Meet our 2023-2024 NOWCORPS team!
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.