Get Involved! 🙌✨

Sign up for volunteer projects focused on sustainability, cleanup efforts, and environmental preservation across Oakland. Whether you are planting trees, picking up litter, or helping beautify your neighborhood, your efforts will leave a lasting mark on our city and inspire others to continue caring for our planet.

Site Coordinator Roles and Responsibilities 🌍

• Register project location

• Identify and Lead service activities (e.g., litter clean-up, habitat restoration, beautification, graffiti removal)

• Request and pick up necessary tools from us

• Promote project and coordinate volunteers on the event day

• Report post-event activity

  The City of Oakland Environmental Stewardship Team can support your event by 🤝

• Promoting your project!

• Assisting with volunteer recruitment

• Providing guidance and consultation for project activities

• Tool loans, mulch, compost, and debris bin (optional)

• Support with trash & green waste removal via OAK311

General Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities 🌟

• Approach each task with enthusiasm and create a supportive environment

• Offer assistance 

• Follow all safety guidelines and report hazards to the site coordinator 

• Stay hydrated by bringing a water bottle and make sure to take breaks as needed

• Wear comfortable clothing suitable for outdoor work, including sturdy shoes and sun protection (hats, sunscreen)

• Enjoy the process and celebrate the impact you're making in the community!

Service for Peace has partnered with Oakland Public Works to lead this annually in Oakland since 2003, engaging thousands of volunteers in projects to clean and green Oakland. The Corporation for National and Community Service helps sponsor the event in Oakland, and throughout the nation. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers pitch in on similar community service projects.

Volunteers are encouraged to take action locally by keeping Oakland’s neighborhoods, local parks, and waterways clean, reporting illegal dumping, planting trees and other native plants across the city, and engaging in educational opportunities in the community!