[IAEP] Google sponsor of All for Good portal, matches volunteers with projects

[Mike Lee]

Caroline,

I do think you should be the person (or a backup) who registers Sugar
Labs as an organization in these systems. Since VolunteerMatch is the
largest opportunity aggregator in the U.S. with 57,000+ listings, I
recommend getting set up there with a free account. You'll need SL's
mission statement and EIN (tax I.D.). It takes 24 hours to get
approved. If you have time, I'd try to submit tonight to capitalize on
the big traffic spike that will happen from all the announcements next
week at the National Conference on Volunteerism and Service. A really
nice feature of VounteerMatch is that volunteers register too and
profile themselves. If there are people who have expressed in interest
in education and technology, they will be sent an email alert about
any opportunities posted by SL. Serve.gov and AllforGood do not offer
this and because they are new, it's unclear who does the reviewing or
how long it takes to get listed. AllforGood powers Serve.gov and pulls
in from VolunteerMatch anyway.

Here is a good set of basic guidelines for writing volunteer
opportunity positions.

http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm
http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759

Mike



On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I want to list volunteer opportunities to help at the Gardner elementary and
> Lilla Fredrick Middle School.  Both these schools will be working with Sugar
> this summer and there are opportunities to work directly with the kids and
> Sugar as well as providing technical, writing, marketing and fundraising
> support.
>
> Let me know when you figure out how I should do this and how we should tie
> all the various local projects into the overall Sugar Labs umbrella.
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm on it. It just so happens I am working directly with this Google
>> team here in D.C. as part of my day job. Also, one of our Learning
>> Club members is an engineer on the project. It was a major deal that
>> AllforGood.org powers the administartion's Serve.gov site. More
>> announcements coming next week. Small world...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1
>> >
>> > A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list?
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>> > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>> >
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>
>
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