What's at your core?

Welcome 2023-24 NOWCorps Members!

Meet our 2023-2024 NOWCorps Team

Katherine

Serving as Arboretum Core & Outer Trails Assistant at Holden Forests and Gardens.

Maggie

Serving as NOWCorps Native Plant & Pollinator Specialist with Holden Forest and Gardens.

Emma

Serving as NOWCorps Conservation Program Assistant Specialist with Ashland Soil & Water Conservation District.

Anthony

Serving as Natural Resources Technician with Cleveland Metroparks.

Dennis

Serving as Horticulture Woodland Garden Assistant with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Chris

Serving as NOWCorps Watershed Steward with Chagrin River Watershed Partners.

Kara

Serving as Conservation Horticulture Assistant with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Kristina

Serving as Education Specialist with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Nic

Serving as NOWCorps Education & Outreach Specialist with Chagrin River Watershed Partners.

Shanna

Serving as NOWCorps Education & Outreach Assistant with Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Nichole

Serving as Field Station Assistant at The University of Akron Field Station.

Becca

Serving as NOWCorps Outreach Specialist with Lake Soil & Water Conservation District.

Miranda

Serving as NOWCorps Conservation Specialist with the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes.

Emily

Serving as Ecological Restoration Crew Member with The Nature Conservancy.

Maci

Serving as NOWCorps Education & Outreach Specialist with Cleveland Seed Bank.

Ben

Serving as Core Natural Areas Assistant with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Haydn

Serving as Conservation Specialist with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Zach

Serving as Watershed Outreach Specialist with Summit Soil & Water Conservation District.

Rosana

Serving as Working Woods Specialist with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Caitlin

Serving as Horticulture Biomes Assistant with Holden Forests and Gardens.

Nina

Serving as NOWCorps Watershed Steward and Educator with Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners.

James

Serving as Watershed & Stormwater Steward with the City of Aurora.

Ellery

Serving as Natural Resources Technician with Cleveland Metroparks.

Callie

Serving as NOWCorps Educator/Coordinator with Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District.

Katrina

Serving as NOWCorps Community Forestry Specialist with Western Reserve Land Conservancy.

Ty

Serving as Education and Outreach Specialist with Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

Serving as Watershed Program Assistant with Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

NOWCorps: Northern Ohio Watershed Corps

NOWCorps Class V: October 10, 2023 through September 30, 2024

 

We are hiring!

The NOWCorps 2023-24 service year runs from October 10, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

What do NOWCorps Members do? Where are they serving?

Check out the links to our multiple host site partners and specific member descriptions below. To apply, send a copy of your resume and cover letter to [email protected] and indicate ALL positions in which you’re interested. (You may apply for multiple NOWCorps positions.)

 

What is Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners NOWCorps program?

Together with our partners, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners recognizes the importance of maintaining water quality throughout Northern Ohio. We also believe in educating the public and regional leaders to support behavioral changes that positively affect our water resources. The Northern Ohio Watershed Corps (NOWCorps) works with watershed groups, soil and water conservation districts, city and county government offices, and other conservation nonprofits to facilitate outreach, education, capacity building, environmental stewardship, and stormwater management. The Northern Ohio Watershed Corps (NOWCorps) is a program of ServeOhio, Ohio’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism, and AmeriCorps, the federal agency for volunteering, service, and civic engagement. NOWCorps members will receive programmatic training in addition to site-specific training. 

While environmental stewardship is the major focus, the Northern Ohio Watershed Corps Program will focus on four major activities.

Stewardship: Improving water quality is the heart of the collective mission and being an environmental steward will help collect and gather the necessary data to do so.

Conservation: As a member you can engage in water quality testing and data collection, tree plantings, native plant installations, invasive vegetation removal, and more.

Education: Help assist our partners with program design, implementation and follow up. Certain programs will facilitate new relationships with schools, youth groups, public engagement groups, and volunteers.

Capacity Building: As a member you can assist our partners in concrete strategies for volunteer recruitment, program expansion and consistency among outreach. As a member you will obtain, improve, and retain the skills, knowledge, tools, equipment and other resources to be a true environmental steward!

 

What is AmeriCorps?

AmeriCorps, a federal agency, brings people together to tackle the country’s most pressing challenges, through national service and volunteering. AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities. AmeriCorps helps make service to others a cornerstone of our national culture. Learn more at AmeriCorps.gov.

Bring Out the Best of America

Join AmeriCorps and you’ll find your moment to inspire, build, teach, and support those who need it the most!

 

This program will be made available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital or parental status, genetic information, military service, and religion.

Congratulations to our 21-22 members for their extraordinary service! Look at all the amazing things they accomplished and check out our 21-22 Service Yearbook!

You can find more on AmeriCorps in generahere and here.