Volunteer Opportunities - Sustainability Hub for Innovation & Environment

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)

Superior Watershed Partnership 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)

Yellow Dog Water Preserve 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.

Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior

Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior advocates for the protection and health of the Lake Superior shoreline and watershed in Marquette County, Michigan. Our current efforts are focused on advocating for wetland protection in Marquette County, as well as supporting Powell Township's efforts to strengthen their sense of community and connection to our environment.

To learn more about upcoming events or volunteer opportunities at https://citizensforsuperior.org/volunteer/. 

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/ 

League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. We never support or oppose any political party or candidate. The League of Women Voters has two separate and distinct roles.

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

NMU Hoop House

The NMU Hoop House is available to any individual who wants to experiment and learn. Interested in a directed study, soils and native plants, or have some landscape art you want to display? Volunteers do not need any prior experience, and students will have the opportunity to learn about sustainable food, vermicomposting and to work with a variety of plants in a closed-loop system.

To get involved email hoophouse@nmu.edu or check for updates on Facebook @marquettehoophouse.

Conservation Crew

NMU Conservation Crew volunteers with various local, environmental organizations. Even if you are not interested in being involved with Crew, they are a good resource for nature-related volunteering opportunities that involve working outside. 

For more information, contact nmuconservationcrew@gmail.com.