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Feedback

Give us suggestions, accolades, critique, or anything else that can help us serve you and the world better!  The best way to do this would be to email us at farm[at]tryonfarm.org for general feedback, or edu[at]tryonfarm.org for feedback about our education programs.  You can also call us at 503-245-3847, or post something on our facebook page! 
 
 

Roles and Tasks

The following is an incomplete list of roles and tasks, organized by working group. Please contact volunteer@tryonfarm.org (or the working group or task coordinator) to jump in!

 

PHYSICAL ECOLOGY

 
 

Roles:

 

Materials Coordinator

(3 hrs/wk; 3 month commitment; >50% onsite)

  • Keep track of existing materials: location, stock, etc.
  • Identify new sources of reused materials.
  • Ensure that Craigslist, Freecycle, and other online redistribution mechanisms are regularly reviewed and used
  • Receive requests for materials
  • Coordinate “schlepping” volunteers to acquire and transport materials efficiently

On Land Research Coordinator

(>5 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)

  • Solicit and coordinate development of proposals for research programs on the land
  • Establish and maintain partnerships with academic institutions and independent researchers
  • Ensure that research protocols are followed
  • Liaise with other working groups (education, social ecology) as needed.

Annuals Coodinator

 

Food Forest/Edible Landscape Coordinator

 

Building Coordinator

 

Animal Coordinator

  • Goats
  • Chickens
  • Bees

OSALT/easements liaison.

(>5 hrs/mo; >1 yr commitment; >10% on site)

  • Attend OSALT meetings
  • Establish relationships with appropriate administrators in State Parks, Metro Parks, and City BES
  • Ensure that commitments and responsibilities under terms of ground lease and easements are met

Planning Coordinator

 

Native Habitat Coordinator

(>3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

  • Coordinate with Park, Metro, and other habitat professionals
  • Improve and expand native habitat restoration plan
  • Train and oversee volunteers in implementing restoration plan.

Work Party Host

(3-8 hours per event; 4 events in 12 month period; 100% on site)

  • Welcome and orient participants during Thursday or Saturday work party
  • Address questions and concerns, ensure that everyone feels as comfortable and engaged as possible
  • If possible, conduct land tours (training available)

Restoration Research

(>5 hrs/mo; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)

  • Research and/or develop innovative ways to assess native habitat functionality, including partial functionality in hybrid plantings with nonnative human-functional plants
  • Establish protocols to assess changes in habitat function
  • Coordinate with other groups and research coordinator to ensure data is gathered, analyzed, and results integrated into planning

Freecycle/Craigslist monitor

(>1 hr/wk; 1 mo commitment; >0% onsite)

  • Review online exchange forums for potentially or actually useful materials, services, etc.
  • Coordinate with materials coordinator and/or volunteer coordinator
  • Can be entirely online and offsite.

Write research reports

 

Energy Coordinator

 

Water System Coordinator

(>5 hrs/wk; >6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)

  • Develop plan for water management on land, including:
    • stormwater bioremediation and use;
    • rainwater collection;
    • greywater;
    • dams and swales for infiltration and irrigation;
    • cisterns;
    • nanohydropower and/or pump-batteries;
    • wetland/headwaters restoration;
  • Link plan to Park, Watershed Council, neighborhood, City, etc. efforts to monitor and improve watershed health;
  • Coordinate with other groups in our social ecology to implement plan.

Tasks:

 

Stuff Schlepper

(0.5 to 3 hrs per occasion; added to list w/ availability)

  • Be willing to move stuff from somewhere to TLC Farm
  • Access to vehicle preferable, including bike trailer! (Not required.)

Observations

(0.25 to 1 hr; 10 occasion commitment; 100% on site)

  • Read data gathering protocol
  • Receive short training
  • Gather various kinds of data, both general and specific, qualitative and quantitative

Garden Tasks

  • planting
  • mulching
  • harvesting
  • weeding
  • sorting
  • watering

Animal Tasks

  • feeding
  • egging
  • milking
  • vet stuff
  • moving fence

Building Stuff

finish suana, toilet, barn, rocket bench, maintaining cob

Paths

(>0.5 hrs; no commitment)

  • Lay down woodchips on existing paths where muddy using wheelbarrows and pitchforks;
  • Lay down cardboard for new paths (under guidance of coordinator).

Literature research

(> 1 hr; variable commitment; >0% on site)

  • In coordination with research coordinator, research both on-line and library sources for data, protocols, analyses, practices, etc.
  • Report results of research, in a form depending on situation.

EDUCATION -

  • Contacts: Youth Education Coordinator - Matt Gordon - mattg (at) tryonfarm.org
  • Education Working Group meets biwekly.
 

Roles:

 

Scheduling Visits (currentlyfilled by Education Coordinator)

(3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >75% on site)

  • Maintain calendar of class visits
  • Coordinate with edu teachers and schools/agencies to schedule visits
  • Return any appropriate phone/email messages promptly
  • Be responsible to edu working group
  • (If wished, coordinate with infotech coordinator to make scheduling more automated and online)

Leading Field Trip Activities

(<2 hrs per session; 5 session commitment; 100% on site)

Tasks:

 

Curriculum Development

(10 – 50 hrs; >15% on site) Experience preferred.

