Online/Virtual Volunteer Opportunities
Charity does begin at home...with your computer.
Calling all volunteers without frontiers! Please check out our Quick Guide to Online Volunteering. Just a few clicks can be the catalyst. The power to change the world is at your fingertips.
"Volunteers from all over the world are helping organizations that serve communities in developing countries - but without leaving their own communities. These online volunteers translate documents, write articles, research data, build web sites, mentor young people, design logos, and engage in many other projects to benefit organizations serving people in the developing world. Online volunteers are volunteers without frontiers." http://www.onlinevolunteering.org
Are you ready?
Links
United Nations Online Volunteering Program
http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/
By far, the most comprehensive database of virtual volunteering opportunities!
“Online Volunteering, an Internet service provided by United Nations Volunteers, connects development organizations with volunteers from around the world. Since its inception in 2000, Online Volunteers have supported - by completing more than 10,000 online assignments - some 800 organizations in developing countries in their mission to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. For development organizations, Online Volunteers present a tremendous and much-needed resource.
Online Volunteers have skills and expertise host organizations may not have, or that these organizations need to supplement the work of on-site volunteers. They may have sophisticated software or an active network an organization serving a developing country lacks. Online Volunteers help organizations stretch their on-site resources even further and to serve more clients.”
NABUUR
http://www.nabuur.com/
Nabuur.com’s mission
Nabuur.com’s mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbors via the Internet. And through these Neighbors to the huge reservoir of resources (knowledge, solutions, energy, creativity) that is available elsewhere.
Nabuur.com’s dream
Nabuur.com dreams of giving tens of thousands of communities in developing countries access to the resources they need to solve their problems.
There are a great many communities that would be capable of solving their own problems themselves. If only they had access to the right resources. Resources that are available elsewhere in the world: information, existing solutions, expertise, ideas, man power.
Nabuur.com brings communities in developing countries into direct contact with committed individuals worldwide who want to assist them. These virtual Neighbors can help by finding the resources needed by the community.”
Volunteer Match
Database with online volunteer opportunities organized by category
Pearls of Africa
A non-profit serving those with disabilities in Uganda
Interconnection
For those with website building skills, help an NGO or charity get connected online!
Articles and Information
Charities thrive with online volunteers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14515305/
Laurie Moy: Online volunteer goes on-site in Uganda
http://www.unv.org/infobase/voices/2001/01_11_30UGA_online_moy.htm
Service Leader
http://www.serviceleader.org/new/virtual/
Information on online volunteering
Myths About Online Volunteering
http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volunteer/ovmyths.html
If you have any questions, please contact our office at 217-581-6408 or email: volunteer@eiu.edu.
