About: Volunteer
New England Primate Conservancy is a grassroots nonprofit organization that depends upon the skill, talents, and generosity of its volunteers to accomplish the essential and important tasks associated with wildlife protection, conservation, and humane education. Our volunteers make our programs successful!
Whether it’s writing for our Primate Species Profiles series, developing educational activities and lessons, editing, fact-checking, designing graphics, producing videos, or fundraising, there is something for almost everyone who wants to do their part to help animals.
We do not have any paid employment opportunities at this time. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please check out the open positions and email us with your interest and qualifications, as requested.
No telephone inquiries, please.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
experienced grant writer/researcher
New England Primate Conservancy (NEPC) seeks a grant writer to support foundation prospecting and proposal customization for our conservation education and wildlife protection work.
NEPC is a biodiversity and wildlife conservation organization that uses education and digital storytelling as its primary conservation strategy. Our work focuses on long-term, upstream impact—building conservation literacy, empathy, and informed action to protect primates and the ecosystems they share.
This role is well-suited to someone who is already familiar with the rhythms and realities of grant work and is interested in applying that experience in a mission-driven context. We work with established narratives and strategy and value thoughtful collaboration, sound judgment, and clear communication.
Because this role involves U.S. private and family foundations, applicants must be based in the United States and familiar with the U.S. grant funding landscape.
What this role involves:
- Researching private and family foundations aligned with wildlife conservation, biodiversity, climate, and environmental education
- Assessing alignment beyond surface-level category matches
- Customizing existing proposal narratives for individual funders
- Tracking prospects and application status
This role may be a good fit if you:
- Have prior experience with grant writing or grant research for nonprofits
- Understand that grant work is iterative and often long-arc
- Are comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with organizational leadership
- Value collaboration and thoughtful iteration in a mission-driven environment
This is a remote volunteer position, with communication via email and occasional phone or Zoom meetings with the president and management staff.
Minimum age 25. Must be located in the US.
Hours per week are negotiable. We’ll work with your schedule.
Please email a letter of interest describing your relevant grant experience, along with your resume or CV:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
debra@neprimateconservancy.org
SEASONED WRITER WITH A PASSION FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
Are you a talented and seasoned writer? Are you passionate about wildlife conservation? Do you love digging into wildlife facts and crafting stories about what you’ve learned? If so, this volunteer opportunity may be for you!
New England Primate Conservancy is committed to leaving a legacy of hope and tools to build a better tomorrow for all the Earth’s citizens.
At NEPC, we strive to make the complex science behind environmental protection, animal protection, and wildlife conservation easy to understand so that the average person can assess, consider, and modify their own impact on the natural world. We pour through science-based publications and “translate” them into language that everyone can embrace. We even succeed at making it fun, when appropriate.
We are seeking talented writers for our Primate Species Profiles series, the backbone of our education programs. We find our Primate Species Profiles cited widely throughout the internet by conservation sites, wiki sites, zoos, bloggers, news agencies, magazines, other animal protection and conservation organizations, and more. In addition-and very importantly-they are used by students for their school projects.
Nowhere else can one find so many primate species so thoroughly yet concisely profiled in easy-to-understand, non-scientific, non-academic language that everyone can comprehend and enjoy. This is what makes the information that we provide so accessible and so popular.
Creative writing and thorough factual research are required.
This volunteer position can be accomplished from your home, with email, Zoom, and phone correspondence with the Education Team.
If you are a mature writer with a passion for conservation and wildlife protection, this opportunity may be for you.
Minimum age 25.
10-20 hours per month. We’ll work with your schedule.
Please send your letter of interest, writing sample, and resume or CV to:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
debra@neprimateconservancy.org