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

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi mike

I will make this a high priority tonight or tomorow morning

Any thoughts on local (ie in a school opportuntoes) bs sugar labs as a  
global cyber entity?

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Caroline Meeks
617-395-7966


On Jun 20, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>>> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
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