  • Coordinate with edu working group to develop curriculum goals and audience
  • Research existing curricula, and make as much use of existing material as copyrights allow
  • Create curriculum resources, including teaching guides and aids.
  • Present curriculum to working group/teachers.

Making signs to Spec

(10 – 25 hrs; commit to complete project; probably 100% on site)

  • Acquire materials
  • Construct signs with support from building coordinator
  • Create online tour (10 – 50 hrs; >15% on site)
  • Develop specific parameters for online tour in coordination with edu working group and infotech coordinator

Create clickable map of land

  • Combine photos of land with information and links regarding physical and program features of organization
  • First phase: implement on line version of physical land tour
  • Later phases: add much more in-depth information, links, etc.
  • Document all work so that anyone else can pick up where you leave off
  • Web skills preferred but not required!

COMMUNICATIONS

 

Roles:

  • Publicity Pipeline Coordinator (>3 hrs/wk; 6 months commitment; >25% on site)
  • Receive publicity requests from working groups
  • Ensure that copy is produced and edited to standards
  • Coordinate with graphic designers, if necessary
  • Determine appropriate outlets for publicity (ie. community calendars, advertisements, radio, journalists, flyers, etc.)
  • Coordinate flyerers
  • Consoldate publicity into packages
  • Coordinate with working group

Monthly Updater

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >0% on site)

  • Solicit information for monthly updates from working groups, etc.
  • Compile both text and HTML versions of update based on models
  • Send updates using web interface

Media Point

 

Web Designer

(> 10 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >10% on site)

  • Develop improved communication/collaboration infrastructure
  • Build systems for parallel online / offline information accessibility
  • Improve navigation and ease of use.
  • Develop and implement new look and feel

Web Updater

(1-3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >0% on site)

  • Adapt to changing web infrastructure to update content of web site
  • Currently, basic experience with HTML and Linux is strongly preferred.
  • Receive text and pictures from working groups, then create/update HTML pages based on templates

Database Administration

(10+ hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)

  • Coordinate with working groups to develop data management goals
  • Communicate with CiviCRM development community and/or infotech coordinator (depending on background) to develop adequate tools
  • Develop and communicate data entry, management, and export protocols
  • Explore and improve data integrity
  • Provide appropriate, secure public access to and website integration with data
  • Maximize decentralization of data entry and management

Tech maintenance

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; 100% on site)

  • Maintain wired and wireless data networks
  • Maintain and improve older Linux computer systems (Debian and SuSE)
  • Maintain phone systems (VOIP?)

System administration

(5-10 hrs/mo; 1 year minimum; >0% on site)

  • Remote Debian vserver
  • Medium traffic mission-critical Apache webserver
  • Medium-traffic Postfix mailserver (spam issues!)
  • Security improvements

Newsletter Editor

(10 hrs/mo; 1 issue/quarter commitment; >25% on site)

  • Solicit articles from community members
  • Compile and edit text
  • Coordinate with graphic designer
  • Coordinate with printer
  • Distribute newsletter

Tabling Coordinator

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)

  • Identify and register for appropriate tabling opportunities
  • Train tablers
  • Schedule tablers

Publicity Materials Coordinator

(5-20 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >50% on site)

  • Ensure that we have adequate, organized stocks/full sets of pamphlets, canvassing supplies, flipbooks, DVD’s, CD’s, etc.
  • Coordinate (re)design of new materials

Planning Coordinator

 

Working group point person

(3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

  • Convene meetings
  • Ensure that a spoke reports to spokescouncil
  • Keep track of various publicity-related activities and address any breakdowns in process

Tasks:

 

Flyers

(.5 – 3 hrs; put on list OR responsibility for area; >0% on site)

  • Download and print (or pickup) flyers, post in identified locations in selected area
  • Posting to Lists (0.5 – 1 hrs; suggest commit for 2 months; 0% on site)
  • Post already created email messages to a set of lists you’ve chosen

Graphic Designer

(1-10 hrs; on list; >15% on site)

  • Meet with publicity pipeline and/or other relevant folk to set design goals
  • Design posters, flyers, handbills, web pages, HTML messages, etc.
  • Both computer-based and hand-drawn
  • Knowledge of GIMP and/or Photoshop preferred.

Writing Stories for Newsletter

(1-20 hrs; per story basis; >0% on site)

  • Discuss story ideas with editor for particular issue
  • Write and submit story on agreed timeline to allow for revisions
  • Story lengths range from 250 word vignettes to 1500 word features

Writing Articles for media

 

Tabling

 

Photography/Video

 

Writing/participate in website usefulness

 

EVENTS

 

Roles:

 

Calender Coordination

 

Booking Agent (music)

 

Workshop Coordinator

(5 hrs/wk up to fulltime; >1 year commitment; >25% onsite)

