Category: Volunteers
My Senior Project
Hi everyone, my name is Robert Anderson and I am a senior at Cape Cod Academy. For the month of May, I will be volunteering at the National Marine Life Center for my senior project. At Cape Cod Academy the senior class is required to complete 80 hours and four weeks of community service in […]
1,000 Bulbs on Main Street
Last fall, as the hospital exterior was nearing completion, volunteers were busily working to create a beautiful spring. Spearheaded by Trustee Lauren Freed, volunteers landscaped the flower bed in front of NMLC’s hospital and planted 1,000 flower bulbs along Main Street. Planting bulbs is an act of faith. You select the bulbs, prepare the ground, […]
Thank You Volunteers! – Our Trustees
In honor of National Volunteer Week, we’d like to take a moment to thank and honor our governing volunteers – our Board of Trustees. The Board works tirelessly to advance the mission of the National Marine Life Center. They govern the organization and strategically plan for our future. While they often work “behind the scenes”, […]
Thank You Volunteers! – In Our Backyard
It’s National Volunteer Week! Today we’d like to thank the volunteers who come to us from the schools in our back yard. We are fortunate to be part of a community with wonderful schools that value community service. Students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and the Cape Cod Community […]
Thank You Volunteers! – Community Service
It’s National Volunteer Week! Today we’d like to thank all the Community Service volunteers who have helped us over the years. The National Marine Life Center has been blessed with over 300 community service volunteers who have donated their time for a specific project. Some have participated in a work day while others have done […]
Thank You, Volunteers! – Top 10
It’s National Volunteer Week, and all of our volunteers are TOP to us! For the purposes of this post, we’d like to thank and recognize the volunteers with the highest number of hours in 2009. Thank you, NMLC Volunteers, for all the hours you donate to help save endangered and protected marine animals, advance science, […]
Thank You, Volunteers! – Interns ROCK!
It’s National Volunteer Week! We’d like to thank and recognize all our wonderful volunteers and in particular, in this post, our interns! The National Marine Life Center welcomed our first interns during the summer of 2006. Since then, students from colleges both near and far have joined us during the summer to help with education, […]
Thank You Volunteers! – All that they do
It’s National Volunteer Week, and time to honor and celebrate the remarkable contributions of volunteers. Volunteers are the life-blood of the National Marine Life Center. They are involved in our programs, including animal care, science, and education. They provide support services such as administration and marketing. They’ve even helped to build our new marine animal […]
Thank You, Volunteers! – Our Founders
In honor of National Volunteer Week, we’d like to take a moment to thank, honor, and remember our original volunteers – our founders. The National Marine Life Center was founded in 1995 by a group of Cape Codders concerned about the significant number of stranded animals in and around Cape Cod, and the absence of […]
Service Spring Break, part 3
National Marine Life Center Journal Entries Frank Reske, III Day 3: March 16, 2010, 7:45 am – 1 pm Today I went with Joanne and a volunteer to a high school symposium at UMass Dartmouth to talk to high school kids about what the National Marine Life Center was all about. When we arrived we […]
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