Volunteerism

I’ve been doing a lot of online searches lately on the topic of volunteerism. The first thing that struck my attention was the fact that many of my searches lead to Canadian sites such as Volunteer.ca and Volunteer Canada. Volunteer.ca has an amazing resource center with hundreds of listings relating to volunteerism. I was so impressed with this site, I ...

These last few days I’ve been pondering self-organizing action, virtual volunteers and word of mouth marketing. This line of thought had me re-visiting an idea I had about a blogger’s opportunity to raise funds for their cause of choice. Many volunteers have the aid of on-line donation portals, such as Kintera, where they can direct their friends, family members and ...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an eye opening article titled Volunteering Goes Virtual, describing how volunteers are finding new and highly productive ways to volunteer from their homes.  Volunteers are knitting blankets for mothers in need and even writing grants from the comfort of their own homes.  Volunteermatch.com has seen a sizable increase in the number of volunteers who are ...

Right after posting on "The Selfish Volunteer", I noticed David’s post on Self-organizing action. My interest piqued, I popped on over to Emergency Communities and found a very interesting quote that dovetails nicely with my previous post and even more so with Ed Duke’s post, The New Unaffiliated Volunteers. …in the midst of all this devastation, something beautiful happened. Volunteers, ...