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

[Mike Lee]

The listings that come up when searching education+boston in
VolunteerMatch, don't come up on Serve.gov. Not sure why.
VolunteerMatch does show listings in the D.C. area for example.

Mike


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Caroline
Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Here is out volunteer match page:
> http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org100683.jsp
>
> Doesn't look like its propagated to serve.gov yet.
>
> On Sat, 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
>> >
>> > 617-500-3488 - Office
>> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
>> >
>
>
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>