4.7.1 Use of Volunteers – No Blog Title Set

4.7.1 – Use of Volunteers

Standard:Volunteers shall be used by the agency in a variety of positions.

Suggested Evidence of Compliance: Provide list of functions in which agency volunteers are used, the extent of use, and examples of volunteer position descriptions.

COMMENTS: Please highlight relevant sections in the EOC provided and consolidate EOC where possible.
EOC 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 – include date on documents (full date or year)

RESPONSE: The Volunteer Handbook now highlights sections relevant to the Use of Volunteers. Date and page numbers have been added. Relevant sections are now combined into the Handbook.

4.7.1 – EOC 1R Volunteer Handbook;
Page 2 Sub-title Role of Westchester Parks Foundation Volunteer Program Staff outlines how the Westchester Parks Foundation manages and supervises volunteer activities within the Parks.

Page 3-4 Sub-title Utilization of Volunteers outlines the various positions and activities that volunteer staff have an opportunity to participate in.

Page 10 – 11 Sub-titled Volunteer Job Types, outlines what a volunteer should expect and how to potentially prepare for various job assignments.

4.7.1 – EOC 4R Updated Pitch In For Parks 2024 web link.
4.7.1 – EOC 7 Combined with web link 4.71 – EOC 4R, This link for contains registration links for multiple dates in 2024 for volunteerism.

4.7.1 – EOC 8R Dates affixed for various photographed volunteer activities.

4.7.1 – EOC 9R Has been updated to the Westchester Parks Foundations EventBrite website which is on marketing toll that the Foundation utilizes to advertise event and capture interest as well as registration data.

4.7.1 – EOC 9Ra Has been updated 2023. This document was placed on the web in 2023 representing the culminating work of an intern. It provided an educational form on invasive plants and there impact on the local ecology coupled with methods for remediation and elimination.

Narrative:

PRC uses volunteers in a variety of ways to perform tasks including litter removal, invasive plant management, trail maintenance, tree planting, raised garden bed installation, garden bed weeding, boardwalk building, river floatable trash removal, mulching, playgrounds, painting, planting site maintenance and beach cleanup.

PRC and the Westchester Parks Foundation (WPF) host a weeklong program Pitch in for Parks where individuals, families, large groups and local businesses volunteer throughout the parks system to help spruce up for the peak season. It is the largest annual volunteer event scheduled during the week of Earth Day.

The WPF Volunteer Program additionally coordinates and oversees internship programs and scout volunteer projects, and the Green Squad Program which allows an individual volunteer to work in a specific park without direct supervision either individually or as a group leader.

WPF also participates in regional cleanup initiatives including Riverkeeper Sweep, New York State I Love My Park Day, and Volunteer New York 9/11: Serve + Remember.

Agency Evidence of Compliance:

4.7.1 – EOC 1 How PRC Uses Volunteers

4.7.1 – EOC 2 Volunteer Position Descriptions Examples

4.7.1 – EOC 3 WPF 2022 Impact Report – Volunteer Program

4.7.1 – EOC 4 Pitch in for Parks

4.7.1 – EOC 5 Volunteers Planting Flowers at Lasdon Park

4.7.1 – EOC 6 Sharing Tree Program Girl Scout and Brownie Troops at Lasdon Park

4.7.1 – EOC 7 WPF Eventbrite Events – Volunteer Registration

4.7.1 – EOC 8 Volunteer Tasks – Photos

4.7.1 – EOC 9 Flyer Design by Volunteer Intern

4.7.1 – EOC 10 Green Squad Program Webpage

https://www.thewpf.org/green-squad