Recruiting Volunteers
Finding volunteers and computers in the USA and Canada:
Online volunteer sources:
- http://www.volunteermatch.org/
- http://www.idealist.org/
- http://www.craigslist.org/about/cities.html
- http://www.techsoup.org/
- http://www.servenet.org/
Computers, sister-schools, “Internet Ambassadors”, and community service and online volunteers from local public school districts.
You can post your activities in internal newsletters of major employers.
Computers and community service and online and onsite volunteers from Universities and fraternities – our Seattle office has been successful in recruiting from there.
In the USA, volunteers from local group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers – if you want some contacts and/or help – please send an e-mail to Barry Wick: bwick@worldcomputerexchange.org
Computers from local US General Services Administration – they gave in Boston and the Boston GSA office agreed to contact the other offices in 10 cities in the US.
Volunteers from local chapter of Asha for Education – you can see if your city has an Asha office by going to their website at http://www.ashanet.org/ if you are not sure how to contact someone from Asha, you could contact Hitten Zaveri in New Haven at hitten.zaveri@yale.edu WCE has a partnership with Asha whereby WCE gives a credit of $5 toward WCE services for each working full computer set donated and $5 for each full computer set tested, inventories and palleted for a total of $10.
It is good to contact your local Rotary Club or Lions Club as they have helped us in some countries and have access to budgets for international programs.
Volunteers from local church, temple, or mosque.
Volunteers from local online postings coordinated by groups like United Way – our San Francisco office has been successful with this.
Computers from co-locating or other arrangement with local recycler – this is being experimented with by our Seattle office.
City Year is located in many of your cities. They are having their annual ServiceThon on October 25 so this would be a great day to get your inventory completed and your monitors tested and bubble wrapped! You can see if your city is one of their on their website at www.CityYear.org or you can click on your city if it appears in their list like the one below:
