The weekend of May 2-3 across the U.S there will be 13 Relays For Life with an extra special component. These relays will offer a chance for people to volunteer to participate in our third cancer prevention study. CPS-3 is looking for 500,000 volunteers between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never had cancer.  Here’ s how our  ...

Do you Jott? Jott allows you to send an e-mail from someone simply by calling its Web site on your cellphone and dictating a message. Within minutes an e-mail goes out to that person and a copy is e-mailed to you. I’ve been using Jott since October and I like it. I use it primarily to e-mail myself with reminders, ...

At the National Volunteer Health Agency conference in Atlanta last week, one of the presentations dealt with Twitter, the micro-blog you can use to inform your friends of what you’re doing. Twitter is so new that those agencies in attendance still couldn’t figure out if it could help them in accomplishing their missions. If you’re wondering if Twitter can help ...

If you want to engage more people as volunteers, you must do two things. So says a panel of nonprofit execs composed of (left to right) David Neff, American Cancer Society; Ford Cochran, National Geographic; Patricia Goldman, March of Dimes; and Randal Moss, American Cancer Society. The two things you must do are to first  create opportunities for  your  volunteers, ...