Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers are integral to Green Building United.

Every year volunteers help achieve our mission, and there are a variety of ways to engage with our organization. Opportunities include serving on a committee, helping day-of at an event, and donating time to a project. If you have volunteer ideas, we'd love to hear them; contact Leah Wirgau. Note that some volunteer opportunities require individuals to have individual membership.

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Committees

Committees typically meet in-person and/or by-phone on a monthly or quarterly basis and are a great way to dive into a specific focus area of the organization. See committee opportunities below. 

If interested in a specific committee, please email the committee contact with questions and for details about the next meeting date and time.  

Development - For those interested in cultivating short- and long-term financial support for the organization.

Contact Margaret Salamon  

 

Education & Programs - For those interested in planning events and programs for the green building community.

Contact Leah Wirgau 

 

Member Engagement - For those interested in attracting and retaining individual members for the organization.

Contact Joseph Parisi

 

Policy & Advocacy - For those interested in legsislative advocacy.

Contact Katie Bartolotta 

 

Living Building Challenge Community Council - For those interested in helping coordinate LBC focused activites. 

Contact Drew Lavine 

 

Passive House Community Council - For those interested in helping coordinate Passive House focused activites.

Contact  David Salamon

 

Delaware - For those interested in helping advance the green building movement in Delaware.

Contact Cory Budischak

 

Lehigh Valley - For those interested in helping advance the green building movement in Lehigh Valley. 

Contact Christa Kraftician

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Events

Our major events (Sustainability Symposium, New Gravity Housing Conference, and Groundbreakers Awards) would not run as smoothly without the help of our volunteers. If interested in volunteering for one of these events, please contact Margaret Salamon.

Other event volunteer opportunities are announced in our e-newsletter as they become available. 

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Projects

The 2017 Community Impact Project was a dyanamic inititiave developed and led by volunteers. Volunteers released a request for concepts and after careful consideration selected NKCDC's Frankford Gateway initiative. Volunteers then raised funds, and coordinated logistics for a volunteer day where over 60 people prepared soil, weeded, picked up trash, and planted a variety of trees, shubs, and flowers. 

If interested in volunteering with the 2018 Community Impact Project, please contact Leah Wirgau, Education and Engagement Manager, for details. 

 

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