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Help From Home Newsletter - March 2010 |
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IN THIS ISSUE: • New sites added • Sites omitted
• Actions listed • Quick links • 10 second free donation
NEWS TIDBITS:
• One of the Directors of Volunteering England is going to show HFH to some consultants who are working on a UK government project that are looking at social networking ideas.
• Urbantastic.com, a Canadian micro volunteer website closing down. Now redirecting traffic to HFH.
• Charity CHAMPS is building a web community that acts like a loyalty program to develop socially responsible attitudes in youth through microphilanthropy. They now want to include HFH into their avatar driven vision.
• Added a new webpage entitled 'Helping The Housebound' in response to a growing interest from orgs that care for disabled or disadvantaged people.
• Added a 'Cheat Sheet' to the Volunteer Centre webpage in response to queries from Volunteer Centres who just want an at-a-glance overview of some of the more fun / quirkier micro actions featured on HFH
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NEW SITES ADDED Heartfelt Angels - HeartFelt Angels is a non-profit organization of volunteers that make handmade baby items for area hospitals to give to parents in need. Items such as gowns, hats, booties - preemie and newborn; angel ornaments, burial items, sweater sets, etc. are all made. The Bike Station - Rather than chucking it away, donate your unwanted or old bike and accessories so that it can be refurbished and re-used by someone else. House collection service available in certain parts of Scotland. Local Cooling - Automatically optimizes your PC's power consumption by using a more effective power save mode. You will be able to see your savings in real-time translated to more environmental terms such as how many trees and gallons of oil you have saved. The Extraordinaries - In just a few minutes you can micro-volunteer for your favourite cause using your mobile or personal computer, like cataloguing images, fighting climate change, cleaning up coastal waters etc. EVP Maker - EVPmaker is an experimental software for the generation of acoustic "raw material" for recordings of paranormal voices on tape, also known as "Electronic Voice Phenomena" (EVP). If you record any EVPs, submit them to EVP researchers (do a Google search). 30 Minute Mentor - The 30 Minute Mentor is a program for anyone needing or wanting to do community service by making a positive difference in others lives. This is an on-line community service program that enables a person to help others from their own computer on their own time. eFreeko - Recycle your unwanted items for free on a national rather than a local basis. Operates mainly in the UK and you can either post items or have people visit your house to collect. Flikr: The Commons - One of the key goals of The Commons is to provide you with an opportunity to describe the worlds public photo collections and thus help to make these collections even richer from a knowledge point of view.
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Labour Behind The Label Yo Baby eVolunteer Green Blog Greenlinking MyGreenClick The Candle Game Warming Families Warm Up America National Parks Surfrider Foundation All sites omitted because they have either closed down or are no longer operational. |
FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION
Borderline Books collects overstocks and slightly damaged copies from publishers, bookshops and importers as well as second hand books from libraries. More importantly, from the point of view of Help From Home readers is that it also accepts books from individuals as well. There are several addresses to post your books to - some in Holland and some in the UK. They then redistribute these books free of charge to refugees newly settled in European towns and cities, women and children survivors of domestic violence, people in prison and those newly released from prison, victims of trafficking, undocumented women and others for whom the cost of a book simply cannot be fitted into the budget.
They are particularly interested in books in Arabic, Dari / Farsi, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish and Chinese as well as English and Dutch, although all languages are welcome. So far they have given away roughly 40,000 books to people and organizations who would not otherwise have been able to buy them, whilst in the UK, where they generally work on a much more local basis, they have donated around 5000 books to date.
All in all then, it's a great way to dispose of your books, knowing that they'll be put to good use for people who are not as advantaged as others are in life.
This action can be found here
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VOLUNTEER ACTIONS
LISTED 'Green' = 189 Advocacy = 121 |
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VOLUNTEER FOR HFH
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Link to us • Set up a Help From Home Volunteering Group • Distribute some 'Do Good' cards • Check out 'Our Vision' webpage
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SITES OF INTEREST
Changemakers is a community of action where people from all over the world collaborate on solutions. Issues are discussed, stories shared and encouragement given by mentors and advisors to solve the world’s most pressing social problems.
Camfed fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change. Their goal is to improve the lives of two million children by 2013. If you join their mailing list, a years supply of pencils for an African girl will be donated.
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CHARITY GAMES Play a fun trivia quiz and for every question you get right, The Experience Project will add to a fund which it will donate to the National Autism Association. The more you play, the more difference you'll make!
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