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tondue tondue
 
M$15 March 04, 2009 10:23 PM

What can I do online to connect/promote/attract potential volunteers to a children's orphanage in Thailand for Burmese refugees?

Right now, just posted on www.Idealist.org. Looking for volunteers who want to make a difference in any way...i.e. teaching English, help with building projects, grant writing, fundraising, etc.

http://baandada.org/volunteer/
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nadiraziz nadiraziz
 
 March 05, 2009 01:16 PM
Recruiting online volunteers calls for appealing to the intrinsic and unique value of this kind of service. . Online volunteering can be attractive to potential volunteers because of ease of entry. Applications and interviews can be done online, there is no commute, and volunteering can be done anyplace there is access to the Internet.

Volunteers can be young, mature, shy, homebound, male, female, people with disabilities, students, professionals, retired or unemployed.

According to ServiceLeader.org, marketing volunteer opportunities online offers many benefits for recruiting both face-to-face and online volunteers:

* It's effective, quick, easy, and doesn't require any additional costs.
* It's an excellent way to reach non-traditional volunteers, and populations that might be under-represented in an organization's volunteer ranks, such as seniors, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities.
* You can reach a very targeted group, such as a particular kind of professional or people in a specific geographic area.

An effective practice offers tag lines created by ServiceLeader.org for use in recruiting this diverse population and is excerpted from the article ""Volunteering at Your Fingertips" by Mary Merrill. A link to the article is provided here:

http://www.merrillassociates.net/topic/2004/10/volunteering-at-your-fingertips/

ServiceLeader.org developed the following tag lines to place on an organization's website to attract online or virtual volunteers:

* Don't just surf — volunteer!
* Volunteer in your bunny slippers!
* Wear your pajamas to work
* Do good from your desktop
* Click into action
* Surf and serve
* Click and serve
* Download good deeds
* Volunteers can do it — online
* Engage in a little mouse-to-mouse resuscitation
* Volunteer whenever you feel like it
* Nighttime, daytime, anytime is the right time to volunteer online
* Make a difference — virtually!

Hope this info helps!

http://bp3.blogger.com/_3FxR9IFvXgs/SAWG3g1KZgI/AAAAAAAABNg/oc04ZB5Ej_8/S1600-R/Struck+In+Traffic+logo+new.png

Also, check out this blog for effective recruitment of volunteers:
http://struckintraffic.blogspot.com/2008/02/smart-goals-attract-volunteers.html



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redgiraffe redgiraffe
 
March 04, 2009 11:11 PM
VolunteerMatch encourages all community service organizations to register on our site. The following organizations are welcome to join the VolunteerMatch community:

Organizations with 501(c) tax exempt status
Government entities within the United States, including public schools and libraries
Organizations with state-level tax exemption
Organizations fiscally sponsored by another organization with 501(c) status
Registered political campaigns
For-profit hospices, hospitals, long-term care facilities and schools
Organizations located outside of the US are welcome to register and post opportunities on VolunteerMatch. As we do not offer a formal international program, opportunities outside of the US will only be visible to a small percentage of VolunteerMatch users.

http://www.volunteermatch.org/?_kk=volunteering&_kt=f104d7b0-7643-4cac-9342-9b849f83aa38

Sponsored Links Online
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=adwords&hl=en-US&ltmpl=adwords&passive=true&ifr=false&alwf=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fadwords.google.com%2Fselect%2Fgaiaauth%3Fapt%3DNone%26ugl%3Dtrue&sourceid=awo

ORPHANAGE.ORG
Scroll to the bottom of the page it says Please add your orphanage web site below

http://www.orphanage.org/

I hope these help you :)

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263236 263236
 
March 04, 2009 11:21 PM
Check with Global Volunteers, 375 East Little Canada Road, St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA, (800) 487-1074, (651) 482-0915 fax
www.globalvolunteers.org | email@globalvolunteers.org

Maybe they can in some way help assist you.

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chrisholt chrisholt
 
March 04, 2009 11:24 PM
You can advertise the volunteer positions on idealist.org of course but here's a source of many others http://www.energizeinc.com/prof/volop.html and use twitter to get people to spread the message. You can offer to do a guest post on people's blogs, but promise to make each unique and not just copy and paste i.e I would let you do a guest post on mine; but keep them informative and around 100 words with a link of course....thanks
Source(s):
blogging and thinking about it
www.intuitech.biz


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