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1. Helpful Guidance for Volunteers and Organizations 2. Helping Organizations Set up CyberVolunteer Matching Services 3. Virtual Advisory Committees: Finding opportunities that are unique for CyberVolunteering.
1. Helpful Guidance for Volunteers and Organizations: Take the example of the delivery of accounting services by a CyberVolunteer to a social service organization that needs help with keeping its books. We believe it might be useful to include pages on this website that describe for the social service organization the kind of services that a CyberVolunteer accountant might provide and what safeguards are necessary to make sure that the organization's financial information is secure. Likewise, our website could contain information for how a CyberVolunteer accountant might best provide services long distance to a social service organization, perhaps through a web service viewable by both the accountant and the organization. To be most useful, these pages should probably be written by a person who is very knowledgeable in the accounting field. WHAT WE NEED: We are seeking CyberVolunteers to write not only this material for accounting, but also for other CyberVolunteer fields as well. 2. Helping Organizations Set up CyberVolunteer Matching Services Our Institute for CyberVolunteering is interested in assisting alumni, professional, or civic organizations set up CyberVolunteer matching services on their own websites to encourage the creation of new CyberVolunteer opportunities and help their members find opportunities. For example, college alumni organizations like to create ways for their geographically-dispersed members to interact with other alumni and develop a closer attachment to their alma mater. Many alumni organizations already offer employment search services by which alumni seeking new employees can seek out candidates who are also alumni. Why shouldn't these same organizations encourage CyberVolunteering opportunity matching as well. WHAT WE NEED: We are seeking a CyberVolunteer to help us do the computer programming for a stand-alone matching program that we could provide free-of-charge to these organizations. We are also seeking CyberVolunteers to work with these organizations to get the program started. For example, do you know an organization that might be interested? 3. Virtual Advisory Committees: Finding Opportunities that are Unique for CyberVolunteering In most cases, CyberVolunteers can carry out functions that mirror the kinds of functions that are routinely delivered in face-to-face volunteering. Because these services can be provided without geographic or time boundaries, CyberVolunteering is a major addition to the world of volunteering. However, we are also looking for opportunities for volunteering that are unique and limited to CyberVolunteering because these kinds of opportunities can take on special meaning for the CyberVolunteering movement. One example we have thought of is the creation of Virtual Advisory Committees for social service organizations. Many social service projects or organizations would benefit from having an advisory committee made up of talented and interested individuals who can help the leaders of the project think through and solve problems. However, many times geographical constraints or lack of visibility or size of the project prevent project leaders from assembling such a face-to-face advisory committee. Here's where CyberVolunteering may play a unique role. Talented individuals could volunteer to be on a virtual committee that meets, as needed, by telephone or email or web. These volunteer advisory committee members could also be available on a one-on-one electronic communication basis if the project leaders need advice on a particular topic within the expertise of the advisory committee member. In fact, a single volunteer could serve on several advisory committees because the time-commitment to a virtual committee is potentially much less than to a face-to-face committee. WHAT WE NEED: We are seeking help in figuring out how we might implement the virtual advisory committee concept and also other ideas where volunteer opportunities would be unique to CyberVolunteering. Photo by FreeFoto.com |
Our Institute
for CyberVolunteering wants to expand its support for
CyberVolunteering far beyond what you see so far on this site.
Maybe you can help us with your ideas and volunteer efforts.
Here are three of our current ideas for expansion: