{"id":3726,"date":"2018-03-12T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/?page_id=3726"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:15:45","slug":"get-involved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer and Fellowship Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Volunteer and Fellowship Opportunities<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

URI Cooperative Extension offers a number of volunteer opportunities for adults and youth across many disciplines and programs, and internships and fellowship programs for college students. If you are interested in what we do, want to help us achieve our goals, or need community service hours, please see below for ways to get involved!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For College Students<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Agriculture and Food System Fellows <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experiential learning opportunity for CCRI and URI students interested in the food-related industries.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Energy Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experiential learning opportunity for URI undergrad and grad students interested in the energy industry<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Environmental Management Fellows Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experiential learning opportunity for CCRI and URI students interested in environmental management.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Volunteer and help to provide nutrition education and food demonstrations for diverse, income eligible populations throughout Rhode Island<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Master Gardener Program Internship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seeking undergraduate interns to help facilitate our community education program that aims to strengthen the local food system.<\/p>\n\n\nExplore<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Student Internships and Paid Positions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Paid and for-credit opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from all academic majors. Please fill out this form to be notified of open positions supporting our programs and projects.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

For Adults<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Food Recovery for RI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join our community of volunteers and learn to address food waste and food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Master Gardener Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join our community of volunteers and share your passion for gardening with Rhode Islanders.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Watershed Watch Citizen Scientist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join our group of 400+ citizen science volunteers helping to gather water quality data to monitor RI waters.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more and apply<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Rhode Island 4H Clubs <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Start a local 4-H club anywhere in RI!  Share your knowledge and experiences with the next generation by becoming a club leader and mentor to youth ages 5-18.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

For Youth<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Rhode Island 4-H<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many opportunities for youth ages 5 – 18 focusing on science, health, and developing life skills.<\/p>\n\n\nLearn more<\/a>\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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Volunteer and Fellowship Opportunities URI Cooperative Extension offers a number of volunteer opportunities for adults and youth across many disciplines and programs, and internships and fellowship programs for college students. If you are interested in what we do, want to help us achieve our goals, or need community service hours, please see below for ways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19203,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726\/revisions\/19203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/coopext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}