Students at NMU can find environmental volunteer opportunities in both the community and on Northern's campus. Down below is where you can find an array of local environmental organizations and student organizations that have volunteer opportunities throughout the year. 

To learn more about volunteering head to NMU's Volunteer Center or The Hub's live volunteering feed.

 

Partridge Creek Farm

Partridge Creek Farm, located in Ishpeming, provides local food access and education to connect the community with their food and one another. Partridge Creek actively looks for student volunteers during the growing season to help grow their produce, educate elementary and high school students about local food and sell their products at market. No prior experience is necessary, although it is preferred. 

For more information, visit https://partridgecreekfarm.org/volunteer 

Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Trust (SWP)

SWP is an award winning Great Lakes nonprofit organization that has set national records for pollution prevention and implements innovative, science-based programs that achieves documented, measurable results. Each year the SWP offers dozens of opportunities for volunteers to get involved in local conservation, monitoring or education projects. These include everything from dune restoration to invasive plant removal, taking kids on field trips or restoring important fish habitat, monitoring streams or helping at a community waste collection event. 

For more information, visit http://superiorwatersheds.org/support/volunteer

Upper Peninsula Land Conservatory

The U.P. Land Conservatory promotes healthy ecosystems and communities by providing permanent legal protection and ecological management of conservation lands and by engaging the public in the protection and enjoyment of these lands. There are wide-spread of volunteer opportunities with the U.P. Land Conservatory. You can join a committee, help with trail maintenance, events, or even design.

For more information, visit https://www.uplandconservancy.org/volunteer 

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Keeping our Great Lakes beaches clean starts with you! Adopt-a-Beach cleanups are a fun, free, easy way to give back to your community and keep plastic pollution out of our Great Lakes. It’s easy to jump right into the Adopt-a-Beach community. Join a cleanup today! 

Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the Great Lakes region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes. We are active in advocacy, volunteering, education, and research. Each year, through the Adopt-a-Beach program, thousands of volunteers work to keep the Great Lakes shorelines healthy by removing litter from our beaches and collecting important data. 

You can take part in two ways: 1. Find an Adopt-a-Beach cleanup near you and sign up. A Team Leader will meet you at the beach with all the supplies. 2. You can also become a Team Leader and host your own cleanup with friends, family, or community members.

For more information, contact cramirez@greatlakes.org. We hope to see you on the beach this season!

MooseWood Nature Center

MooseWood is a non-profit nature center located at Presque Isle Park in Marquette and is looking for volunteers to host the center and welcome visitors, care for live animals during the week, help with visiting school groups and fundraisers like the Haunted Bog Walk in October. 

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Scot or Tiffany at 906-228-6250 or moosewoodnc@gmail.com.

Yellow Dog Water Preserve (YDWP)

YDWP offers three programs where volunteers are encouraged to participate: volunteer stream monitoring program, volunteer land monitoring program, and cooperative lakes monitoring program. Primarily volunteers are needed from May-October. A love of the outdoors in helpful. When participating, you will see new areas, meet new people, and get new experiences in any field pertaining to ecology. 

For more information, please contact Rochelle Dale at 906-345-9223 or at ydwp@yellowdogwatershed.org. Additional information can be found at www.yellowdogwatershed.org.

Mining Action Group

The Mining Action Group (formally known as Save the Wild U.P.) is a volunteer, grassroots effort to defend the clean water and wild places of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the dangers of sulfide mining. Help putting up posters, making phone calls, giving rides, guiding hikes, designing fliers, researching mine permits, and more.

For more information, visit https://savethewildup.org/get-involved/volunteer/