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Aude-Olivia Dufour

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    really interesting articles, parlent de volunteermatch notamment
Daniel Benoni

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  • Virtual Volunteers - How to Recruit Online Volunteers For Nonprofit Fundraising
  • Most parent organizations, charities, teams, and other non-profits can always use as many volunteers and donors as they can get.Organizations have difficulty finding volunteers for a variety of reasons.
  • the smaller and more local the organization is, the smaller the number of potential volunteers there are available.
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  • a community soup kitchen will never be able to recruit as many volunteers that a national hunger relief charity will be able to.
  • smaller nonprofit organizations have the same needs that the larger ones have
  • fundraising, there is always a need for a fund-raising chairman, a person to do publicity, team leaders and members and the list goes on
  • virtual volunteers.-Volunteermatch.org -Networkforgood.org -Charityguide.org -icouldbe.org -Onlinevolunteering.org -Serviceleader.org -WorldVolunteerWeb.org -Youthxchange.net
  • For example, if you are in need of a graphic designer you might be able to find a virtual volunteer half-way across the country willing to design your fundraising promotional materials.
  • Managing virtual volunteers requires a person with good communication and computer skills.
Daniel Benoni

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boston volunteer opportunities

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Companies See Volunteering As a Benefit | Atlantic Philanthropies - 0 views

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  • She's been to Sri Lanka and South Africa as a participant in Accenture Development Partnerships, a program that sends employees to work on nonprofit projects in developing countries.
  • As more employees see volunteer work as a way to learn new skills or move their careers forward, volunteering has become a sort of corporate benefit.
  • For an annual fee between $5,000 and $50,000, companies can give their employees access to a VolunteerMatch list of 55,300 nonprofits seeking help. Nonprofits join for free.
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  • Field said one major attraction for companies is the chance to align their employee volunteer programs with the objective of their business.
  • Volunteer programs are tied efforts to retain two major employee groups, younger workers looking for work-life balance and ready-to-retire older workers who want to serve their communities,
  • Bramhall, 29 agreed the Development Partnerships program is a retention tool for Accenture.
  • Workers who are part of Gen Y say they want a job that lets them also exercise their personal values and beliefs, according to a study by Deloitte & Touche USA LLC. The study shows 62 percent of Gen Y respondents between the ages of 18 and 26 want to work for companies that give them a chance to use their skills to help a nonprofit.
  • Lupe Garcia, associate general counsel in the legal department at Gap, Inc. said her supervisors have recognized the fundraising and communication skills she developed in her volunteer work have increased her skills
  • Employees at Gap can spend up to five hours of paid time each month on a volunteer activity. If they spend 15 hours of their own time volunteering, Gap will give $150 to the organization, as well as matching any employee donations.
  • "An important driver in wanting to do this was really a desire to do something with my skills that had a broader impact, that had a deeply social impact," Coghlan said.
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