These are online guidelines by other organizations for their volunteers, representing an array of volunteer areas.

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  Community Workers' Handbooks
  Community empowerment, management and development resources to support volunteers of Seattle Community Network (SCN). Includes:
  • Handbook for Mobilizers (principles and methods for strengthening a community)
  • Handbook for Generating Wealth (principles and a method for fighting causes of poverty, including tips for starting and sustaining a micro-enterprise)
  • Handbook of Monitoring (sample forms, tips for writing reports, measuring success, etc.)
  • Training modules in community empowerment, community mobilization, project management and design, obtaining group decisions, awareness raising and gender balance, identifying community resources, and more
  • The entire Community Management and Development (CMP) Training Curriculum

• Master Internet Volunteer^SM Program
  An online educational program designed to train volunteers to help other people in their communities with the Internet and related technical issues. The program was created by the University of Minnesota Extension Service as a way to educate community volunteers in the concepts and applications of the Internet, and the web site helps train these volunteers to provide this assistance. These community volunteers are then able to more effectively assist others with applications of the Internet. Master Internet VolunteersSM work with University of Minnesota Extension Service county offices and directly with community organizations to help others learn and make effective use of the Internet. The University of Minnesota Extension Service provides this training in exchange for volunteer time, including:
  • Staffing public access Internet computers at University of Minnesota Extension Service offices, libraries and other locations.
  • Developing web pages for community organizations.
  • Giving demonstrations for the public.
  • Writing articles for local newspapers.
  • Teaching community education classes.
  • Working with youth, seniors, or special interest groups to help them use the Internet.

• National Service Resource Center (NSRC)
  NSRC is a training and technical assistance provider to programs funded by the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps, VISTA, SeniorCorps, etc.). Its web site supports these volunteers in their work, and includes a database for effective practices (Epicenter), and an extensive online resource library that includes volunteer support materials for its volunteers, such as
  • Growing and Sustaining a School-Wide Tutoring Program
  • Making an Impact on Out-of-School Time
  • Seniors for Schools: Effective Practices Guidebook
  • Students Teaching Students: A Handbook for Cross-Age Tutoring

• NetDay How-To Guide Index
  NetDay sponsors one-day, all-volunteer efforts to build appropriate wiring infrastructure in schools so they can access the Internet. The NetDay How-To Guide provides everything volunteers need to undertake these one-day events successfully
  • Tips for Local Organizing
  • State and Local Support: Getting Partners on Board
  • Planning for NetDay
  • Marketing NetDay to Businesses and Other Sponsors
  • What NetDay Sponsors Can Do
  • Sample NetDay Advertisements
  • NetDay Public Relations Essentials
  • Technical Issues
  • The NetDay Kit
  • Site Survey and Wiring Plan
  • Cable Installation and Sample Wiring Plan
  • Checklist for Technicians
  • Non-Technical Volunteers
  • Suggested Tools and Supplies
  • Numerous Checklists

• Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) Understanding Technology Series
  VITA places volunteers in developing countries to provide access to information and knowledge, strengthen local institutions and introduce improved technologies. Its areas of assistance include (but is not limited to) agriculture, business and industry, energy, environment, food processing and management, health and medicine, housing, information and communication, transportation, water supply and sanitation. VITA technical papers are used by volunteers as guidelines in selecting technologies suitable to specific situations. Charts, diagrams, graphs, and the like are not included in these online, text-only versions.

• World Links for Development (WorLD) Resource Materials
  The World Links for Development (WorLD) program provides Internet connectivity and training for teachers, teacher trainers and students in developing countries in the use of technology in education. WorLD then links students and teachers in secondary schools in developing countries with schools in industrialized countries for collaborative learning via the Internet. The WorLD training materials help familiarize volunteers and other participants with how the Internet to enhance education programs, and includes
  • building a collaborative web project
  • reference library
  • a guide to conducting research on the Internet
  • technology resources (Internet basics, using e-mail and browsers,
  • school technology planning, wiring/cabling a school, evaluating
  • donations, Internet tools, connectivity, networking, Year 2000
  • issues, a list of free stuff and other technical advice and support.