City of Boise

The Dick Eardley Boise Senior Center strives to improve the health and well-being of older adults in our community. We do so by providing a meeting place where adults can participate in monthly programs, classes, activities and services focused on health, life-long learning, recreation and nutrition.

Individuals are invited to help with lesson preparation and basic behind the scenes tasks in an effort to help us prepare for school groups, events and programming. Gather supplies for lessons, organize or re-shelf library books, prepare craft supplies, etc.

Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.   

Assist center staff in the classroom with large school or daycare groups. No teaching experience necessary. 

Help manage large groups, leading pre-determined activities and assisting the educator with various tasks tasks during a lesson. 

Monday thru Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. depending on the reservation schedule. 

Assist center staff at various events either on-site or off-site locations with various educational activities and/or crafts. 

Mainly the third Saturday of each month, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the third Friday of each month, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m, and various other dates and times TBD. 

Groups or individuals are invited to help the Boise WaterShed with projects to beautify, maintain, or improve our outdoor River Campus, classrooms, interactive trail or other area that may need some work.

Opportunities will begin again this Spring weather permitting.

Boise parks are home to all types of wildlife which have a lot to teach us about our natural world. Boise Parks and Recreation works hard to provide safe spaces for our local wildlife to live, which not only includes habitat preservation but also tracking their activity to determine how they are doing. This is partially achieved through a number of citizen science programs that engage Boiseans in collecting scientific data, which is ultimately shared with national science programs. If you love to commune with nature and want to learn more about the natural world, then these programs are right up your ally.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by joining Boise Parks and Recreation, the Golden Eagle Audubon Society, and Idaho Fish and Game in Boise’s first City Nature Challenge.

The City Nature Challenge will take place on April 24 - 27, 2020, and will engage thousands of volunteers in communities across the globe to document plants and wildlife in their communities. In Boise, volunteers have the option of working with us to coordinate data collection events for themselves or their team anytime during the four day event, or join us on one of our data collection excursions taking place on April 25. Either way, training on data collection will be provided.

Below is a list of locations where we will be collecting data on April 24 and 25, 2020. More locations may be added depending on participation. If you would like to schedule a day/time to collect data during the four day event that is outside the time and locations being offered, please sign up using the "Schedule an Observation" link. We would be happy to work with you to find an opportunity that works for you. 

Volunteers must review the City of Boise Volunteer Handbook to participate.

For those looking for more of a commitment, we offer a range of opportunities that are seasonally based or year-long.

Fort Boise Community Center is located at 700 Robbins Rd., Boise, ID 83702. Hours of operation are 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. on Fridays, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Sundays.

Grace Jordan Community Center is located at 6411 W. Fairfield Avenue, Boise, ID 83709. Hours of operation are 3:00 - 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Morley Nelson Community Center is located at 7701 W. Northview St., Boise, ID 83704. Hours of operation are 3:00 - 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

After school centers are located at Hawthorne, William Howard Taft, Jefferson and Garfield Elementary Schools.

Whitney Community Center is located at 1609 S. Owyhee St, Boise ID 83705. Hours of operation are 3:00 - 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Volunteer positions which are at (or based at) Boise City Hall, 150 N Capitol Boulevard.

The Ridge to Rivers partnership consists of the City of Boise, Ada County, the Bureau of Land Management Four Rivers Field Office, the Boise National Forest and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The Partnership exists under a multi-agency Memorandum of Understanding, with the City of Boise serving as the lead agency.

The Open Space division offers corporations, schools, churches, civic organizations, and others the opportunity to participate in a service project. These projects can take place any time during the year, and will take into account your group size, availability, and what our needs are at the time.

For school groups this may include a service learning component at which students will receive both classroom instruction, as well as participate in a field activity.

Volunteers must review the City of Boise Volunteer Handbook to participate.