Woohoo, we actually got a new website design up and running with more microvolunteer actions, new video, improved actions tracker and more info on the microvolunteering arena. Anyway, have a browse around and see if it gets your juices flowing.
As part of the roll out of the new website, we introduced a new project as well. It’s called Help From Holiday and is an attempt to encourage people to think about benefitting the countries they visit Before, During and After their holiday. You can now microvolunteer in your swimwear, and no excuses will be accepted.
Vinspired, UK’s national youth volunteering network, is piloting an employee volunteering project called Volunteering Works. As part of the scheme, they’re going to be incorporating microvolunteering into this project. This is a new direction for them, as the type of microvolunteering that Help From Home promotes has never been tried out in an employee volunteering environment before. Fingers crossed, it get the thumbs up, so to speak.
Help From Home got a whole article to itself on The Crowdsourcing Gazette UK during November. Thanks to Ramon from the Crowdsourcing Gazette who composed a splendiferous piece on us, who explained to us that he’s using the article to segue his way into creating more pieces about the microvolunteering arena.
Susan J Ellis of Energize, and who is very respected person on the global volunteering arena gave a seminar a few weeks ago. She was talking about the trends in volunteering and went on to say that “...the trend towards short-term volunteering, from the weekend or one day warrior to the microvolunteer, is no longer a trend, but a fact.” Couldn’t agree more!
Til next time
