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9 people are interested
City Grazing is seeking Internal Committee members
ORGANIZATION: CITY GRAZING
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9 people are interested
City Grazing's Internal Committee governs various aspects of the organization from volunteer management, yard improvements, grant writing, and other fundraising. Have experience with internal governance of organizations and want to help out? Come apply!
More about City Grazing:
Our Vision:
To create a community inspired by goats.
Our Mission:
Sustainable land management and fire risk reduction through outreach, education, and implementation of goat grazing.
What are the issues we are trying to help alleviate?
- Climate change
- Disconnection from nature
- Growing ignorance of our place in the greater ecosystem
- What are City Grazing’s larger goals?
- Sustainable land management: Creating safe enclosures to focus goats on grazing areas to remove fire hazards and invasive weeds and brush.
- Enhancement of habitat
- Building healthy soil
- Bringing joy to people
- Giving back to our often-ignored communities
- Stimulating awareness of humanity’s connection to nature
- Helping people recognize animals’ needs and intelligence, and their similarity to us
What are our strategies?
- Bringing goats to grazing sites, large and small, public and private
- Educating through demonstration
- Hiring from our least-resourced communities, finding those with natural talent and helping them develop needed skills
- Continuing to grow our volunteer program
- Social media saturation
- Adopting goats and telling their stories
- Developing a long term vision plan
What are our current capabilities?
- 120+ goats!
- Incredible individuals creating an amazing team
- Networking with workforce training programs to to source local talent
- Vital social media presence
- Strong volunteer program
- 10 years of sustainable land management experience
What are our progress indicators?
- Continued growth of operations, donors, subscribers, volunteers
- Healthy goats
- Job satisfaction of employees
- Vegetation shift from invasives to natives at annually recurring sites
- Soil development at recurring sites
- Increased organizational efficiency
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About CITY GRAZING
Location:
100 CARGO WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, US
Mission Statement
Sustainable land management and fire risk reduction via goat grazing.
Description
City Grazing adopts retired dairy goats and other goats in need of a new home. We give them a new life as grazing goats. Our goat grazing program fights fires through risk reduction and provides sustainable land management, helping to eradicate invasive plants and support native California flora. We depend on our amazing team of volunteers and fundraisers to provide for the many needs and expenses of caring for 100 goats not covered by our grazing program.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
March 15, 2024
SKILLS
- Management
- Donor Management
- Fundraising
- Grant Writing / Research
- Community Outreach
- Resource Development / Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 10 hours a month
- Grant writing experience is a plus.