How to Start a WCE Chapter
Toolkit for WCE Chapters
The charge of each local WCE Chapter is to recruit funds, sister-schools, press, volunteers, and computers to support the Partner organisations of World Computer Exchange. Within this chapter structure, volunteers can also help with other WCE volunteer roles.
The Board of Directors of WCE (international) or of an affiliate like WCE-Canada approves of new offices based on the criteria for approval and initial steps.
Please contact us at chapters@worldcomputerexchange.org if you are interested in helping with an existing office or in forming a new chapter.
The following are resources to help you in developing a WCE chapter:
Sample materials to help you conduct a public computer-gathering event:
- Summary of public computer donating event
- Oak Island, North Carolina Poster
for Jauary 2005 event (pdf file) - Oak Island, North Carolina Advertisement
for July 2003 event - Oak Island Instructions - web page for those responding to the ad
- How to "palletize"
Roles:
- Role of WCE offices
- Role of a WCE Steering Committee
- Role of a WCE Steering Committee Chair
- Role of a WCE Coordinator
- Volunteer Roles within WCE Offices
- Role of Online support volunteers
- Organisational chart (Word file)
Chapter Contacts, Start-up, & Funding Ideas:
- Ideas for setting-up a WCE Chapter
- Coordinator FAQs
- Current contacts at WCE chapters and representatives
- Corporate sponsorship request (Word)
- Individual sponsorship request letter (Word)
- Proposal for funding to establish a WCE chapter (Word file)
- Reimbursement expense report for pre-approved expenses (Word file)
Recruitment tools:
- Letter requesting computer donations for use by WCE offices (Word file)
- 'About WCE' promo summary for use by WCE offices (Word file)
- WCE promo brochure for use by WCE offices (Word file)
- Ideas for Recruiting Volunteers
- Ideas for how community service programs can help WCE offices
Please remember to report your inventory to Pamela Cooney on the last day of each month. Please include contact information for any donor who gives more than 20 computer sets in a given calendar year - so we can report to the IRS in the US and to Industry Canada.
