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Welcome 2023-2024 NOWCORPS Members!

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.

JaKE

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.

Joshua

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

NOWCorps: Northern Ohio Watershed Corps

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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 22-23 members for their extraordinary service! Look at all the amazing things they accomplished and check out our 22-23 NOWCorps Annual Report!

You can find more on AmeriCorps in general here and here.

Congratulations to our 22-23 members for their extraordinary service! Look at all the amazing things they accomplished and check out our 22-23 NOWCorps Annual Report!

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