Volunteer Now!
We are looking for volunteers to step up to form a lively informal group to help us transition from hiatus.
Please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
executivedirector@friendsofkootenaylake.ca
We need help with our Social Media
- Do you enjoy social media?
- Like taking photographs?
- Like to stay up to date and let others know what is happening?
We need help with fundraising.
- Do have any fundraising experience? or
- An interest event organizing and reaching out to potential donors? or
- Perhaps you have a fundraising idea or a sponsorship challenge you’d like to try?
We are planning a FoKLSS Summit for the Fall. Our Summits are open to anyone interested in learning more about the Lake.
- Could you help us make our next Summit a reality?
- Maybe you have some event organizing experience?
- Or you would like to help out as we get closer to the date, or on the day?
We want to stay in touch with our Membership and other volunteers
- Do you have any experience of working
- with Mail Chimp?
- Constant Contact?
- Little Green Light?
- Or maybe you would be interested to learn more?
Our Strategic Plan needs to be reviewed and updated with some clear deliverables.
- Do you have experience that could help us reshape our strategic plan?
We want to be able to reach out and communicate with residents, businesses and communities around the Lake clearly, helping build a shared understanding of hope the Lake functions as a cohesive ecosystem, including it watersheds, flora and fauna.
- Do you have any experience of collaboration in supporting the flow of data from the lake’s many monitoring activities, to better understand any changes that are revealed?
- Do you have speaking or writing skills that could help us communicate vital findings to local people?
We want to be able to work with others around the Lake.
- Do you have any connections to local companies such as FortisBC, Columbia Power, Teck, CBT, Realtor or BCHydro?
- Or to local groups like Living Lakes Canada, Kootenay Lake Partnership, Wildsight, or Kootenay Conservation Program?
- What about local governments (the RDCK, City of Nelson and other municipal jurisdictions around the lake) and local environmental education programs (Selkirk College), or
- Local businesses, industry and consultancies with an interest in the lake and its watersheds (such as tourism, breweries, water engineering, local produce)?