Youth and Family Volunteer Opportunities
Prospect Park Alliance offers opportunities for families and youth ages 17 and under to lend a hand and explore Brooklyn’s Backyard! Learn more about opportunities to help keep Prospect Park green and vibrant.
Junior Volunteer Corps
Select Saturdays + Sundays, 1 pm–3 pm
Join Prospect Park Alliance for fall family fun! Groups with supervised youth ages 4-13 are invited to join us to rake leaves and help tackle litter. Lend a hand to help spruce up Prospect Park, learn the value of service and meet other families and children. Please note that locations vary.
Park Pitch In: Street Tree Care
September 29, October 6, 20, 27, 11 am–2 pm
Locations Vary, Free, Registration Required
Help Prospect Park Alliance care for our trees! Volunteers will help support our urban forest by tending to the hundreds of street trees that line the perimeter of the park. Participants will learn how to weed, mulch, and aerate tree beds. Volunteers will also learn how they can care for the street trees in their neighborhoods.
Appropriate for groups, teens and adults. Locations vary by date.
Park Pitch In: City of Forest Day
Saturday, October 26, 11 am–2 pm
Willink Entrance, Free, Registration Required
In collaboration with BSE Global and National Grid, join Prospect Park Alliance for a Park Pitch In volunteer event on City of Forest Day, a city-wide effort to raise awareness and celebrate New York City’s urban forest. Prospect Park Alliance volunteers will plant over 400 trees and shrubs as well as perform weeding and tree bed care to restore Prospect Park’s beloved landscape, which has seen the loss of a significant number of ash trees since 2017 due to Emerald Ash Borer, a wood-boring beetle that is deadly to trees. Each tree planted will count towards BSE Global and National Grid’s “Threes for Trees” initiative, which is committed to planting a tree in the Brooklyn community for every 3-point basket made by players from the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, Long Island Nets, and Nets GC during their regular season home games. Together we can help enrich our environment and provide green spaces for generations to come.
Appropriate for groups, teens and adults.
Park Pitch In: Lefferts Historic House Yard Renewal
Sunday, November 2, 11 am–2 pm
Lefferts Historic House, Free, Registration Required
Help Prospect Park Alliance support the newly restored Lefferts Historic House by assisting in yard and garden work. Volunteers will remove invasive and unwanted wild plants and add wood chips to pathways.
Appropriate for groups, teens and adults.
