More volunteer source oportunities <a href="http://serviceweek.mozilla.org/">http://serviceweek.mozilla.org/</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/YTVideoVolunteers">http://www.youtube.com/YTVideoVolunteers</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Mike Lee <<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <div class="im">Meeks<<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Here is out volunteer match page: > <a href="http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org100683.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org100683.jsp</a> > > Doesn't look like its propagated to <a href="http://serve.gov" target="_blank">serve.gov</a> yet. > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mike Lee <<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>> 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. >> >> <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm" target="_blank">http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm</a> >> <a href="http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759" target="_blank">http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759</a> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Caroline Meeks<<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>> >> 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 <<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>> 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<<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > <a href="http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1" target="_blank">http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1</a> >> >> > >> >> > A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list? >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> >> > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> >> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Caroline Meeks >> > Solution Grove >> > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com >> > >> > 617-500-3488 - Office >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax >> > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax