Setting Up and Managing a Virtual Volunteering Program
Impact Online's information on virtual volunteering is geared to organizations who already understand the basics of volunteer management, and how to work with volunteers effectively in traditional, face-to-face settings. The Impact Online site does not have information to teach the fundamentals of volunteer management. Our list of Other Online Resources for Volunteer Managers has links to sites that provide information on the basics of volunteer management.
Finding and Involving Technical Assistance Voluteers "Virtually"
The majority of organizations currently using volunteers via the Internet are using technical assistance volunteers. Impact Online has already gathered information from several such organizations regarding how they found such volunteers, and how they managed them. Impact Online also has worked with dozens of such volunteers for its own organization. This information is based on those firsthand experiences, as well as feedback from other organizations.
Based on our research and first-hand experiences, Impact Online has also developed these virtual volunteering-related resources:
- Benefits of using the Internet to find and involve volunteers
- Examples of ways an organization can involve volunteers via the Internet
- Marketing your organization's volunteer opportunities online
- Making email communications more effective
- Index of online resources for volunteer managers
- For volunteers: Dos and don'ts for technical assistance volunteers
- Impact Online's Virtual Volunteering home page
- What's new on Impact Online's Virtual Volunteering pages
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