Volunteer

Volunteer 4 hours of your time at this amazing wine festival by the Bay, and get a free ticket (a $50 value!) and wine glass to participate in the wine tastings and all the rest the festival has to offer.  

You will be assisting with: ticket sales, will call, wearing our bay creature costumes, chef demos, assisting sponsors, runners, etc. Proceeds of the event support Save The Bay’s programs.  Enjoy live music, wine seminars and demonstrations from award winning chefs.

Can you list the major functions of wetlands or name one animal that relies on our hard work? How many different species of San Francisco Bay mammals do you know? What’s the difference between a native plant and an invasive weed? If you know the answer to any of these questions, please come out and share your knowledge. If not, we invite you to come out and learn!  Volunteers will help us remove invasive species while our project leaders teach the importance of wetland restoration.

One of the benefits of restoring wetlands is cleaner, healthier oceans. Come out and enjoy the warm weather and gorgeous views while you help remove trash and weeds that foul the water and harm wildlife. It’s the ocean’s special day, so let’s make sure it gets the clean water and bountiful fauna it deserves!

Bring your Dad and show him you care by helping us pull out invasive plants at The MLK Jr. Shoreline. With your help we can create space for the fathers of the natural world: a place for wildlife to forage for their offspring, a safe, clean haven for fish to spawn, and beautiful places for play!  So come on out and celebrate all our fathers with Save The Bay!

Save The Bay worked for decades to secure public control of salt ponds in South San Francisco Bay. Now you can help make the largest wetland restoration project in the history of the Bay a grand success. The delicate plants and animals that call this beautiful place home need your help. The waterfowl, shorebirds, and fish will be singing your praises as you help remove invasive plants and make room for their growing families.

The Bay belongs to YOU! Celebrate Independence Day early by freeing native seedlings from their starter containers and giving them the space to grow. Our natives have lots of soil to call home and they just need your trusty hands to help make the transition. Celebrate the vitality and preservation of your beautiful Bay at the Native Plant Nursery in Oakland.

The egrets and herons await you! These majestic birds are in the throes of their breeding season and provide a beautiful backdrop and delightful chorus to accompany the transplanting chores at our Native Plant Nursery. Our new greenhouse has plenty of capacity for you, your friends, and many native seedlings. Please join us for a weekday reprieve from the concrete jungle and enjoy nature’s cacophony

Shakespeare and his cast of colorful characters would be proud ofthe habitat restoration we are completing in the wetlands! A chorus of birds and a bevy of magnificent mammals await your presence. Please join us for a morning of invasive plant removal and help us prepare the site to receive its next batch of native plants come winter. See you soon at Ravenswood Salt Ponds in Menlo Park!

Come help Save the Bay at Eden Landing in Hayward/Union City and witness the power of numbers on this special collaborative day. Volunteers like you will be working simultaneously at four different restoration sites around the Bay. You will learn about local, native plants such as sticky monkey flower, marsh coyote bush, and salt grass while we work together to  help endangered animals by pulling out invasive plants and removing trash that threatens their habitat. Your contribution will make the Bay a healthier place to live, work and play.

Come help Save the Bay at the Palo Alto Baylands and witness the power of numbers on this special collaborative day. Volunteers like you will be working simultaneously at four different restoration sites around the Bay. You will learn about local, native plants such as sticky monkey flower, marsh coyote bush, and salt grass while we work together to help endangered animals by pulling out invasive plants and removing trash that threatens their habitat. Your contribution will make the Bay a healthier place to live, work and play.

Join us for first Bay Trash Hot Spot Clean-up at Damon Slough. We’re cleaning up this trashy slough before the trash reaches our beauftiful Bay! Damon Slough was one of two winners of our 2012 Bay Trash Hot Spots contest, so we’ve adopted it by hosting two cleanups here in 2013. This waterway needs it! With trash from the Coliseum and flea market flowing into the bay, this sensitive slough is often inundated with trash. This is your chance to pitch in and pick up at this East Bay gem!

Enjoy Bay breezes and the sweet sound of bird songs as you prepare former salt ponds for the next batch of native seedlings. You will play a vital role in the largest wetland restoration project on the West Coast. Invasive plants and trash may think they’ve won. Let’s show them that the native plants are here to stay! Come learn about the exciting changes happening at The Faber Tract in Palo Alto.

Beat the heat with a morning in the cool marsh. The wildlife and vistas of the shoreline beckon And there is important work to be done. You can make a big impact by helping us remove invasive plants and trash at the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline. The endangered wildlife and native plants can’t wait to thank you!

Come explore the hidden lives of plants! The nursery is teeming with activity, but you’d swear the plants were sleeping. It’s time to move our seedlings into bigger homes and give them space to grow, and you can play a vital role. Find out more about your local, native plants such as sticky monkey flower, marsh coyote bush and salt grass as you prepare them for their new life by the Bay.

You and the Bay should get to know each other better. Invasive plants and trash are moving in too fast and you can help! Come be a breath of fresh air and help make room for the native plants and animals that belong on the shoreline. The herons, salt marsh harvest mouse, and sticky monkey flowers will sing your praises as you work by the Bay!

Fall is around the corner and you’re just in time to catch the Bay in all its summer glory. Cool mornings await you with beautiful views and the calls of herons and egrets. Shake off your end-of-summer blues and take in the majesty of your surroundings. You can make a difference for the Bay by helping us remove trash and invasive plants. See you soon at the Faber Tract in Palo Alto!

The vibrant and fragile plants and wildlife living in Eden Landing need a hand, You can make a difference when you help remove invasive plants and trash. The endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, steelhead trout, and starry flounder don’t know what they’d do with you. Come learn about the exciting changes happening in your Bay.

The life of a seed has its ups and downs. While the roots head down, the delicate leaves reach for the sun. These plants will provide food and habitat for endangered animals of the Bay. Each plant can become a vibrant member of the Bay community if we help it thrive. You can help us give larger plants more space to grow and be a part of restoring the Bay. The endangered wildlife and native plants can’t wait to thank you!

The Bay and ocean need your help and Coastal Cleanup Day 2013 is the perfect opportunity to lend a hand. It’s high time the low tides were trash free and bursting with healthy wildlife. Up and down our fair state fans of the coast are gathering their supplies and spirits to make the dream of a clean coast a reality today. The California clapper rail and steelhead trout can’t wait for us to save the Bay!