Calling all Volunteers!
Subscribe to the Blog RSS FeedRemember earlier this year when the US Census was conducted? There were posters on buses, TV commercials stressing how vital your participation was, even Dora the Explorer got in on the action. Well, we don't have a well-known bilingual cartoon promoting our cause (just this blog!) but we're launching a great initiative to increase access to service opportunities and we need YOU!
In the next month, we are launching a project that we are calling ServiceCensus. The ServiceCensus project aims to increase the number of volunteer opportunity postings available online.
Before we launch the ServiceCensus full-scale, we need to do our homework. The intern team has been running a Pre-Census outreach effort in the Boston area and connecting with organizations in the area to find out how they use online resource to connect with volunteers. So far we've received some great insight from these organizations! The idea is to take this knowledge and try to help improve awareness of the range of available opportunities as well as to improve the volunteer search experience.
But now we need your help ServiceNation! We need to hear the other side of the story from volunteers like YOU. So we're calling on volunteers from all over the country to fill out this form and clue us in on how you find volunteer opportunities. This part of the pre-census will provide us with great feedback so when we launch the full-scale ServiceCensus initiative we will be well-informed and able to create a great toolkit of resources for organizations across the country.
Click here to help us with this initiative and tell us what hunting for volunteer opportunities is really like! We'd love it if you could pass it along to your friends as well! We'll be sure to keep you posted as the ServiceCensus kicks off.
