Action Without Borders
(formerly the Contact Center Network)
http://www.idealist.org
A well-traveled place to post and find volunteer opportunities, including virtual
volunteering opportunities, and for volunteers to post about themselves. Offers
many other nonprofit resources as well.
Amigos de las Americas
http://www.amigoslink.org
Sponsors volunteers, primarily between the ages of 16 - 25, in public health and
environmental projects in Mexico and Central and South America.
Amizade
http://amizade.org
Not-for-profit organization with programs that offer a mix of community service
and recreation which provide volunteers the opportunity to participate first hand
in the culture of the region. Past projects have included building a vocational
training center for street children on the Amazon, building additional rooms onto
a health clinic in the Bolivian Andes, and doing historic preservation and environmental
cleanup in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Volunteers need no special skills, just
a willingness to help.
Break Away: the Alternative Break Collection
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/breakaway
National non-profit organization based at Vanderbilt University, promoting service
on the local, regional, national, and international levels through break-oriented
programs which immerse students in often vastly different cultures, heightens
social awareness, and advocates life-long social action. Break Away promotes alternative
break programs through student training, technical assistance, volunteer placement,
and publications.
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
http://www.cnvs.org/
A non-profit organization representing more than 180 domestic and international
volunteer programs. Learn about the different opportunities CNVS promotes for
these programs through the RESPONSE directory.
Charity Village Volunteer Bulletin Board
http://www.charityvillage.com/charityvillage/volbb.html
Canadian registered charities and Canadian public service agencies needing volunteers
may put a notice on the Charity Village Bulletin Board without charge.
City Cares
http://www.citycares.org/
Local Cares organizations were formed with the goal to make volunteering possible
for even the busiest individual. In cities large and small, 22 Cares groups have
been established, and four more are currently being formed.
CitySearch
http://www.citysearch.com
A for-profit company creating Web-based community guides for selected cities in
the U.S. (and expanding to other countries as well). If your organization is in
a CitySearch city and involves a large number of volunteers, you can post your
volunteer opportunities on the CitySearch Web site for your area, and have a link
from CitySearch to your own Web site (as applicable).
Community Action Network
http://www.getinvolved.net/
Another place to post volunteer opportunities, including online opportunities,
or to post volunteer interests. Presented by Samaritan
Software.
CommunityService.com
http://www.communityservice.com
A nonprofit organization based in New York offering an online database of volunteering
opportunities (it features opportunities listed on many of the services listed
on the page you are reading now). The database includes online opportunities (e-volunteering)
for other organizations. This site also offers a place for volunteers to register
their expertise.
COOL (Campus Outreach Opportunity League)
http://www.COOL2SERVE.org/
National non-profit that helps college students start, strengthen and expand their
community service programs. The COOL Web site lists to even more organizations
that can help students to get involved in improving their communities and the
environment.
Do Something
http://www.dosomething.org
A national nonprofit organization that encourages young people to help build their
communities. Organizer of The Kindness
& Justice Challenge, a nationwide two-week "character education" and community
service effort in January, and the organizer of Webstock96.
4laborsoflove.org
http://4laborsoflove.org
For volunteers to list their skills, and for agencies to list volunteer opportunities.
Give Five
http://www.independentsector.org/give5/givefive.html
Works raise public awareness about the important role that giving and volunteering
play in our communities. You might have seen Give Five public service announcements
in the newspaper, on TV, or heard them on the radio. The Web site includes Ten
Tips for Volunteers, Selecting an Organization to Help, and general information
about volunteerism.
Global Service Corps
http://www.globalservicecorps.org
Offers short-term (2-4 weeks), long-term (2-6 months) and college internship programs
in Tanzania and Thailand. These volunteer programs target three primary project
areas: HIV/AIDS education, Environment, and English language education.
GuideStar
http://nonprofit.guidestar.org
An initiative of Philanthropic Research, whose mission is to provide information
about charities to donors and others. In addition to its information to help donors
of both money, equipment and time monitor the programs and performance of charities,
Guidestar also features a "classifieds" section of volunteer opportunities, including
virtual opportunities, at agencies around the U.S.:
Impact Online (& VolunteerMatch)
http://www.impactonline.org/
A nonprofit organization online since 1994. It's Web site is an excellent place
for agencies to post volunteer
opportunities (VolunteerMatch/CityMatch), including virtual
volunteering opportunities. Potential volunteers can use the site to find
volunteer opportunities (VolunteerMatch/CityMatch).
