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The
Living Web's Top Picks of Organizations who
Advance Volunteering as a Whole
 VolunteerMatch utilizes the
power of the Internet to help individuals
nationwide find volunteer opportunities
posted by local nonprofit and public sector
organizations.
VolunteerMatch's powerful online
database allows volunteers to search
thousands of one-time and ongoing
opportunities by zip code, category, and
date. Then signup automatically by email for
those that fit their interest
and schedule. Contributing organizations
post their own opportunities, giving
volunteers easy access to an accurate and
diverse source of
activities including, walk-a-thons, beach
day cleanups, tutoring, home building, meal
deliveries and more.
VolunteerMatch is available
nationwide. It benefits from strong local
support in San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle,
Boston, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, New
York, and Los Angeles. The service is free
and powered by you!
 Action Without Borders
is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the sharing of ideas, information and
resources to help build a world where all
people can live free, dignified and
productive lives. We currently do this by:
Maintaining Idealist, the most comprehensive
directory of nonprofit and volunteering
resources on the Web. Publishing Ideas in
Action, a bi-weekly email newsletter with
news and pointers to useful resources for
volunteers and nonprofit professionals
around the world. Sending out daily Job and
Internship Alerts with information about
jobs and internships posted in Idealist
during the previous 24 hours. Training
nonprofit and community organizations on how
best to use the Internet in their work
Helping.orgHelping
People Make a Difference "Helping.org
is an easy-to-use, one-stop online resource
designed to help people find volunteer and
giving opportunities in their own
communities and beyond. With customizable
services and comprehensive information, it's
never been easieror more secureto
donate your time, services, or financial
support." Suite
101.com/Volunteerism |
Real
Change
Seattle's Homeless Newspaper with information on Activism
and How to Organize a Homeless Newspaper in Your Own
City "A Homeless Newspaper in Every City by
the Year 2000" plus links
to other homeless newspapers and other activist
organizations . See also National
Coaltion for the Homeless.
Jobs
with Justice A national campaign for
workers rights. Working through coalitions of
labor, community, religious and constituency
organizations, Jobs with Justice is fighting for
workers rights and economic justice.
 Rainforest Action
Network is an amazing site for kids and
adults to discover what's happening to the lungs of
our planet..
 Forest
Guardians is using cutting-edge science to
challenge misguided federal agency actions that
continue to threaten public lands.
Save
the Yellowstone bison at the National
Parks and Conservation Association website.
Meals
On Wheels
Airlifeline.org
Volunteer Pilots
Volunteer
to provide free air transportation to:
- A patient
needing chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or
other medical care at a facility far from home
- A patient
needing an organ transplant
- A seriously ill
child or adult attending a special camp
- A patient
requiring a flight to their "final
wish" destination
- Medical
personnel or supplies in the event of a natural
disaster
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Volunteer
to cure leukemia, find prime numbers, calculate pi or crack
an encryption code
Intelฎ
Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program "Intel
Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program is using
the power of peer-to-peer technology to
usher in a new era of scientific computing.
By lending your spare PC resources to the
effort, you can help fundamentally change
the manner and speed of medical discovery.
"Intel
Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program was
designed as a focal point where anyone can
come to learn about and take part in PC
philanthropy. The long-range vision is
for the site to host a number of life
science research programs dedicated to
specific diseases, from prostate cancer to
Parkinson's disease, that cause suffering
for people. By urging other computer users
to join this collaborative effort, you help
raise awareness about landmark medical
research. In addition, you help unharness
more power for discoveries that are
otherwise constrained by the lack of
processing capabilities."
distributed.net
"was founded to serve as a gathering
point for research and projects related to
distributed processing. To build
up a network of computers over the Internet
all coordinating on various tasks, with each
computer working on the project it's best
suited to. Proving that when you add up all
the idle time, on all the computers all over
the Internet, that enormous tasks may
be accomplished. distributed.net
will tackle large problems in encryption,
finding large prime numbers, or playing
chess at a level unknown previously. Other
large problems that no individual,
corporation, or government could tackle
alone will be started as we find larger and
larger problems to tackle."
PiHex
"is a distributed computing project,
currently using idle time slices on over
five hundred computers to calculate parts of
Pi. We are currently calculating the
quadrillionth bit (250 trillionth hexit) of
Pi. Anyone with a Pentium or faster computer
running windows 95, 98, or NT can join, and
help us set another new record."
The Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), the first
civil liberties group dedicated to
protecting the health and growth of the
Internet, is sponsoring cooperative
computing awards, with over half a
million dollars in prize money, to encourage
ordinary Internet users to contribute to
solving huge scientific problems. |
FREE
Internet Service to Environmentally Oriented Non
Profit Organizations
Envirolink
The EnviroLink Network offers free Internet
services to non-profit organizations within the
environmental and animal rights communities. The
EnviroLink Network provides these services to any
organization within these communities, regardless of
their politics or opinions. How
to support Envirolink
A
listing of environmental organizations by topic. |
Peace Corp: 