Volunteer Program and Media Coordinator

Our New Way Garden is looking for a volunteer to oversee and coordinate its volunteer program and communications. The Volunteer Program and Media Coordinator role is mostly virtual with some in-person visits at Our New Way Garden's locations.

Volunteer responsibilities:

• Coordinating program logistics, donation distribution, and volunteer scheduling
• Updating the website and managing social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn)
• Producing or requesting media, including photos and videos, for website and social media use
• Informing volunteers about opportunities, cancellations, schedule changes, etc.
• Developing ideas to improve systems, social media, and volunteer processes

Volunteer qualifications:

• Passionate about nutrition access
• Interest in learning about food and environmental challenges and solutions
• Some experience with editing websites and posting on social media, either through education, work, or volunteering
• Excellent and thoughtful communicator
• Sees volunteering as an opportunity to further their education, career, and self-development
• Will have flexibility regarding working hours and be a valued member of the ONWG team

Volunteers can negotiate the role title and receive professional development opportunities in farming and food systems and letters of recommendation for professional or educational purposes. ONWG is an equal opportunity organization committed to achieving its mission with cultural diversity. ONWG celebrates and encourages diversity and is committed to working with a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Express interest below!

About Our New Way Garden

Our New Way Garden (ONWG) is a nonprofit organization that increases nutrition access by growing and distributing natural produce with the power of mutual aid. ONWG has five community gardens totaling seven farmland acres in Westchester County, New York. It grows 20,000 pounds of food with organic practices each year. ONWG sells a third of its fresh produce via Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares and donates an equal amount or more to food pantries, soup kitchens, and other locations for each CSA share sold.

We center food justice and self-determination by providing public agriculture education programs. Each garden is an educational space for the public. For 10 years, we’ve run a year-long program for high school students with special needs as part of their life and vocational training curriculum. Other academic, corporate, and volunteer workshops provide hands-on agriculture experience, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and biodiversity and how farming relates to our well-being as individuals and society.

A Chance to Grow is our multi-year beginning farmer training program currently in development, which will support the next generation of farmers as we build our future food system. A Chance to Grow will teach fundamental agriculture skills like planting, harvesting, seed collection, soil science, and food systems knowledge.

Founder and Executive Director Amy Benerofe created ONWG in response to inequity in healthful food access throughout Westchester County. Amy and her team have built an ecosystem of food justice, nonprofits, academic, corporate, and individual partners, harnessing the power of mutual aid to achieve its mission.