Required Volunteer Survey 

&  Please Tell Us How You Wish to Serve

Please take a few minutes to fill in this application to become a MNG volunteer.  Once you have completed this and dropped it off at the front library desk of the library and have completed the signed our “Code of Conduct” and “Background Check” forms, you will be an active volunteer with Marshall Native Gardens and you will then be entitled to many perks. 

We invite you to check https://sites.google.com/site/madisoncountygardens/about-us/become-a-volunteer-or-a-patron of our Marshall Native Gardens Initiative webpages or see the Garden Display Bulletin Board in the entry of the library for detailed information about the many perks that being one our active volunteer and/or patrons makes you eligible for.

Your Contact Information:

First and Last Name (as you wish to be addressed):

____________________________________________________________________________________

Phone #: ______________________ Email Address: _________________________________________

Please Provide Us With Some Additional Information:

How did you learn about us?

 __________________________________________________________________________________

What do you hope to learn from being a volunteer in our Gardens?

__________________________________________________________________________________

Your Background / Education:       Please Check all the following that apply

   ____ Educator     ____ Homemaker     ____  Scientist      ____ Designer/Artist      ____  Business Person     ____ Government

   ____ Nurseryman     ____ Landscape Architect       ____ Engineer      ____ Home Gardener        ___ Computer/Media Person

  ____ Other: ______________________________________________________________________

Additional Required Forms to 

Complete Becoming an “Active Volunteer

Fill in a your Background Check Form:    Once you have identified the areas that you wish to volunteer for, the County requires all our garden volunteers periodically submit a “background check form”.  This form is available at the front desk of the library.  Please complete that form and leave it with the librarian. This confidential information is only seen by the Library Director and needs to be periodically updated and resubmitted. You can find that form at the front desk of the Library and once you complete it please leave it with the librarian for their processing.

Review and Initial “MNG Code of Conduct” Form:     Also, at the front desk we ask that you carefully read the content of the “MNG Code of Conduct” displayed in a 3 holed punch notebook kept at the front desk. Once you have reviewed that information, you will need to sign/initial and date the last page in that folder. This documents you have knowledge of our MNG “Code of Conduct Policies”. This provides you with information to help protect all our volunteers and visitor, especially children and is to be reviewed annually by all our volunteers. Alternatively, this form is also available on our webpage where you can print the last page, sign it, and then submit it to the library front desk for processing.

YOUR  VOLUNTEERING  PLEDGE

to serve Marshall Native Gardens

Help us get you involved as a volunteer in role/s that fits your interests & constraints and to periodically update your changing circumstances.  Please carefully consider and check one or more of the many areas you intend to serve/volunteer for.  Details about our volunteer opportunities are shown on below.  A hardcopy of this pledge form are available at the front desk or Gardens Display Board in the library.  Once you fill out this information, please leave it with the Librarian.

Please check all that you are interested in serving as this year :

_____Executive Committee Member:

_____President or co-president

_____Secretary

_____Treasurer

_____At Large Member

______Committee Chair or Member:

______Outreach & Education

______Gardens & Grounds

______Volunteers and Social

______Fundraising and Plant Sales

______Executive Committee

_____Garden Champion of Member:

______Entry Garden

______Butterfly Garden

______Medicinal Garden

______Rain Garden

______Shade & Woodland Garden

______Pizza Garden

______Forest Farm Garden

______Bird Garden

______Native Grasses & Cliff Garden

______Native Shrub Garden

______Garden Maintenance (planting, watering, bird feeders, tool and shed maintenance,

______Garden Docent (Garden Tour Leader)

______Garden Assistant to Tour Leaders

______Photographer

______Online Assistance

______Website

         ______Facebook

______Volunteer Coordinator

For more information the above roles, please see our webpage at:

https://sites.google.com/site/madisoncountygardens/about-us/become-a-volunteer-or-a-patron

SUMMARY OF “CODE OF CONDUCT POLICIES”

FOR ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS

OVERVIEW:

Marshall Native Gardens Initiative (MNGI) has adopted the County Library “Code of Conduct” and “Child Safety Policies”. In addition, because our volunteers often work with children who have been in the court system or are a in residential schools for special needs, we feel all our volunteers may need a witness if a child makes a false accusation of inappropriate conduct NOTE: This policy is intended to protect both the child and the volunteer! The wording for this important added policy follows:

Our Volunteers are not to be alone with children. So, at least 2 adults must always be nearby and/or within view when children are present in the Gardens. Note: The second adult can be another volunteer, teacher, parent, or library staff member.

DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS:

There is a notebook located at the front desk of the library that contains a hardcopy of all these policies and at the last page there is a sign-off page that we ask all our volunteers to read and sign annually.

Also, in that notebook are blank background check forms that we also ask each volunteers to complete and leave that with the librarian (All your information is kept confidential).

Records documenting compliance with such policies are needed for us to secure most funding grants which are important to our programs and projects !