The Extraordinaries is a new service that aims to make it easy for volunteers to discover projects that have been sliced and diced into bite-sized pieces that can easily be done by lots of a people over their mobile phones within minutes. It’s called “crowdsourcing,” and it promises to add new potential to virtual volunteering.
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There’s a huge movement these days to help business leaders recognize that pro bono involvement — that is, volunteering the skills you do on your day job — can mean more than just legal work.
Ironically, this focus on going beyond law in some ways obscured the really great stuff that lawyers can contribute through pro [...]
So much of volunteer recruitment is about storytelling, I thought I’d draw attention to a VolunteerMatch partner we can all learn from.
OnceUponaSchool.org is a Web site dedicated to inspiring volunteers to get involved in new and innovative projects at public schools — especially literacy projects. The Web site was actually the result of a wish [...]
Did you know that ferrets were once banned as pets in lots of US states? Most states rolled back the regulation in the 1980s and 90s as ferrets grew in popularity as pets. But to this day, owning one makes you an outlaw in California.
Maybe their history ahead of popular trends has helped make so [...]
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