Volunteer

 

You can make a difference in the parks and trails that you love! Since 2015, over 25,000 members of the community have contributed 76,000 hours of service to Westchester’s incomparable parks.

Westchester Parks Foundation volunteers are students earning volunteer credits for school or religious education requirements, scouts on the lookout for a great project, local businesses interested in a team building activity, or anyone looking to put their skills to good use to help out our county parks. Join us to help support your favorite parks!

 
 

Year-Round Community Projects All tools, gloves, and instruction provided!  Sign up for as many as you like.

Corporate Partner Program We invite Westchester’s businesses to partner with us in the opportunity to preserve one of Westchester’s greatest assets, our park system. Activities are assigned based on your interests and the needs of the park at the time of the scheduled event.

Corporate Partner Program Bring your team for a day of giving back

Internships Opportunities for high school and college aged individuals, in the office or in the field

Our Clean River Project, sponsored by Entergy, addresses floatable trash, one of the three major water quality issues on the Bronx River. Volunteers participate in real science, through hands-on experiences. The information we collect helps find the source(s) and stop trash from entering the river in the first place. The project engages volunteers by promoting outreach to local businesses whose products end up in and along the river, especially uniting messaging around the harm to our waterways caused by non-biodegradable products.

Clean River Project Improving our environment through hands-on science

Pitch in for Parks, our largest community volunteer initiative surrounding Earth Day, is held each April in partnership with Westchester County Parks, Recreation and Conservation. Volunteers, working as individuals, families, large groups or local businesses take on special projects throughout the county to help spruce up the parks for the peak season. They paint, rake, prepare and plant flower beds, build footbridges and boardwalks, clear trails and shorelines, monitor biodiversity, restore wildlife habitats and remove invasive vines from trees.

Pitch in for Parks Join us for our largest week of volunteer events of the year, held every April around Earth Day!

Water Quality Stewards A collaboration with the Bronx River Alliance in a community science program to assess the water quality of the Bronx River.

 

Join us to make an impact at an upcoming event, here
For more information contact volunteer@thewpf.org / 914-231-4600