My Green Lake reader Caroline Sherman wrote to give us a heads-up on a very cool website: Flash Volunteer.
Flash Volunteer is a “web-based engagement portal” for volunteer service in Seattle. You can use it to search for volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood or to create your own volunteer events to promote to your neighbors.
While there are no current volunteer opportunities listed for Green Lake, “I thought it might be useful for folks in Green Lake to know about it,” says Caroline. “The more folks know about it, the more opportunities might emerge through it.”
Previous Green Lake volunteer events listed on the site included helping with set-up for the Girls Rock! day camp, doing data entry at the Freestyle Disc World Championships, and building a green roof shed at Green Lake Elementary School’s Olallie Native Garden.
Thanks, Caroline!
Ollalie Native Garden Work Party | Photo courtesy Yvette Herrera-Greer
Update, 11:30 a.m.:
Thank you, Carolyn, for leaving this helpful reminder in the comments to this post:
There are lots of Greenlake-area volunteer opportunities to search from at the County’s primary hub for finding volunteer opportunities: www.uwkc.org/volunteer
Just type in the zip code and you’ll find penty of Greenlake-area opportunities.