InterAction: The American Council for Voluntary International Action
http://www.interaction.org/jobs.html
Nation's largest coalition of international development, disaster relief and refugee
assistance agencies. Members include more than 150 US-based non-profit organizations.
InterAction was formed in 1984 from the merger of the American Council of Voluntary
Agencies for Foreign Service and Private Agencies in International Development.
InterAction offers Global Work , a publication with 98 pages of opportunities
with 68 international relief and development agencies in 120 countries, including
the United States.
http://www.interaction.org/pub/gw2000.html
Interaction also offers online its Guide
to Appropriate Giving and Volunteerism, at http://www.interaction.org/disaster/guide.html
Make A Difference Day
http://www.usaweekend.com/diffday/
Each October, sponsored by USA Weekend. Includes a database of volunteer opportunities
for Make A Difference Day each Fall.
Netday
http://www.netday.org
Effort by a partnership among volunteers and corporations to wire schools in the
U.S.A. to the Internet.
Opportunities and Information for Volunteers
http://nonprofit.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa072298.htm
Another good list of links to web-based databases of volunteering opportunities,
by Stan Hutton and About.com, an online publisher.
Peace Corps
http://www.peacecorps.gov/home.html
Begun by the Kennedy administration in 1961, the Peace Corps places volunteers
from the United States into developing countries to help citizens with education,
environment, health, business, agriculture and other projects. Former and returning
Peace Corps volunteers can also participate in the new Crisis Corps, providing
short-term assistance to countries that have experienced natural disasters or
a humanitarian crisis.
POSH Corps
http://www.posh.org
People Organized and Striving for Harmony. The Corps says it supports volunteers
with a $2,000 POSH Public Service Award and free database services for volunteers
to track and document their service. WARNING: this site is very graphic and java
intensive; you will need a very high-end computer and high speed Internet access
for this site.
ServeNet
http://www.servenet.org
or
http://www.volunteernow.com
A place to post volunteer opportunities, or to post volunteer interests. Opportunities
are tied to the challenges of America's Promise.
Service Civil International - USA Branch
http://www.sci-ivs.org
Founded in the 1920s, SCI has 33 branches and groups in Europe and Asia, and approximately
5,000 volunteers active in 50 countries. SCI has links with many other organizations,
worldwide, and holds consultative status with the United Nations. The US branch
web site promotes both short term (two-week) and long term (three to 12 month)
assignments.
Shine!
http://www.shine.com
This is the latest service offering an online database of volunteering opportunities.
Operated by charitychannel.com
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America)
http://www.friendsofvista.org/
Now part of the AmeriCorps national service program, VISTA members take on long-term
community-related projects, many of them technology focused, and receive a small
stipend. The "Friends of VISTA" web site has a listing of VISTA opportunities
all over the U.S.
Volunteer Canada
http://www.volunteer.ca/
Operates the new Volunteer Opportunities
Exchange (VOE)
Volunteering Outdoors in Parks and Wilderness Areas
http://www.serviceleader.org/advice/outdoors.html
Love being outside? There are a variety of volunteering opportunities for those
who love the outdoors. This is a comprehensive index of web sites offering information
about volunteering outdoors in parks and wilderness areas in the U.S.
Volunteers Solutions
http://www.volunteersolutions.org
A Boston-based nonprofit hosting a database of volunteer opportunities in selected
cities in the U.S. (Austin, Boston, Detroit, Omaha, San Francisco Bay Area and
Los Angeles).
Volunteers of America
http://www.voa.org/tier2_ka.cfm?folder_id=181
49 community-based service organizations throughout the U.S. offer more than 160
different programs that help people including children, youth, the elderly, families
in crisis, the homeless, people with disabilities or mental illness, and ex-offenders
returning to society.
VolunteerWeb
http://www.epicbc.com/volunteer/
Another place to post volunteer opportunities online, with some general information
about volunteerism. By Epic Productions.
