Get involved with the San Mateo Surfrider Chapter. Make a significant difference in your own community, and join the network of many other motivated and focused leaders of the community.

Here is a list of our current volunteer needs.  If you are interested in any of these opportunities or would like to volunteer in another way, donate or become a sponsor, please contact us using the Contact Form at the bottom of this page, or email us at involve08@surfridersmc.org!

• Help us host a table at local events to pass out literature and represent Surfrider Foundation. 

• Help distribute flyers for general meetings and other Surfrider events at local stores, libraries, colleges, etc.

• Manage the Chapter website, MySpace and FaceBook pages

• Regularly update the sites with current information

• Find and purchase materials for workshop models (materials list provided, funded by chapter)
• Organize materials for models and gets them ready for use (guide provided)
• Time commitment: 7 hrs. per month; this work can be done from home during spare time, so long as the models are ready for the monthly workshops (TBD)

   Please contact: Sarah Corbin (scorbin@surfrider.org)

• Collect water samples from local beach sites and take them to one of two local drop-off sites

• Samples are taken early mornings on Mondays

• Reliable transportation needed

• Experience with following general scientific procedure and protocol
• Experience with water quality monitoring and familiarity with (or willing to learn) IDEXX quanti-tray method of testing a plus
• Good at working with others
• Available on the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) for a couple of hours
• Time commitment: ideally we would have four lab techs, so the time commitment would be six hours on one weekend per month.

• Experience working in a lab setting
• Experience with water quality monitoring; familiarity with IDEXX quanti-tray method
• Excellent at working with others
• Willing and able to train lab techs and water samplers (quarterly training)
• Time commitment: six hours one weekend per month plus two extra weekend hours every third month.

Fundraising Committee Member

Without funding, it is impossible for a chapter to do the environmental work it is formed to do.  Fundraising events serve two purposes 1. They bring in money and 2.  They provide a social activity. Chapter fundraising events include staffing social activities, t-shirts sales at events, soliciting local business sponsors and gathering donation items. 

Involvement: If you choose to secure five auction items for an event, it could take you anywhere from three days to a week or longer.  If you commit to sitting at a table and selling t-shirts on a specific day, it would take a few hours.  You might volunteer to be in charge of locating a venue for an event.