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 Conservation
Program Assistant 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.
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.
Rosana
Serving as Working
Woods Specialist with Holden
Forests and Gardens.
Caitlin
Serving as Horticulture Biomes
Assistant with Holden
Forests and Gardens.
Zach
Serving as Watershed Outreach
Specialist with Summit Soil &
Water Conservation District.
Nina
Serving as NOWCorps Watershed
Steward and Educator with Tinker’s
Creek Watershed Partners.
Ellery
Serving as Natural
Resources Technician with
Cleveland Metroparks.
JaKE
Serving as Watershed &
Stormwater Steward with the
City of Aurora.
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.
Catherine
Serving as NOWCorps Outreach Specialist with Doan Brook Watershed Partnership.
Serving as NOWCorps
Outreach Specialist with
Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners.
NOWCorps: Northern Ohio Watershed Corps
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.)
- Ashland Soil & Water Conservation District
- Chagrin River Watershed Partners
- NOWCorps Education and Outreach Specialist (Filled)
- NOWCorps Watershed Steward (Filled)
- City of Aurora
- NOWCorps Watershed Steward (Filled)
- Cleveland Seed Bank/Hummingbird Project
- Cleveland Metroparks
- Cuyahoga County Board of Health
- Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District
- NOWCorps Educator/Coordinator (Filled)
- Doan Brook Watershed Partnership
- NOWCorps Outreach Specialist (Filled)
- Holden Forests & Gardens
- NOWCorps Arboretum Core and Outer Trails Assistant (Filled)
- NowCorp Biomes Assistant (Filled)
- NOWCorps Conservation Horticulture Assistant (Filled)
- NOWCorps Conservation Specialist (Filled)
- NOWCorps Core Natural Areas Assistant (Filled)
- NOWCorps Education Specialist (Filled)
- NOWCorps Horticulture Woodland Garden Assistant (Filled)
- NOWCorps Native Plant and Pollinator Specialist (Filled)
- NOWCorps Working Woods NTFP Specialist (Filled)
- Lake Soil and Water Conservation District
- NOWCorps Outreach Specialist HT (Open)
- Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
- NOWCorps Conservation Specialist (Filled)
- Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)
- The Nature Conservancy
- Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners
- NOWCorps Watershed Steward and Educator (Filled)
- NOWCorps Outreach Specialist QT (Filled)
- Summit Soil and Water Conservation District
- NOWCorps Outreach Specialist (Filled)
- University of Akron Field Station
- NOWCorps Field Station Assistant (Filled)
- Western Reserve Land Conservancy
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. 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 receive programmatic training, site-specific training, and have access to an individual training stipend which allows members to participate in training opportunities unique to their interests and needs.
NOWCorps focuses on four major activities to promote environmental conservation.
Conservation: Improving water quality is the heart of the collective mission. Our members enact strategies and techniques to support conservation initiatives including stormwater mitigation, erosion reduction, soil health, and more.
Stewardship: Engage in water quality testing and data collection, tree plantings, native plant installations, invasive vegetation removal, and more.
Education: 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: Support 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?
What's at your core?
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 2022-23 members for their extraordinary service! Look at all the amazing things they accomplished and check out our 22-23 NOWCorps Annual Report!
Congratulations to our 22-23 members for their extraordinary service! Check out our 22-23 Member Yearbook to learn more about their service year journey!
NOWCorps News
NOWCorps Members on the NEORSD Clean Water Works podcast.
NOWCorps members Julio Olivarez, hosted at The Nature Conservancy, and
Katie Burnsworth, hosted at Erie Conservation District were interviewed for the NEORSD “Clean Water Works” podcast. Scroll down to episode: Small Plates: The 2023 Ohio Stormwater Conference to hear what they had to say.