For 26 years, VOC has been partnering with organizations across Colorado to engage volunteers in rewarding stewardship efforts that protect, enhance, restore, and preserve Colorado’s outdoors.  Our partners range from land managers and other outdoor stewardship organizations, to corporate groups and youth-serving organizations.  Here are the resources we offer to our partners:

Volunteer project development and management for land managers – VOC partners with land managers to develop and execute outdoor volunteer projects of all sizes that meet the needs of volunteers, engage the public in stewardship, and accomplish the stewardship needs of the land manager. Learn more about partnering with VOC on a project.

Outdoor volunteer experiences for community organizations –Youth-serving organizations, corporate groups, and schools seeking a fun, rewarding outdoor volunteer experience can work with VOC to organize a Stewardship with a Team (SWAT) event.  Learn more about VOC’s SWAT program.

Outdoor stewardship training (OSI) – VOC’s Outdoor Stewardship Institute, OSI, provides a variety of high quality training courses in crew leadership, trail design/construction/maintenance, ecological restoration, volunteer project management, and much, much more. Learn more about OSI.

Volunteer recruiting (VolunteerOutdoors.net) - Numerous agencies and organizations utilize VolunteerOutdoors.net, a website that offers an easy, effective way to recruit and register volunteers for all your outdoor stewardship needs. Learn more about VolunteerOutdoors.net.  

Technical expertise and capacity building - VOC’s Outdoor Stewardship Institute, OSI, also provides organizations and agencies with technical expertise and volunteer management capacity building.  Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to learn more about OSI’s capacity building.

Here are just a few of the many partners VOC works with year after year: