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AAVE: All About Visiting Earth Summer Adventure Travel Leaders
Southern & Northern California
The privilege of working in the adventure travel field is huge. Live the dream by becoming an AAVE trip leader. You'll teach teenagers about adventure camping techniques and life skills while facilitating group dynamics in Alaska, California, Colorado or Hawaii in the U.S., with opportunities to also lead adventures worldwide. View contact and address information View Facebook Page Follow on Twitter! View YouTube Page

American Conservation Experience Conservation Volunteers
Santa Cruz Home Base (from Catalina Island to Lake Tahoe and beyond)
Experience a different way of life. Meet people from around the world. Enjoy spectacular landscapes. Contribute your energy to meaningful and challenging outdoor projects. Take pride in your team's accomplishments. This is American Conservation Experience. Hiring volunteers each month in the western U.S. over a minimum 12-week period. View contact and address information

Camp Augusta Summer Counselors, Heroes, Village Leaders, Administration Staff, Equestrian Crew, Kitchen Team
Nevada City (Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California)
People can have a job, career, or a calling. Camp Augusta is looking for folks who have a calling. Work, play, learn, struggle and grow in a vibrant community this summer. Reap the rewards of a healthy and feel-good lifestyle. Enhance your professional and personal growth. Help foster self-confidence, independence, life-long recreational skills, safe risk taking, an appreciation for community, caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, environmental awareness and fun! View contact and address information View Facebook Page View YouTube Page

Camp High Trails Outdoor Science School Outdoor Instructors
Big Bear Mountains
Do good and fight the man. If you have a college degree, a healthy amount of experience both with kids and the outdoors and the willingness to work and live in a small, close-knit staff community, High Trails is looking for you. View contact and address information

Camp Marston and Raintree Ranch Outdoor Education Instructors
Julian (San Diego)
Teacher by day and mentor by night. The energetic team of outdoor education instructors at Camp Marston and Raintree Ranch in sunny San Diego provide a quality experience of classes, challenges, evening programs, and cabin leadership that leads to very full, fun and educational schedule for their students. View contact and address information

Camphill Communities in North America

Program in the Spotlight Camphill Communities Therapeutic Community Life Sharing Work Opportunities
Soquel (Five acres overlooking Monterey Bay)
Camphill staff, called coworkers, live and work with children, youth, and adults with developmental and other disabilities in rural Camphill communities in California, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania as well as in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. Work life may mean providing human support and caregiving, teaching a craft, working in the farm or garden, cooking wholesome meals, engaging in the healing arts, or celebrating seasonal festivals together. Full room and board, medical insurance, vacation time and a modest stipend is provided. View contact and address information View YouTube Page

View a Day in the Life Feature StoryA Day in the Life: Camphill Communities California
Learn more about a Camphill coworker who found his place to help, change, and influence the lives of others while being submerged in a culture of genuine acceptance, love, caring, thought, idea and action. Read more »

Emandal—A Farm on a River Garden, Environmental Education, Food & Hospitality Staff
Willits (Northern California)
Come explore the cycle of employment opportunities with Emandal: a unique place that not only provides a learning environment, but a chance to do something constructive while pondering life's options. This year's employment opportunities include naturalists & environmental educators; head gardener, intern and assistant; facilities assistant/animal caretaker; cooking enthusiast; clothesline concierge; and seasonal support staff. View contact and address information

Esalen Institute Holistic Residential Work-Study Program
Big Sur
Esalen. The word itself summons up tantalizing visions of adventure, of unexplored frontiers, of human possibilities yet to be realized. The 28-day Work-Study Program offers the essential ingredients for making a directed commitment to self-exploration and growth while contributing your service and working talents to the Esalen community. View contact and address information

