Friendly Reminder to Record Your Volunteer Trail Work Hours
This is a friendly reminder to record your time volunteering on the trails! If you've been helping clean up the trails (either as part of our work party or individually), please log your hours so we can track the work being done!
Your Volunteer Hours Matter
Every hour makes a difference. When you volunteer for Evergreen, make sure your time counts by recording your hours.
Your volunteer hours help us:
- Secure funding: Volunteer hours can serve as matching funds for grants.
- Showcase our impact: They highlight our volunteers’ efforts to land managers and partners.
- Improve our work: Tracking hours identifies where support is needed.
- Enhance our voice: Volunteer data bolsters our fundraising and advocacy
Evergreen keeps track of volunteer hours for various grants, to determine which areas need work, and to record our impacts for bolstering our fundraising, access, and advocacy efforts.
Many of our biggest projects are funded by Washington’s largest trail maintenance grant program, the Recreational Trails Program (RTP). The RTP recognizes the hours logged by Evergreen volunteers as matching funds for the grants we receive. This is huge for us as these grants often require up to 50% in matching funds.
This means that your impact is doubled when you track the time you spent out on the trail, providing revenue for future maintenance and demonstrating to land managers how much work mountain bikers get done.
If you attended one of our Work Parties and did not fill out the volunteer time sheet:
Please email your volunteer hours and location to Sr. Trail Programs and Stewardship Manager, Brandon Good:
How to Log Your Hours
- Log in to the Evergreen website: evergreenmtb.org
- Go to My Dashboard
- Select My Volunteering
- Click Log Hours and enter your information - If there isn't a sign-in sheet or another system already capturing your time, log your hours here so your work still counts.
That's it! Please record your hours as soon as you can after volunteering while the details are fresh.
Need Help?
Not sure if your activity qualifies or whether trail work is approved? Check the Volunteer Hours FAQ or contact us at .
Thank you for volunteering with Evergreen—and for making sure your hours count!
*Remember to have the sheets fully filled out with dates, work description, location, and hours.