Needs From: Lowcountry Volunteer Connections

Each October, November, April and May The Outside Foundation hosts 7th graders, and their teachers, for a school day of dockside learning station and kayaking at a local marina. We seek volunteer retired science teachers, Low Country Master Naturalists, birders, and those retired form environmental-directed professions to help with our dockside stations. Our dockside stations include: dock fowling, Envrioscape water shed model, water testing, birding and binocular use, and touch tank/salt marsh foo web.

Each fall and spring The Outside Foundation hosts groups of 7th graders, with their teachers, for a day of learning about the salt marsh in the salt marsh. Students participate in dockside activities and a 2 hour guided kayak tour. We are seeking experienced kayak guides to help with teaching basic safety and paddle strokes. 

The Outside Foundation is seeking kayak guides for the Fall 2021 season of "Kids in Kayaks" programming with the seventh grade students enrolled in Beaufort County Schools. Experience as a professional guide is desired but not required. Training for the specific program will take place in September 2021. Guides must be available to help during the months of September and October, with potential needs also in late April and early May 2022. A typical "Kids in Kayas" program session is 2 hours in length and there are two sessions each day of the program. 

The Outside Foundation seeks an individual with a grants writing and/or researching background who would be interested in donating approximately 4-6 hours per week researching potential grants for funding the Foundation's various programs and initiatives.