Corporate Volunteering

Volunteer Opportunities For Corporate Teams

Does your corporation or place of work encourage employee team volunteer work?
EcoSpark offers engaging opportunities for corporate volunteers to discover and experience the natural world around them, while contributing to important citizen science programs. The information gathered from these activities is added to research databases used by scientists and policy makers to identify and address key environmental problems. The following projects are available for corporate volunteer teams.

City Nature Challenge

The City Nature Challenge 2025 takes place from April 25 - 28, 2025. Every record of a plant or animal helps track biodiversity! Everyone can participate. Enroll with EcoSpark as a corporate group for workshops, resources, and the chance to win prizes with your team, no matter where your offices are located.

“Become a Citizen Scientist” Virtual Sessions

In this webinar, EcoSpark will introduce simple ideas and resources for environmental monitoring activities that can be done at home, the office or local greenspaces. Participants in any location will learn how to find and identify a wide variety of plants, insects and animals using interactive species ID apps and field guides in their own community. Using these apps, EcoSpark will teach participants how to conduct local wildlife surveys and how to contribute and submit nature observations to online databases for citizen science.

Introduction to Hands-on Activity: Participants can choose to go outside and engage in nature study to collect local observation data using the citizen science apps. This independent volunteering builds on the tools introduced online.

In-Person Park Watch Sessions

Park Watch introduces volunteers to a variety of Biodiversity citizen science projects carried out in GTA greenspaces and parks. EcoSpark staff lead participants in activities such as monitoring local species, and conducting bird surveys. Participants gain an understanding of the connections between plants, insects and animals for ecosystem health. Information and data collected during Park Watch events is contributed to relevant scientific databases for researchers and policy makers. 

Volunteer teams will use binoculars and other monitoring equipment to identify and record local species. Park Watch activities support the following skills:

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Community Mapping

Locate greenspaces in the local landscape and identify community ecological health characteristics. Contribute environmental observations and explore maps that relate the data to climate change research.

White moth on white sheet.

Biodiversity ID

Find and identify a wide variety of plants, insects and animals using the interactive species ID apps and field guides, as well as photography and pollinator nets as appropriate. This data will be contributed to online databases to support conservation. A.Buckley, CC-by-NC

Red-winged blackbird perched on a branch.

Bird Surveys

Participants use binoculars, bird calls, and visual ID tricks to enhance their bird watching while also learning about the best apps and guides for bird watching and monitoring. Bird data will be analysed and submitted to online databases to learn about trends in migratory patterns and the impacts of environmental toxins.

A group of students outside recording observations of trees.

Tree Benefits*

In this specialized Park Watch workshop, participants will learn to use simple urban forestry tools to measure the environmental and economic benefits of local trees. Carbon, water storage and air benefits calculators translate this information to plan stewardship actions.

*Tree Benefits available by request.

For questions and inquiries about the Corporate Volunteering program
info@ecospark.ca
or 647-258-3280 x 2003