• Approximately how many of your online volunteers provide technical assistance to your staff or to other volunteers?
• Please describe the kinds of activities these technical assistance volunteers provide to your organization.

1. Earthwatch Institute
   • No response
   • No response

2. Pennsylvania American Institute of Architects (AIA)
   • 3
   • Volunteers learned html, scanning, some javascript, etc. and used their personal and business resources to support the volunteer web-based organization.
     We dedicated our own hard disk space, cgi's, and actual cash to the project. I have dedicated one of my 5 aol account names to this effort.

3. New Jersey Online:Community Connection
   • Its hard to put an exact number on this. I would like to say many people.
   • People who are benefiting from Community Connection Web sites often help other people and groups in their communities build their web sites.

4. Spiritual Gifts Ministries, Inc
   • n/a
   • No response

5. Shoreline Education for Awareness
   • 2
   • First, validation of information. A Professor at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology reviews the text we plan to use in brochures for accuracy.
     Second, translation into Spanish. The text of our best brochure will be available in Spanish next summer because a volunteer in mexico used e-mail to send me a translation.

6. Harambee Christian Family Center
   • 2
   • Help setting up web sites, registering domains, setting up email addresses, typing names into databases.

7. Safeguarding Our Children-United Mothers (SOC-UM)
   • 0
   • No response

8. Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
   • 4
   • Design web pages for inmates.
     Collect and distribute email for prosoners.
     Contacting media/attorneys to direct them to our site.
     Researching cases online.
     Typing webpages and penpal requests for us to post online.

9. YouthOrg UK
   • 12
   • Maintain Bulletin Boards
     Answer technical enquires
     Design graphics

10. Healthy Communities
    • 2
    • Online weekly newsletter, established website, research on possible funding opportunities, grant development, planning activities

11. Aspartame Survivors International
    • 1
    • How to subscribe /unsubscribe to list and assit with computer issues.

12. Journal of international Wildlife Law & Policy
    • 5
    • Our volunteers have helped us design a new web site (which will replace the one currently listed in our URL). We have approximately 10 volunteers working on this project, including a project coordinator.

13. AIAPaCOTE-Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment
    • About half of the 10-15 do so.
    • Research; reports on meetings and affairs in their parts of the state; calls and visits to state agencies, etc.; contact and monitor other professionals in related trades, such as Home Builders, Township Zoning officials; developing questionnaires and templates on issues; minutes of meetings; etc.

14. Martin Memorial Health Systems, Inc.
    • No response
    • No response

15. Gay Men's Health
    • 10
    • Web site design and development.
      Registration with search engines.
      Advice in development.
      Contacting other volunteers via email.
      Research via internet

16. Cyberspace seniors/InterAge cyberPals Classroom Project
    • 1
    • Maintain home page.
      Answer any questions adults or teachers may be having with sending or receiving e-mail

17. People Who Net
    • 30
    • Internet e-mail discussion list administration and web page design and maintenance.

18. IAM & The All One Foundation
    • No response
    • No response

19. Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
    • 20
    • Tasks listed above; hundreds more have offered to help and we are trying to organize our on-line support teams to utilize all the wonderful energy out there.

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