Volunteering Opportunities

We have some great volunteer opportunities for animal lovers, aspiring vets, vet technicians or anyone wanting a future in the field of animal care.

Make your resume stand out from the rest with some serious hands-on experience!

All volunteers must be 18 years or older.

Online Volunteer Application

Please read ALL info below before signing up!

Offsite volunteer opportunities can be done from your own home and in your own town. These positions are for self-motivated individuals. These include fundraising, raising local awareness, calling avian vets to confirm which practices treat waterfowl or running a local pet carrier drive.

Onsite volunteer opportunities normally take place here at Majestic on WEEKENDS ONLY. Onsite work is very hard work. We do everything ourselves to maximize our funds. Tasks vary seasonally and range from building pens, pouring cement, repairing ponds, shoveling sand, pushing wheelbarrows, pitching hay, barn cleaning, digging ditches, transplanting trees, landscaping to clearing snow. If you like this kind of earthy, outdoor work, then volunteer! 

Please Note: We are not currently accepting volunteer applications solely for waterfowl care or rehabilitation. These wonderful and interactive positions with the ducks and geese are reserved for volunteers who also donate their time and energy in other much-needed areas.

Liability Waiver

All volunteers are required to sign our Liability Waiver. Please preview our waiver before signing up. We will provide an actual copy to you for signature upon your acceptance into our volunteer program.

Majestic Calendar

Please view our Majestic Calendar for upcoming onsite sanctuary projects.

Offsite Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Coordinator

We are currently looking for a Volunteer Coordinator. This person will be responsible for reviewing and responding to all Volunteer Applications and communicating directly with our volunteers. They will report/coordinate all volunteer activities directly with the President.

Our Volunteer Coordinator must have access to review and respond to all emails within 24 hours of receipt. Excellent written/grammatical skills are required. We are looking for a friendly, responsible and organized person who is motivated by our endeavor and understands and respects this dedication in our volunteers.

The Volunteer Coordinator will also acquire digital photographs and write up profiles for our volunteers to be listed on our website.

We prefer to have a Volunteer Coordinator who has physically visited our sanctuary and can offer insightful and first hand information to our other volunteers. We would also like this person be someone who has volunteered for us in some other regard prior to taking on this role.

Professional Grant-Writers

We are currently seeking pro-bono, professional & experienced Grant-Writers. No amateurs please. We are desperately in need grants for a small backhoe, water rescue equipment, electricity costs, and one salaried position. If you can assist with a grant in any of these areas, please consider volunteering your services.

Fundraising Assistants

We are always in need of Fundraising Assistants. This is a self-starting, self-motivated and self-managed volunteer opportunity. When you sign up to be one of our Fundraisers, please be proactive and let us know what kind of fundraiser you would like to do along with a time frame (estimated start & end date).*

Some ideas:

Volunteers have successfully run bake sales, flower bulb sales and other magazine-based sales to raise funds for our sanctuary.

Volunteers have run profitable can drives. They help the environment through recycling and then donate the proceeds to Majestic to help the ducks and geese in our care.

Volunteers have also been successful in auctioning off artwork or items on Ebay. If you are interested in this option, please understand that we do not auction off items through our website. Volunteers will need to have their own venue to handle all aspects of the auction.

If you have another fundraising idea, please contact us with your proposal. We’d love to hear from you!

*If you plan to state that any of the proceeds from your activities are being directed to Majestic, please contact us first for pre-approval.

Supply Team

The Supply Team is comprised of volunteers who run drives in their own area to gather up much-needed sanctuary supplies to be delivered to Majestic. Pet carriers are always needed, commonly disused in many households, and a great idea for your first drive. You can visit our Wish List for other good ideas. 

Donation Team

The Donation Team is always looking for outgoing, personable, well-connected and experienced individuals with a strong sales background to contact businesses in a professional manner for 501(c)(3) donations to Majestic. Examples of items needed by the sanctuary can be viewed on our Wish List page. 

Publicity Team

Our Publicists are responsible for providing factual information to raise awareness of the plight of waterfowl abandonment with the goal of prevention. This team works especially diligently a couple months prior to Easter. They work directly with the President to organize a campaign of newspaper editorials & articles, television appearances and magazine stories. This team is also responsible for gaining national publicity for Majestic and getting our website information listed in appropriate venues. Experienced publicists and meticulous writers only please.

Vet Directory Team

Members of our Vet Directory Team call on avian vets state-by-state and determine which practices see pet ducks/geese as patients. Address and contact information is confirmed and then forwarded to Majestic. The practices are then added to our “Vet Finder” listing.

You can choose any state except CT, RI, MA, ME, NH and NY, which are already completed. Good verbal/phone skills required. Volunteers choose a state they wish to work on, and Majestic provides the phone list of vets to call within that state. 

Onsite Volunteer Opportunities

Weather permitting, onsite volunteer opportunities usually take place on Saturdays between 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and occasionally on Sundays 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.

We ask that our onsite volunteers each show up for at least 4 hours of service on any given day. Volunteers need to commit to volunteering on a consistent basis; either once a week or once a month.

Facility Maintenance Team

Our Facility Maintenance Team is mainly responsible for cleaning and refilling water buckets, disinfecting the quarantine pen & pet carriers, pitching and refreshing hay in the barn and enclosures. Friends of shovels, pitchforks, wheelbarrows, duck poop and hard work only please.

In Spring, this team is also responsible for landscaping. They help to turn over soil in our pens, seed grass, and transplant saplings and plants into our enclosures. They also assist in re-facing our cement ponds.

In Summer, they help with tasks like installing and maintaining our misting system and rotating ducks and geese through pond rotations to keep everyone cool.  

In Winter, this team helps to sand down icy pens, clear snow from aviary nets, gateways and doorways and make safe paths in the snow for our ducks and geese to walk along.

Sanctuary Expansion Team

Our Sanctuary Expansion Team is always looking for strong, healthy, outdoorsy people to help build new waterfowl enclosures, or to lend improvements to existing pens. Carpentry skills are a real plus if you want to join this team. 

Waterfowl Rescue Unit

Waterfowl rescues are normally scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Most rescues are scheduled so that we are at the rescue site by 8:00 a.m. This means that we are leaving the sanctuary as early as 6:00 a.m. Some rescues take minutes, others hours and still others, multiple trips to the rescue site. In order to participate, our rescuers must be prepared to commit to at least six hours at the rescue site (in addition to driving time) on the day of any given rescue.

Connecticut residents are invited to join our Waterfowl Rescue Unit. Volunteers must be able to provide their own transportation to our sanctuary and to rescue sites. Punctuality and reliability are key factors to be on this team. Rescuing can entail canoeing, so all volunteers must know how to swim in case of emergency.

Rescue detail also includes setting up nets, preparing and maintaining pet carriers and packing and carrying equipment. Waterfowl handling experience is recommended, especially in goose rescues, but not necessary.

Rescuers with access to transportable Jetski or small motorboats are urgently needed.

Attendance to our Annual Waterfowl Rescue Training Seminar is required.

FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR ANIMALS: