 The More You Know |
| Volunteering: History of an American Value |
| This country has relied on volunteers from its start. For example, colonists banded together to survive the harsh New World, forming support groups to help each other plant crops, build houses and fight disease. |
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| From Benjamin Franklin to the Civil War to the War on Poverty, volunteers have played a key role in making our country what it is today. |
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| It’s not until we learn about and recognize this important history that we can clearly see the important place volunteers like all of you have in our present and future, as well. |
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| Learn about the history of volunteering in America. |
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| New Partnership |
| Flash Volunteer Uses Our APIs to Increase Your Impact |
| Who doesn’t love flash mobs, right? Brad Wilke asked a similar question when he founded Flash Volunteer in 2009. |
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| The service is built by volunteers, for volunteers, and specializes in group activities such as park cleanups, trail builds, and other single-day events. It uses the power of social media to create opportunities for “Cause Crowds,” flash-mob-style volunteer events. |
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| Now Flash Volunteer has increased its ability to engage volunteers by using VolunteerMatch APIs to pull in events from our site. |
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| Read more about the new partnership between VolunteerMatch and Flash Volunteer. |
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| Volunteering Research |
| Digging Through the Data Archive |
| Is there a link between volunteering and health? Do volunteers donate more than non-volunteers? What’s so special about Baby Boomers? |
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| These questions all have one thing in common: They are addressed in research reports VolunteerMatch has released in the past few years. Check them out in our research archive. |
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| Visit the VolunteerMatch research archive. |
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| Volunteer Spotlight |
| Sasha Daucus, TechSoup |
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| By Stephanie Rosenburg, Communications & Social Media Intern |
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| Navigating technology and keeping up with the latest tech tools can be a scary task for any time-strapped nonprofit. But thanks to virtual tech-savvy volunteers like Sasha Daucus, cyberspace can seem like a brighter place. |
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| Sasha brings a love for technology and passion for volunteering together in her role as online community host for the TechSoup Forums. |
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| As the host of the Introduce Yourself forum, she’s been welcoming new users to TechSoup for nine years. |
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| Read the rest of the Sasha’s story. |
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