NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoup.org - volunteers

A shout-out to a Nabuur project volunteer team

Romina — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:25:46 -0400

It's so easy to be proud of the NABUUR volunteers! Here's a little story about the Yoshinkel team...

Casting a ballot for Africa: Kabissa, The Hub, Anti-Genocide Community, Nabuur.com, and Maps 2.0

tobias — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:01:45 -0400

I voted today.

When evaluating projects, I considered the six net2 attributes and also tried to imagine how, if implemented, they would affect the lives of Africans - and in particular the struggles of African civil society organizations to serve the needs of their communities. The projects I chose seemed to me to offer the most revolutionary impact across Africa (and indeed across the world) in part because they make creative use of Web 2.0 to leverage their impact.

iMentor - iPower eMentoring Platform

asethupa — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:37:49 -0400

You Mean to tell me that a Technology Plan would avoid headaches?

WYSE Monkey — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:37:12 -0500

WOW! What a Difference a Week Makes! Where to start.... Since I began this blog and really launched my serious research into what WYSE needs to do to get our new web presence and WYSE Community Communication System (I just made that up...but I like it) in place, so much has fallen in my lap and I am energized and inspired. Day 1: I did an orientation with two new board interns who were recruited from RVLDP. http://www.lajcc.org/rvldp/index.html They are both women, although we tried to recruit men. These women are like walking/talking gifts to our organization. One of them has extensive web marketing and development experience and connections.

Cheerful Givers Plans Walk in Second Life

ibranz — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:19:33 -0500

In late February, Cheerful Givers will plan a walk in five locations to raise donations for children. Cheerful Giver's mission is "To brighten and celebrate the lives of families in need by providing toy-filled birthday gift bags for children who are homeless or living in poverty."

To learn more about this walk, please contact Dexterhaven Rucker in SL or Karen Kitchell at www.cheerfulgivers.org/contact.htm

Thanks for your support!

11/11 Orientation - Silicon Valley Commons

Leo Romero — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:28:50 -0500

The Commons is a free wiki-based online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help -- written, edited & produced by students and other volunteers in the valley.

Purpose

There are hundreds of organizations and thousands of people engaged in good work in the Valley. They feed our hungry, shelter our homeless, heal our sick, teach our children, protect our communities, give strength to the powerless, and hope to those who had lost all hope. Their stories are extraordinary, but often left untold. The principal mission of this project is to get their stories told.

Blogging for Managers of Volunteers

Britt Bravo — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:33:34 -0500

Volunteer Management guru Nan Hawthorne recently started a Volunteer Resources Management Clearinghouse blog. In a January 11th post she included a link to an article by Joan Perry from CharityChannel's Volunteer Management Review entitled, "Blogging. A Primer for Volunteer Program Managers."

Hands On Bay Area

MindfulOne — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:42:15 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

Hands On Bay Area

URL

www.handsonbayarea.org

Project Description

Hands On Bay Area Day is an event during which twelve-hundred volunteers at 51 community service projects across the Bay Area completed more than 7,000 hours of service valued at more than $120,000. This day is also the biggest fundraising event for Hands On Bay Area, when a large part of its budget is acquired through donations raised by volunteers. It is an organization that provides year-round service to the community.

Hands On Bay Area is a unique organization with a mission to mobilize communities to action. Many people find it difficult to volunteer for several reasons: trouble choosing what activity to do; the long-term commitment often required by organizations; and the number of hours organizations request weekly or monthly of volunteers.

What HOBA does is eliminate these barriers by acting as a liaison between volunteers and organizations and coordinating projects that make it easy to volunteer and help organizations meet their needs. They use an interactive database and email to do so.

Each month HOBA offers hundreds of meaningful volunteer projects coordinated with over 300 agencies. Hands On Bay Area projects each have a project leader who acts as the contact person for volunteers and ensures events go smoothly at the site. People interested in volunteering sign up for a one-hour orientation with HOBA, at which they learn about HOBA and how to sign up for projects. They are given an account on the website, and after it's activated, they can peruse the calendar and sign themselves up for projects. The volunteers control how often they do a project and how many projects they complete. HOBA simply asks that volunteers try to complete two projects annually.

Hands On Bay Area offers a wide array of projects: promoting literacy, maintaining parks, providing meals at homeless shelters, mentoring children, socializing with senior citizens, and much more. Volunteers often develop friendships as the encounter each other on various projects. There is also a team activity, where groups of people can sign up to participate in a set number of projects that focus on an impact area; by doing this, they deepen their knowledge about the issue and develop community together.