Volunteers for Outdoor California believes that the quality of the experience is the most important part of any of its efforts. As a result, everything about the organization and our projects is designed to make sure that every volunteer has a great time and leaves with a genuine sense of accomplishment.
V-O-Cal conducts large-scale projects — involving 100-500 volunteers — in beautiful places ranging from Monterey to the Trinity Mountains and from the coast to the western Sierra.
V-O-Cal provides the project planning and volunteer supervision for its partner agencies on its projects. A typical V-O-Cal project will have accumulated several hundred volunteer planning hours before the project weekend and provides the equipment, trained crew leaders, and quality control monitoring for the project itself, in accordance with the standards developed cooperatively with the partner agency.
V-O-Cal projects are highly organized events, relying on volunteers throughout the process. Projects are chosen by members of the Project Selection Committee. Another volunteer committee, called the Project Team, is responsible for managing and planning the project.
The Project Team works closely together to make sure that everything, from menu planning to placement of the port-o-potties, necessary for a successful project is considered.
