We want to do so much more than we have been able to do, but to do that, WE NEED YOU.
On-Site Opportunities
While we rely on trained staff to provide hands-on care to sanctuary residents, our buildings and grounds crew always has a running list of chores and improvements. (Click here to see examples.)
If you’re willing to work hard and don’t mind getting dirty, then we certainly can find something for you to do. If you have special skills such as carpentry or vehicle maintenance, we may have a special job for you.
If you live nearby and could commit to volunteering regularly, we’d be happy to train you and welcome you to our on-site crew. Use the form below to get the ball rolling.
If you’re a member of a campus or community group that might like to come for a volunteer work day including a sanctuary tour, see this page to get the process started.
If you would like to volunteer only once or very occasionally, we’d love to have you join one of our open volunteer work parties. Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Facebook to be sure to be notified of the date of the next party.
Off-Site Opportunities
Fundraising
None of us here are very good at asking for money, which is a shame because it costs a LOT of money to provide food, bedding, and veterinary care to the 700+ animals who live at VINE Sanctuary.
From organizing fun fundraising events in your own town to helping VINE apply for grants, there are many ways that you could help us make some hay.
Click here for ways you could help us keep everybody at the sanctuary safe, healthy, and well-fed.
Campaigns
From our longstanding campaign to discourage the growing trend of exploitation of hens in backyard chicken coops to forthcoming campaigns against dairy and for plant-based agriculture, we have many endeavors that will stall if we don’t find more volunteers. We need researchers, news monitors, librarians, writers, and leafleters as well as experienced activists able to help plan and coordinate campaigns. Click here to see some of the things we currently need people to do.
Social Media
You can be a VINE volunteer while going about your regular online life. Do you tweet? Follow VINE and make an effort to retweet us regularly. Like us on Facebook and visit our page regularly, making sure to share some of our posts with your social circle. Do you have a blog? Add our blog to your blogroll. Write your own blog post about VINE, one of our residents, or one of our campaigns. Or, ask us for a guest post or for permission to repost one of our past posts.
Website
We need volunteer “page minders” to help us keep our website up to date. Page minders visit their designated pages regularly, to make sure the links are still live, but also –and more importantly– keep an eye out for content (web pages, videos, etc.) that we could add to the page to keep it fresh.