Volunteering 2 articles

113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Connected Volunteering

last updated over 2 years ago, 1 Comment

Very late on this one, but better late than never. Another good initiative from Obama administration - http://www.serve.gov/ This certainly underlines the huge potential for using the internet for making it much easier for people to do good. Someone suggested to me at a recent event the idea of a website that offered real-time volunteering - what I mean is if you find yourself with a spare hour or two, you could go to a website and find a local organisation that could use a hand for...

posted in Volunteering

1 molly tschang

NYC Service and the Penny Harvest

last updated over 2 years ago, 0 Comments

  On April 20, NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced NYC Service, to promote a new era of service and volunteerism in New York City. What I find most compelling is that NYC Service aims to set a new standard for how cities can tap the power of their citizens to tackle their most pressing challenges.  In launching the plan, New York City has become the first major city to initiate a comprehensive local approach to supporting service and citizen engagement – building on the Bloom...

posted in New_York Volunteering