Gardens of Golden Gate Park

Join us as a Flower Piano Garden Greeter! Welcome visitors for our beloved annual event, Flower Piano. Your presence as the Garden Greeter helps set the tone for every visitor's experience and makes our Gardens feel welcoming to all.

This volunteer role helps create a smooth threshold experience in the Botanical Garden for Flower Piano. Familiarity with the Gardens of Golden Gate Park and the surrounding area will help with common visitor questions.

As a Garden Greeter, you will: 

• Provide a warm welcome to guests
• Help visitors find the correct path to begin their Flower Piano experience, including wayfinding directions to the correct line, helping visitors identify the appropriate proof of membership, residency or other applicable cards to gain entry efficiently
• Share your enthusiasm for Flower Piano and Garden etiquette such as advising visitors to stay on the paths, and that wind can carry debris away easily so disposing trash properly is a necessity.
• Invite visitors to continue to support/connect with the Garden by volunteering, becoming a member or donating (share applicable QR codes or direct visitors to a nearby donation box).
• To successfully help visitors in this role, you may be positioned anywhere along the admission lines to enter the Gardens and help with placing wristbands, review proof of membership or move up and down the line of visitors to make sure they have the information that they need to find the correct line.

About You: As a volunteer of the Gardens of Golden Gate Park, you enjoy connecting people to plants, the planet, and each other. Garden Gate Greeters actively welcome visitors and help them as they identify the correct route for them as they enter the Botanical Garden for Flower Piano. Your presence helps set the tone for every guest’s experience to make our Gardens feel welcoming to all.

Location: Entrances/exits of the Botanical Garden. Examples include: Flower Piano Lounge Gate, Main Gate, and Friend (North) Gate.

Staff Contact: Drew Risner-Davis, Visitor Experience Manager

To prepare for this assignment:

• Online Training (required): Attend or watch the 2026 Flower Piano Training that will take place on Tuesday, August 25 from 11am-12pm. To register, visit this Zoom page. A recording will be made available to all registered Flower Piano volunteers after the August 25 session.
• In-Person Trainings (optional): Thursday, August 27 from 4-5:30pm -and- Tuesday, September 1, 4-5:30pm. To register, select the training listed under the Category: Training in Better Impact. 
• Plan to check-in at the Volunteer Welcome Station located near San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Main Gate at the start of your assignment
• No alcoholic beverages are allowed before or during your assignment
• It may be busy - please eat before your assignment and stay hydrated. 
• Only bring what you can carry; there is no place for storage.
• Bring a refillable water bottle that you feel comfortable bringing with you. 
• If you're still becoming familiar with the Botanical Garden's layout, we recommend spending some time walking in the Botanical Garden as a visitor at least 3-5 times prior to Flower Piano. 

To register:

• Current, active Gardens of Golden Gate Park volunteers may register for an assignment through Better Impact.
• New and returning Gardens volunteers who have not yet created a Better Impact account, should complete an Individual Registration form. You will need to complete the Flower Piano virtual training prior to volunteering and also be familiar with the layout of the Botanical Garden. Please note that if you're not familiar with wayfinding and the layout of the Gardens, there is still time to learn more, please see suggestions on How to prepare shared above. . 

Please note that while you may be able to sign up for an activitiy immediately, it will not be added to your calendar until a staff member has had a chance to review your information if you are a new volunteer in the Gardens' Better Impact system.