A Day of Service
by Will Robinson
Category: Digital Influence
As part of today’s National Day of Service honoring Martin Luther King’s legacy I wanted to share a few ways you could find opportunities to serve throughout the year. Here are a few that come highly recommended:
Serve.gov helps you not only find volunteer opportunities in your community, but also create your own. It’s powered by All For Good - a network of technology, marketing, academic and non-profit professionals.
Volunteer Match has connected millions of volunteers to over 74,000 non-profits since 1994.
Do Something focuses on activating teens (led by teens) in their community.
Apathy is Boring is a Canadian-based project using art, media and technology to encourage active citizenry.
Social Actions aggregates service opportunities from over 60 “action sources” like Policy Pitch and DonorsChoose.
You can also follow iVolunteer on Twitter, which offers daily updates on good places to volunteer in cities.
What’s missing? Please add a comment below and tell us about your favorite online volunteer resource.
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January 18th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Greater DC Cares is a great organization focused on mobilizing volunteers to make a real impact on the Greater Washington, DC area (including Virginia and Maryland). Once you go through orientation you can volunteer as little or as much as you would like. The opportunities range from what they call “traditional volunteering” (painting and gardening) to mentoring and soup kitchen support. They even offer training courses for individuals interested in becoming a board member of DC Cares or other non-profits.
http://www.dc-cares.org/default.html
January 19th, 2010 at 5:16 am
Online Volunteering Technology, Tools and Tips by Randy Tyler http://news.randytyler.org
January 19th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Will, thank you for including Social Actions among so many great resources, and for all you do to encourage us to direct our time and attention to the ‘greater good’
Christine
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:41 am
Once you go through orientation you can volunteer as little or as much as you would like. The opportunities range from what they call “traditional volunteering” (painting and gardening) to mentoring and soup kitchen support.