Volunteer Opportunities in the City of Fort Collins

Boards and Commissions

Contact: Karla Smith -

Safe Routes to School

creating a safe environment for kids to travel to and from school.
Contact: Kristin Kirkpatrick -

Bicycling

Contact: David "DK" Kemp -

Street Clean-up/Adopt a Street

Contact: Holli Keyser -

Community Clean-up: CSUnity

Contact: Melissa Emerson -

Police Services

Contact: Gerry Mitchell -

• Assist the Investigations Detectives
• Data Entry
• Follow up on citizens inquires
• Clerical tasks

Volunteer Victim Advocates - provide crisis intervention and emotional support to victims and family members of crime, serious accidents, death cases, etc.

Water Conservation

Master Gardeners from the C.S.U. Extension Office

Arts and Culture

Lincoln Center

Ticket takers, guides, coat checks, handing out programs, and seating our patrons.
Contact: Ruth Smith -

Fort Collins Museum

Contact: Amy Scott -

• Education: lead elementary school tours and facilitate Discovery Touch Carts
• Exhibits: painting, carpentry, and other aspects of exhibit preparation and installation
• Front Desk: greet visitors and help orient visitors to the Museum.
• Museum Store: ring sales on the cash register and answer questions about merchandise.
• Collections: research artifacts, label and catalogue items, create storage boxes for objects, and enter data.
• Special Events: setup and teardown, planning and promotion, and serving of refreshments.
• Local History Archive: indexing historic newspapers, oral histories, maps, and other archival records, scan photographs and entering information in electronic databases, research questions from patrons
• Docents: educational ambassadors for the Fort Collins Museum who provide fun, interpretive, and hands-on learning experiences for visitors of all ages

Natural Areas

Contact: Sue Kenney () or Susan Schafer ()

• Master Naturalist – teach others about nature
• Volunteer Trail Host - promote outdoor safety and awareness
• Adopt-A-Natural-Area - monthly litter clean-ups
• Trail maintenance
• Building bat and flicker boxes
• Seed Packaging
• Bird survey
• Weed pulling
• Beaver tree painting
• Native Plant Gardeners

Recreation

• Program Assistance
• Coaching
• Maintenance Assistance
• Adaptive Recreation
• Senior Center - greeters, library and shop monitors, special events, preparing mailings, and more