The Kauai Outdoor Circle has very minimal operating costs because currently all our activities are run with the generosity of volunteer time and talent. We hope you will join us.
As a branch of the Hawaii Outdoor Circle we are part of a greater, established and active organization that helps support the Kauai Outdoor Circle with some of its infrastructure. Therefore the organizational burdens for TKO C are less and funds donated or granted to TKOC almost all go directly to support our programs and services. Volunteers help plan what we should do. And volunteers make things happen!
We invite you to meet the tremendous wealth in TKOC volunteers by helping with something meaningful and enjoyable for you. Then you can rub shoulders with the wonderful humans engaged with our shared mission. Check out the volunteer opportunities below and let us know how we can match you with your most satisfying tasks.
You Can Help
Check out the volunteer opportunities below and let us know how we can match you with your most satisfying tasks.
Help organize and/or hold educational events.
Help identify community needs and interests, connect topics with qualified instructors, schedule, promote and hold classes and training. Are you an organizer? Do you have special outdoor skills or knowledge you can teach? One of these may be the task for you.
Help organize and/or execute beautification projects.
Help identify busy public areas around Kauai that need TLC to Keep Kauai Clean, Green and beautiful, plan work projects, secure needed volunteers and/or professionals, seek funding as needed, coordinate with government agencies and nearby landowners, advertise the projects and help carry them out. Want to just work with your hands and raise a sweat? Helping clean, weed, prune, dig, plant, and haul may be the task for you.
Help make the garden awards happen.
Help establish the first Garden Island Garden Awards. Determine categories and criteria, solicit and select judges, solicit community nominations, facilitate judging, create awards, publicize event. Are you an event organizer? Like to plan things from the beginning? This may be the task for you.
Help Advocate to Keep Kauai Clean, Green, and Beautiful.
Help identify relevant and appropriate issues for TKOC, prepare statements, meet with government agencies and community representatives, attend public meetings, write advocacy letters, enact petitions, and more. Are you a people person and a policy person? Why not give advocacy a try?
Help with grant-seeking.
The Kauai Outdoor Circle seeks grant funding for many of its activities. Help us get to know funding sources, make contacts, conceive of ways to match our needs with funders/ missions. Help write proposals and final reports.
Help maintain TKOC's mailing lists in Mail Chimp.
While the statewide organization maintains the records of TKOC's members, there is a new Mail Chimp database of individuals, organizations, agencies, and businesses on Kauai who want to keep in touch with TKOC. Help us add email addresses, do mailings and produce reports. Want some quiet computer time and something you can do from home? Have a knack for IT? This may be the task for you.
Help establish and operate social media for the Kauai Outdoor Circle.
Help establish regular appropriate and strategic social media communications with our followers and expand our capabilities with some tech savvy. An you produce professional and strategic messaging? Want to volunteer using your cell phone? Then we could certainly use your skills and time.
Help out at an information booth.
Help meet and greet the public, talk about TKOC, encourage sign up, answer questions, and gather information from the public at one of TKOC's booths. Are you gregarious? Are you good at promoting the outdoors? Want to meet and hang out with other Outdoor Circle enthusiasts? Then this may be a good task for you.
Help with publicity.
Help our team think strategically, write compellingly, and photograph meaningfully to maximize TKOC messages, and report on activities in multiple media.