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Community Group NVD Registration Form 28 July 2010, 10.53
Community Group Registration Form
Community Group Registration Form
The aim of The National Day of Volunteering - is to encourage everyone in Ireland to give volunteering a go, to show that – even if i
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Corporate Application form - NDV 26 July 2010, 15.26
Corporate Volunteering Application Form
Are you interested in making a Difference in Your Community for the National Day of Volunteering but you don't know where to start? Let us know who you are, when you are availa
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National Day of Volunteering 26 July 2010, 14.05
The aim of The National Day of Volunteering - is to encourage everyone in Ireland to give volunteering a go, to show that – even if it’s only for a minute, an hour, a day – volunteering c
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South Dublin Volunteer Recruitment Fair 26 July 2010, 12.24
Active Citizenship Week 2010
28th September 2010
Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Dear Colleague
The South Dublin County Active Citizenship Week wi
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Register on line for Active Citizenship Week! 16 July 2010, 11.31
The South Dublin County Active Citizenship Week takes place from 27th September to 1st October.
The aim of Active Citizenship Week is to promote and celebrate the wonderful contribution made by our citizens to the daily
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Below is a list containing some examples of Virtual Volunteering work.
* Technical assistance provided by online volunteers to staff or other volunteers at an agency. Such assistance usually involves task or objective-based assignments, or the volunteer providing a particular expertise to the agency. This would include volunteers who work off-site, using a computer and the Internet. * Conducting online research: finding information to use in an agency's upcoming grant proposal or newsletter, gathering information on a particular government program or legislation that could affect an agency's clients, gathering web site addresses of similarly-focused organisations, using online phone books and web sites to update contact information for a database, etc. * Providing professional consulting expertise: answering an agency's questions regarding human resources, accounting, management or legal issues, writing a speech, developing a strategic plan for a particular department, setting up a video conferencing event, providing industrial designs, etc. * Helping with advocacy: posting information to appropriate online communities (newsgroups, lists, etc.), preparing legislative alerts to be sent via e-mail, keeping track of legislation that could affect an agency's clients, etc. * Translating a document into another language. * Providing multimedia expertise, such as preparing a PowerPoint, Hypercard, QuickTime or other computer-based presentation * Designing an agency's newsletter or brochure, or copy editing an agency's publication or proposal * Proofreading drafts of paper and online publications * Researching and writing articles for brochures, newsletters, web sites, etc. * Designing a logo for an agency or program, or filling other illustration needs * Preparing information for an agency's World Wide Web site * Writing a technology plan, designing a marketing strategy, or directing other types of organisational planning and outreach * Making sure a Web site is accessible for people with disabilities * Registering an agency's World Wide Web home page and other appropriate pages with online search engines, directories and "What's New" sites * Designing a database system using an agency's in-house database software (FileMaker Pro, Access, Lotus Approach, etc.) * Providing advanced Web site programming (creating automated forms, interactive areas, e-commerce functions, etc.) * Doing regular searches for news articles relating to an organisation or a particular topic * Volunteer management assistance: managing other volunteers in the aforementioned activities, providing an online orientation to all volunteers with Internet access (whether or not they are onsite or online volunteers), surveying volunteers via e-mail about their experiences with an agency or program, keeping track of volunteer hours, inputting volunteer opportunities into online databanks, etc. |