Here is out volunteer match page: http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org100683.jsp
Doesn't look like its propagated to serve.gov yet. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mike Lee <[email protected]> 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. > > http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm > http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759 > > Mike > > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Caroline Meeks<[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > > http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1 > >> > > >> > A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list? > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > -- > > Caroline Meeks > > Solution Grove > > [email protected] > > > > 617-500-3488 - Office > > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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