products to be sold in the store. Examples include Molly’s recycled clothing, Anya’s crocheted socks (she’s in the process of developing), and Abudujannah’s coffee candles. Other ideas have included making our own compost for sale, making t-shirts, and taking photos students take of the store and making postcards out of them. This committee will both develop new products and also support students who are already making things.

Store product expansion: Think we need smoothies, breakfast burritos, and bagels? Join this committee and find new products for us to carry, set up meetings with those vendors, and solidify our relationships with them. Members of this committee will need to do the work of setting up these relationships, to get the food in the door—dreaming about cool foods isn’t enough! 

Education: Sure we sell food, but we’re an education organization, right? Join this committee to help solidify speakers and field trips around our philosophical areas of focus: Sustainability, globalization and fair trade, justice, equitable economics, local economy, cultural diversity and democracy, healthy environment. Initial ideas include integrating educational materials into a specific staff/volunteer training structure, planning group events to meet with experts or watch films, planning fieldtrips to places like the dairy we get our milk from, and organizing store events that invite in community activists—but this committee will be responsible for conceiving of and implementing any ideas they think are exciting! 

Environmental sustainability: Have you noticed we are not yet zero-waste? What are we going to do with our compost once Rachel stops bringing it to Monte del Sol? As we expand (eg. to add outdoor seating, build a fence or deck, etc.), what building materials will we use? Can we do something else to generate heat (like getting a solar panel donated)? Join this committee to determine the store’s future ecological footprint. 

Outreach: Gather your friends and peers to come to the coolest place in town! Visit schools, or simply become more active at your own, and publicize events, solicit more volunteers, bring teen customers into the store. Target schools where we don’t currently have volunteers, like the Santa Fe Indian School and Capital High, so we can truly represent every Santa Fe area high school. 

Store Events: Plan One World's Annual Music and Festival Events and plan weekly music, poetry, speaker, and/or fundraising events. 

Simply the Store: Just like to make people their chais and mostly want to stick with the work of the store? There’s a committee for you too! Have a hand in making the store more efficient, solidifying processes and store training, messing with the chairs and tables or flow of traffic. Get involved in the day to day oversight of the store as a business. Options are available to learn nitty gritty business tools with Houston, like inventory, cost/benefit analysis, obtaining small business loans, budgeting.  

Marketing and PR: Wish we had advertising in the Reporter? Like going door to door to meet the neighbors? Like to sell stuff? Join this committee to create posters and flyers, canvass the neighborhood, create ad campaigns, and conceive of new ideas for increasing our visibility and popularity. 

Other: Propose a committee idea! What committee do you want to create that would fill a real need at One World / Earth Care? Tell Rachel and she’ll help you form it.

To find our more about the Changemakers program at One World Coffee and Trade, contact Rachel at 983-0407, 699-2858 or Rachel@earthcare.org

Friends of Earth Care International

We need your support in educating and empowering teens to create a thriving, just, and sustainable world. We accomplish this through the generous support of people just like you.

Earth Care International is a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization, and all donations are tax deductible. 

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Or you can mail your contributions to the following address:

Earth Care International

P.O. Box 885

Santa Fe, NM 87504-0885