Heifer International Residential Learning Center Volunteers
Los Altos (near Santa Cruz)
Lead educational programs. Care for livestock. Tend to the gardens. Maintain the facilities. Assist with special events. Provide operations support. Heifer International volunteers experience sustainable solutions for world hunger and poverty while educating visitors to examine their own habits and beliefs on becoming responsible global citizens at learning centers in Arkansas, California and Massachusetts. View contact and address information

Hidden Villa Summer Camp Staff; Farming, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Environmental Education Internships
Los Altos Hills (near Santa Cruz)
Live, work and play on a 1,600 wilderness preserve and organic farm in the Santa Cruz mountains! Yearlong interns and summer staff members at Hidden Villa will participate in innovative, hands-on programs promoting environmental awareness, multicultural understanding and humanitarian values where positive change in the world can be made. View contact and address information

Feature Article: A Day in the LifeA Day in the Life: An Incredible Internship Experience
Is it true that we can live out our dreams by creating our own realities? Find out how Cori's internship experience at Hidden Villa unlocked her door of opportunity. Read more »

IVGID • Diamond Peak Ski Resort Seasonal & Year-Round Hospitality Jobs
Incline Village (north shore of Lake Tahoe)
Great snow, water fun, great views, mountain living, and great work/play options: get a jump on your career with a seasonal job at Incline Village GID or Diamond Peak Ski Resort. Winter seasonal job opportunities are available in food & beverage, dispatch & ski patrol, customer service, lift & mountain operations, maintenance, transportation, and ski & snowboard instruction. The summer months bring job opportunities that include day camp leaders, lifeguards, food & beverage staff, grounds keepers, carts crew, Marshals and more. View contact and address information

Northwest Youth Corps Outdoor Crew Leaders & Leadership Development Program
Northern California
Imagine working and camping in remote areas throughout the Pacific Northwest and getting paid for it! The Northwest Youth Corps is currently hiring field staff to lead teenage conservation crews on projects stressing environmental education and the development of basic job skills with various start dates from March through October. Seasonal job opportunities are available in northern California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. View contact and address information View Facebook Page

Nyingma Centers Buddhist Residential Work-Study Program
Berkeley and Sonoma County (100 miles north of San Francisco)
Live and work in a Tibetan Buddhist community while learning about Buddhism and making a difference in your life and for the people of Tibet. Benefits include accommodations, vegetarian meals, a full range of Buddhist study classes and a living allowance. Wide range of positions available (including cooking, sewing, maintenance, landscaping, IT, fundraising and all aspects of the publishing business), some offering future job training, from three weeks to six months or more. View contact and address information

Stanford Sierra Conference Center - Seasonal Jobs

Program in the Spotlight Stanford Sierra Conference Center Guest Services & Hospitality Staff
Lake Tahoe
If an exciting hospitality job and beautiful mountain setting is beckoning you either this spring or fall, the Stanford Sierra Conference Center is a place where you'll have the opportunity to work and play hard, make new friends and help guests enjoy their stay. The staff comes from all walks of life—college students, professionals between jobs, experienced workers in the service industry, travelers or people taking time off. View contact and address information

Xanterra Parks & Resorts Food & Guest Services, Hospitality and Recreation Jobs
Death Valley National Park (Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort and Stovepipe Wells)
If you're looking for a seasonal job or career in the hospitality and guest services field at a National Park, State Park, resort or conference center, Xanterra Parks & Resorts has a job for you at over 20 beautiful locations throughout the U.S. Meet new people, learn new skills and begin your new lifestyle of adventure, discovery, work and play. View contact and address information

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Yeshe De Residential Volunteer Work Exchange Program
Cazadero (Northern California)
Volunteering for Yeshe De is more than just an opportunity to participate in a worthwhile project. It is also a chance to learn how to get the most out of any work that you do. By engaging in the Skillful Means program, work becomes a bridge to self-awareness and development. This unique volunteer work exchange program provides housing, vegetarian meals, Buddhist classes and a stipend of $150 per month all while living among the natural beauty of their country retreat center. View contact and address information View YouTube Page

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