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The Virtual Volunteering Project is happy to work with you to prepare stories about online volunteering activities, and to provide you with contact information for organizations involving online volunteers, online volunteers themselves, and others involved with this project.

Contact Sarah Jane Rehnborg, the Project supervisor, by e-mail at rehnborg@mail.utexas.edu, or by phone at 512-495-7616 (in Austin, Texas).

If you do write a story on the Virtual Volunteering Project or on virtual volunteering activities by any organizations, we respectfully request for a copy of the resulting article; a copy of the actual publication is preferred. Send the article to:

The Virtual Volunteering Project
P.O. Box 152473
Austin, TX 78715-2473

 
For the purposes of articles about the Virtual Volunteering Project or online volunteering in general, we suggest your reading of the following:

• More about virtually volunteering
  Examples of how agencies can (and do!) involve volunteers via the Internet, and benefits of using the Internet to find and involve volunteers

• About the Virtual Volunteering Project
  Why this project was started, the people behind it, contact information, guidelines on how to collaborate with this Project, and information on current activities and future plans.

• Virtual volunteering resources

  For agencies: step-by-step details on setting up and managing a virtual volunteering program, details on how this Project can help an agency, and an index of online resources for volunteer managers to with on or offline service-related issues.

  For volunteers: advice for those who want to volunteer virtually, from how to find an opportunity to how to make sure you are ready to volunteer virtually.

 
Biographies of Jayne and the rest of the VV Project Team, including advisors, interns and online volunteers, and contact information for everyone, is available here on our Web site. You may contact any of these Team members for the purpose of writing an article on virtual volunteering, but please cc Jayne on initial correspondance (so she knows they have been contacted).

 
Finding organizations
that have virtual volunteering programs

You can see a list of more than 100 organizations that have engaged volunteers virtually, and descriptions of these programs, here on our Web site. This list also includes organizations who have supported the VV Project with advice and expertise. Feel free to contact any of these organizations about their virtual opportunities, particularly the VV Project Affiliates, but please cc Jayne on initial correspondance (so she knows they have been contacted).

We also offer a list of examples of experiences involving online volunteers and youth with disabilities, highlights of how volunteers and youth with disabilities are interacting with others via Cyberspace, to give you an idea of the limitless possibilities and benefits of virtual volunteering.