  • arrange a quarterly community workshop schedule that loosely fall into a yearly cycle of themes
  • coordinate with workshop presenters to schedule workshops.
  • communicate with presenters about location, price, materials, and other workshop logistics.
  • work up a publicity statement for each workshop and compile quarterly workshop posters/trifolds.
  • ensure publicity for workshops.
  • facilitate registration for workshops.
  • schedule & train Farm Hosts for each workshop.
  • evaluate workshop program and provide feedback to the events working group & TLC Farm.
  • There will be a two month training period

Planning Coordinator

 

Auction Coordinator

 

Sound

 

Food Prep

 

Tasks:

 

Cleanup - barn/land/rooms

 

setup

 

door/shuttle/bar/rovers

 

Workshop hosts

 

SOCIAL ECOLOGY

 

Roles:

===Network Organizer=== (40 hrs/wk; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)

  • The liaison will seek out, learn about, and link to a wide variety of organizing spaces (movements, organizations, communities, etc.) broadly aligned with “ecological and social justice” by:
    • attending scheduled meetings and events;
    • doing interviews;
    • volunteering; and
    • sharing information.
  • Suggest and/or plan events, programs, and projects at TLC Farm that will encourage practical experiences of effective collaboration, mutual understanding, and interdependance.
  • Plan and coordinate an ongoing series of wisdom councils deepening the relationship between social justice and ecology movements
  • Coordinate the development of curricula for training liaisons (TLC Farm and other organizations)
  • Identify and develop relations with 5 intimate partner organizations and 15 intermittent ones
  • Interview 30 organizations/communities regarding ongoing strategic planning process
  • Quantify initial accessibility of programs to marginalized and oppressed communities, and double it.
  • Openly document hir work, primarily online:
    • maintain journals on spaces: impressions, thoughts, connections
    • discuss tactics, methodologies, skills, or wisdoms considered or used
    • expand and revise “training manuals” for liaisons
  • Identify and support people who will act as ongoing liaisons between other spaces and TLC Farm (as well as each other).

Inspiration Occasion Coordinator

(15+ hrs/mo; >3 mo commitment; >50% on site)

  • Organize monthly engagement event
  • Coordinate tour, work party, evening events, etc.
  • Ensure adequate participation by working groups
  • Be inspiring

Initial Interviews (Volunteer Coord.)

(>2 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >50% on site)

  • Training in social ecology infrastructure
  • Have sitdown meeting (0.5 – 1hr) discussing and recording background, skills, interests, etc. of interested volunteer
  • Suggest appropriate working groups, next steps, etc.
  • Enter information into database

Legal Details Coordinator

(5-10 hr/mo; >2 yr commtiment; >15% on site)

  • Become familiarized with all elements of legal situation of TLC Farm: lease, easements, taxes, contracts, employment, non-profit, liability, etc.
  • Coordinate with working groups to address ongoing issues and identify new ones
  • Coordinate pro bono and, as necessary, paid legal representation
  • Extensive training provided, but legal background required

Intern Coordinator

(5-20+ hr/wk; >6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

  • Revise and improve internship guidelines in coordination with working groups
  • Solicit interns in coordination with publicity pipeline
  • Develop specific internship agreements with interns outlining goals and expectations
  • Coordinate intern orientation and connection with point person
  • Meet with interns regularly to assess progress and address problems
  • Document internships and assess effectiveness

Planning Coordinator

 

Tasks:

 

Outreach, building relationships

(>1 hr/mo; added to list; >0% on site)

  • Make connections with other organizations and communities by attending meetings and funneling information, relationships to and fro

Body work

(1+ hr per session; added to list; not necessarily on site)

  • Massage
  • Acupuncture
  • Reiki
  • etc.

Counseling

(1+ hr per session; added to list, 5 session commitment; not necessarily on site)

  • Various modalities
  • Training preferred, at least some relevant experience required

Facilitation

(<3 hrs per meeting; added to list, 5 meeting commitment; usually on site)

  • Experience required
  • Training available

Mediation

(2+ hrs per session; added to list; not nec. on site)

Volunteer Follow-up

(1+ hrs per session; 10 session commitment; >25% on site)

  • Call or meet with volunteers to evaluate experiences, identify growth areas
  • Coordinate with social ecology working group
  • Record data

Legal Advisor

(on list, no necessary commitment)

  • Willing to provide at least some verbal advice on area of expertise

Data entry

(1+ hrs per session; no minimum commitment; >15% on site)

  • Wide variety of data entry protocols
  • Experience not always necessary

FINANCE

                                

Roles:

 

Grant Coordination

 

Canvass coordinator

 

Accounting/irs

 

Budget Planning Coordinator

 

FOF Coordinator

 

Major Donor relations

 

Mailings Coordinator

 

Bookkeeping/data entry (donations)

 

Presentations/pitches

 

Tech Maintenence

 

Tasks:

 

Financial Advisor

 

Writing grants

 

Canvassers

 

mailing party

 

Tax letters

 

house party organizing

 

Asking FOF for Money

 

Phone Banking

 

Fundraising Advisor

 

SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY

 

Roles:

 

Community Yum (sauna & sound)

 

Planning Coord

 

Sweat Coord

 

Sacred Place stewardship

 

social shamans

 

Tasks:

 

Moon/Sun Ceremonies

 

Altars & shrines

 

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