2022 HarborLAB Student and Volunteer Feedback.
If you helped HarborLAB in 2022, please take a few minutes to provide your feedback on 2022 programs and goals by answering the following questions. Note especially the open final question, to cover any topics that might not be covered. Please provide as much insight as you can, but we recognize that "I don't know" is the most honest answer. 

Please respond by January 13. Your input will inform our coming volunteer board meeting, on January 19. THANKS!
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Email *
Phone number: *
Legal last name. *
Legal first name.  *
Optional: Name that better reflects your identity, Anglicized name, nickname, or other names you prefer used. 
Optional: Pronouns. 
Age. *
Were you an unpaid volunteer with HarborLAB in 2022? *
Were you a stipended student with HarborLAB in 2022?  *
Were you a non-student who was paid by HarborLAB for services in 2022? *
Are you owed payment or documentation for school credit by HarborLAB?  *
Whether on water or not, what were your favorite HarborLAB tours or programs in 2022? *
What programs or tours do you envision that HarborLAB has not conducted?  *
What programs or tours from years past (especially pre-pandemic) would you like to see revived? *
What are your top organizational priorities for HarborLAB, ranging from administration to physical assets and facilities? In other words, from boats to board members to budgets to buildings!  *
What neighborhoods or parks of NYC do believe are underserved and in need  HarborLAB's services? *
What partnerships and alliances (schools, organizations, public servants and agencies, etc.) could you help bring to HarborLAB in 2023?  *
What new funding sources (small local businesses, corporate sponsors, foundation grants, public financing, etc.) could you help bring to HarborLAB in 2023?  *
"Representation matters." In the context of HarborLAB, what does this mean to you and how could we improve things?  *
HarborLAB could continue under fiscal sponsorship, but we would like to progress in 2023 in one of two directions:

1) Integration into a larger DEI Green STEM (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) organization or college/university. We would become a program of another entity and therefore likely not govern ourselves. We would trade independence for the security of a larger affiliation. Finding a larger organization that shares our mission and values would be critical. 

2) Establishing ourselves as a fully independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This would allow us to keep the funds we raise, rather than paying service fees to a fiscal sponsor. We would also have more freedom, governing ourselves entirely within the law, rather than complying with the restrictions of the fiscal sponsor. We would have to do more of our own administration and therefore need a more active admin volunteer base and a more active fundraising and admin board. 

In either scenario, it would be ideal to have some paid full-time staff. 

 Which do you prefer and why?
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What kind of training/instruction would you join? Please choose more than one if more than one applies.  *
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How many hours would you commit to this training? *
How many days per month can you help HarborLAB as a volunteer between May and October 2023? *
What days are best for you to help HarborLAB in person? Please choose more than one if more than one applies.  *
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What kinds of administrative and business management help could you provide HarborLAB? *
At what kind of meetings could you represent HarborLAB (Community Board, with agencies and partners, developers, etc.)? *
Please share any other thoughts you might have to strengthen HarborLAB as a community of people who share a mission.  *
How could HarborLAB improve your experience as a volunteer? This can be basic (preparation, scheduling) or thoughts about engagement or mission-level matters. Whatever might reward you more.  *
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