Knox Parks Foundation | How You Can Help

How You Can Help

Donating

By Mail:

You may make a financial contribution to the Knox Parks Foundation by sending your gift to:

Knox Parks Foundation, 75 Laurel Street, Hartford, CT 06106-1345.

We accept checks, Master Card, Visa and American Express. Please make your check payable to "Knox Parks Foundation." Additionally, Knox offers convenient monthly giving options. If you have any questions about contributions or planned giving, please call our Development Office at 860-951-7694.

Online:

Make credit card donations online, through a secure server. Network for Good is an organization that provides online credit card transactions for non-profit organizations.

Through the United Way

Knox Parks is a United Way Associate Agency (#5393) and gifts can be directed to us. When filling out your United Way Community Campaign Form, under Specific Care, if you want us to acknowledge that you contributed to the Knox Parks Foundation, we need you to check the bottom box that reads "I would like my gift acknowledged by the agency(ies)."

Volunteering

Each year several hundred people volunteer with the Knox Parks Foundation. Their volunteer service takes many forms and provides a wide range of necessary assistance.

Volunteers connect with Knox in many ways:

Regular volunteer groups — Typically small groups (under 12 people) include middle or high school students who come to Knox on a regular schedule and take on responsibility for a specific range of tasks. They are supervised by school personnel. They tend to work for about 2 hours per visit.

One-time volunteer groups — Groups of 10 to 40 people affiliated with businesses, colleges, schools, service groups, etc. come to Knox or a community site for 3 to 8 hours of service, usually focused on a single major task.

Community volunteers — Individuals, usually adults, who assist Knox in their own communities. Typically, these are community or school garden coordinators who assist in communication and coordination among people at their site.

Individual Knox volunteers — Individuals who come to Knox to assist with clerical work, educational programs, or gardening activities, on a regular basis over an extended period of time. They are usually high school age and above.

Committees — Groups, usually adults, who come together to assist in program development, fundraising or other activities.

Interns — Undergraduate and graduate students from local colleges and universities seeking "real life" experiences to enhance their education. Knox typically provides a range of projects ideas, an appropriate work space and staff supervision.

Training and Orientation

All volunteers are provided with orientation to the Knox mission and to nature and importance of the work they are asked to do. When the work involves skills not already possessed by the volunteers, Knox staff trains them to carry it out through instruction, coaching, and, in the case of larger groups, sometimes group problem-solving activities. Appropriate safety measures are always part of basic training.

Supervision

All work projects are carried out under direct supervision of experienced Knox staff. Committees have an appointed staff liaison.

Typical work projects:

Sowing seeds
Pulling weeds
Building raised garden beds
Clearing trails
Light pruning
Planting flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees
Installing fences

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