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Volunteer roles within WCE Chapter

Each Chapter is guided by a Steering Committee whose names are listed on the WCE website and who meet quarterly to guide the operations of WCE in their city. The operations of each Chapter are led by a Coordinator who regularly reports to the Chair of the Steering Committee and to the WCE President. The Coordinator updates the language for their website and reports on their inventory to the WCE Operations Director at the end of each month.

Each WCE Chapter may have as many people in each team as they wish. Each Chapter will identify to the Operations Director one lead person in each of the following 5 roles who will join via a Yahoogroup with volunteers in these same positions in other WCE offices and then to communicate back to the other volunteers in his or her Chapter. This will allow each of the 12 WCE Chapters to better understand and influence the full picture of WCE. The 12 lead people in each of the five Chapter roles may decide to open their respective Yahoogroup up to all of those who work in this role.

  1. Computer Donations: Assist your Coordinator in seeking donations of used computers from the 200 largest corporations, universities, and nonprofits in your city. WCE provides solicitation letter for companies and posts lists of donating companies on the WCE website.
  2. Inventory/Test/Pack: Assist your Coordinator in testing, inventorying, and packing the computers and to sort and pack the peripherals and software. They will then help load this equipment into the containers via pallets or manually. The inventory needs to be sent to the Operations Director at the end of each month and include whether the computer is Pentium 4 or 3 and whether each has a CD ROM, sound card, and modem.
  3. Schools/Universities: Assist your Coordinator in recruiting the community service involvement of universities and high schools in your city. These students will be asked to fill the role described in “Community Service Options” on our website. These recruiters are asked to watch for universities that might be interested in playing a more active role in distance education or training in a region of the developing world. Each volunteer in this role in encouraged to provide samples of useful models and approaches to the WCE Operations Director for use in developing training materials, best-practices or how-to manual, posting on the website and/or sharing with others in this same position.
  4. Marketing/Events: Assist your Coordinator by guiding the public relations or other aspects around holding a public computer donation event primarily focused on increasing individual computer donations in your city and generating press coverage that will encourage local companies to donate. Sample PSA, announcements, flyers & outlines are posted on our website.
  5. Fund Raising: Assist your Coordinator by guiding the fund raising from individuals and local non-national companies and foundations and by alerting the President as to national foundations and corporations in their respective cities that might be appropriate for WCE to approach.