Offers programs including recycling initiatives and education, litter reduction, beautification, and community improvement activities. Offers school presentations to grades K-4 on recycling and litter control, and presents to neighborhood associations and business.

Keep Phoenix Beautiful | Keep Phoenix Beautiful

Programs that maintain lists of individuals who are willing to make presentations on any of a variety of human service topics and social issues or which have paid staff or volunteers, one of whose primary responsibilities is public awareness and education with respect to one or a variety of community services, issues and problems.

Speakers/Speakers Bureaus

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to decorate or otherwise prepare a facility for a special event e.g., set up tables and chairs or put up/take down a tent; help with participant registration; staff an information booth, manage a silent auction table or do other work during the event; and clean up afterwards.

Event Setup/Cleanup Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to take responsibility for planning and coordinating special events. Activities may include arranging event logistics, renting  suitable space, overseeing decoration of the facility or other preparations, assigning tasks to supporting staff/volunteers and supervising their activities, and ensuring that the event runs smoothly.

Event Coordination Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing to spend time picking up trash that accumulates on the highways, in rivers or streams, on beaches, in flood control channels or on other public property on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Litter Cleanup Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to clear debris (such as dangling limbs, leaning trees or bushes) that may be blocking access to homes, roads or public areas following a disaster or other emergency; or to clean up after other activities such as the removal of buildings that creates debris. Tasks may include transport and disposal of construction waste such as sheet rock, wood, cement or rubble; removal and recycling of roofing metals and vehicle scrap metal.

Debris Removal Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that sponsor community beautification projects in which people, usually volunteers, pick up litter that accumulates on the highways, in rivers or streams, on beaches, in flood control channels or on other public property; maintain nature trails; pull weeds; repair fencing; fix broken equipment; or otherwise clean up, fix up or generally improve the appearance of the urban environment and its natural surroundings.

Community/Nature Area Cleanup/Enhancement Projects

Responsible for town building safety, planning and zoning services, and code compliance enforcement.

Camp Verde Community Development | Camp Verde Community Development

Programs that are responsible for inspecting homes and other structures to ensure that they meet building codes and standards.

Building Inspection

Local government planning offices that gather information on existing physical, social and economic conditions; project future trends; examine alternative courses of action; and develop long and short-term land use plans to guide the growth and revitalization of urban, suburban and rural areas within the community. Planning staff promote effective use of the community's land and resources for residential, commercial, recreational and agricultural purposes; help local officials make decisions about social, economic and environmental problems; plan for the development of parks, schools, public housing and other infrastructure; and address traffic congestion, air pollution, water pollution and a wide variety of other issues that arise as a result of growth and change in a community.

City/County Planning Offices

Programs that review and approve proposed zoning for the property submitted by the developer in situations where current zoning does not reflect the intended use of the property. Although zoning requests may be submitted with other development project application paperwork, they are generally forwarded to the department, commission or committee responsible for zoning issues and are reviewed and approved through a separate process.

Proposed Zoning Review/Approval

Programs that are for responsible researching, establishing, maintaining and overseeing the implementation of general and specific/area plans for land use at regional, county, city and community levels; ensuring an appropriate level of community input during the planning process; regulating the current and future use of public and private lands through the establishment and enforcement of zoning regulations and other land use controls; and reviewing and ruling on requests for zoning alterations and other variances from established land development ordinances.

Land Use Planning and Regulation Services

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing to fill positions on an organization's advisory board, board of directors or board committees on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Board/Committee Member Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide information about local building code requirements, mechanisms for reporting building code violations, access to building code citations, consultations regarding correction of building code violations and a process for appealing building code decisions.

Building Code Enforcement/Appeals

Volunteers remove graffiti, address illegal signs in public right-of-ways, and assess sites for community cleanup project.

Phoenix Blight Busters Volunteer Program | Phoenix Blight Busters Volunteer Program

Programs that provide a hotline, website or other mechanisms that people can use to report accumulations of garbage, castoff materials, junk cars, tall grass, dilapidated buildings or other conditions on public or private property that violate local anti-blight ordinances and impact community health and safety.

Anti Blight Initiatives/Reporting

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to spend time painting over or removing inscriptions, designs and other markings that deface buildings, walls, rocks and other artifacts or natural structures in commercial districts, residential areas or the countryside.

Graffiti Removal Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that paint over or remove inscriptions, designs or other spray painted markings that deface homes or other structures in private, residential areas.

Residential Graffiti Removal

Programs that paint over or remove inscriptions, designs and other markings that deface structures in business districts.