Get Involved

AZHomegrownSolutions is a volunteer-run 501c3 organization that depends on the talents and skills of its membership to succeed. We are looking for solutions-oriented people to help us out with the following projects listed below.

If you are interested in any of the following opportunities - please email Info@AZHomegrownSolutions.org

AZHS is committed to helping community and school gardens succeed. In order to do this we need people to assist us with the following:

• Team Coordinator- helps organize tasks and volunteers and manages the scope of the project (4-8 hrs per month)
• Interviewer to meet with existing community and school gardens and interview the organizers and write up their stories for publication online and in our newsletter (4-8 hrs per month)
• Workday coordinator to contact the gardens each month to find out when their workdays are and post them to our events calendar and other volunteer sites (4-8hrs per month)
• Resource list developer to add to our ever-evolving list of resources available to community gardens (4-8 hrs per month)
• Cataloger for AZHS’s current community and school garden resources. Also responsible for developing instructions on how to request items from our resource bank and lending library as well as how to donate items to these resources(20-25 hr one time project)
• Relationship Developer to build relationships with local businesses to acquire items such as expired seeds, surplus plants, woodchips, etc. (4-8 hrs per month)
• Best Practices Developer to interview existing garden coordinators about the process of setting up viable community and school gardens and writing a booklet/pdf doc to serve as a reference for new community gardens. (20-25 hrs one time project)
• Green Mapper to add new community and school gardens to our Open Green Map online. (4-8 hrs per month)

This team will be focused on recovering locally available resources to be repurposed primarily for community and school gardens and other projects with partner organizations.

• Team Coordinator - helps organize tasks and volunteers and manages the scope of the project (4-8 hrs per month)
• Community Garden Liaison - contacts our list of community and school gardens to find out what their resource needs are and creates a wish list for each project. (4-6 hrs per month)
• Online Freebie Finder - scours Freecycle, Craigslist and other outlets of free materials for items on the wish list. Contacts the material’s source and arranges for item pickup through the Pickup Coordinator. (4-8 hrs per month)
• Resource Pickup Coordinator – identifies a pickup resource person at each community and school garden and alerts the pickup resource of the free item opportunity (2-4 hrs per month)
• Resource Bank Setup Team – Participates in the cleaning, cataloging, testing and storing the materials at our storage garage in Central Phoenix. (one time setup – 4 volunteers – 3 hrs each)

AZHomegrownSolutions is the local partner of Open Green Maps, a global mapping project to identify and map local green sites around the world. The map is a citizen-driven project. Each local partner establishes a goal for their map. Our map is designed to showcase sites, public or private, that embody our mission of “discovering, implementing and sharing local solutions”.

• Team Coordinator - helps organize tasks and volunteers and manages the scope of the project as well as letting other non-profits know that they can add the Green Map to their website as a widget (4-8 hrs per month)
• Site Researchers (multiple opportunities) - finds new sites that would be a good fit for the map, builds a spreadsheet with site name, address, contact person, description of the site, web address, photos etc. and inputs this to our Open Green Map (4-8 hrs per month)
• Technical Writer - writes FAQs for how to use the map (one time project 5-10 hrs)

One of the key elements of sustainability is building a strong, local community. The Phoenix metro area is sprawling so we’ve developed Action Groups to bring people together where they live. Help build community in YOUR part of the Valley by volunteering with our Action Group Team.

• Team Coordinator - helps organize tasks and volunteers and manages the scope of the project. Interfaces with the AZHS Steering Committee. (4-8 hrs per month)
• Action Group Co-leaders – help to organize events movie nights, potlucks, seed swaps, classes, etc in their part of town.
• (2-4 hrs per month)
• Action Group Solutioneers – help their Co-Leaders by identifying local event venues, places of interest, resources, projects that need help, partnership opportunities, etc. (2-4 hrs a month)
• Action Group Technical Writers – help organize information sheets, write best practices and compile information to help the Action Groups succeed. (4-8 hrs per month)