Make a Difference Week, is an annual week-long event hosted by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), a global non-profit organization that works to advance the science, practice, and policy of ecological restoration to sustain biodiversity, improve resilience in a changing climate, and re-establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.
Through Make a Difference Week, individuals and organizations from across the globe are able to host and participate in restorative local volunteer events, including weed pulls, seed collections, plantings, and restoration monitoring surveys. By facilitating participation in these events, Make a Difference Week empowers individuals to make positive changes in their local communities while simultaneously engaging in collective restorative action at the global scale. This initiative also allows organizations who host events to better attract volunteers and increase the impact of their restoration activities.
There are two ways to get involved with Make a Difference Week — either by hosting a volunteer restoration event during the week of June 4-11, 2022, or by volunteering with a local restoration event near you.
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