Grassroots.org
Exciting Worldwide Volunteer Week opportunities are plentiful. However, finding specific projects for Sun employee volunteers to donate specific engineering skills can be more difficult. Grassroots.org is among a growing number of organizations that enable coders to apply their skills to non-profits.
Grassroots.org has over 1000 member organizations working on issues ranging from voter registration to AIDS awareness to homelessness prevention. Most of our organizations have little to no web presence. Grassroots mission is to change that!
A talented and dedicated web designer is critical to give these
websites the usability and creative voice that each nonprofit business
requires. Incorporating the greatest and most appropriate tools is
essential in giving these groups the online platform they need. For
instance, the greatest trend in nonprofits today is online fundraising.
Making a website for these organizations not only brings them a step
into the future but gives them a chance to really change the world.
Sura Hart, Grassroots Outreach Coordinator, recently created a fantastic Volunteer Bulletin Board to share opportunities for volunteers to help non-profits establish a web-presence.
If you're a Sun employee who's got the skills, get a small group together to make one of these projects your Worldwide Volunteer Week project.
Thank you very much for posting this opportunity! We are super excited to participate in International Volunteer Week.
As you mentioned above, we have over 1000 members in the U.S. and Canada working to make the world a better place. By helping these member charities to establish a web presence, our volunteers help them to grow...which translates into more needy served, more children educated--more more good done all around the world.
Thanks in advance to employees who chose to volunteer with our organization. It will make a huge difference in the lives of the folks who run our member charities--and even more so, into the lives of those they serve.
Posted by Katie Winterbottom on April 08, 2008 at 02:56 PM PDT #