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Volunteer for us - Climate Council
Volunteers are critical to the Climate Council’s impact.
Volunteering, Nonprofit Jobs, and Community
Find volunteer opportunities, nonprofit jobs, social-impact opportunities and more on the Idealist platform.
Volunteer – Socialists
We are a people-powered movement - we depend on the energy and enthusiasm of our supporters to get our message out. Every contribution, even the smallest, will make a difference.
Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library
Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development...
Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity - Less Wrong
Disclaimer: I’m somewhat nervous about posting this, for fear of down-voting on my first LW post, given that this post explicitly talks in a positive light about organisations that I have helped to set up. But I think that the topic is of interest to LW-ers, and I’m hoping to start a rational discussion. So here it goes…
DIY Infrastructure Building for Power – Esther Han Beol Jang
Foundational research — Passing the Message Stick
We can build widespread support for self-determination and justice when we lead with our strength and solutions.
How to choose a governance system for your organization
Is your nonprofit, small business, or volunteer group looking for a new way to make decisions? Many groups are questioning our mainstream systems — and that includes the systems by which we make decisions. Governance used to be one of the things we’d all take for granted, and now it’s one of the cho
Neighborhood Steward Fellowship | New_ Public
An eight-week program bringing together leaders of local-oriented online spaces to experiment with fun new practices and ideas
Volunteering and Civic Action: Boundaries Blurring, Boundaries Redrawn
The aim of this introduction to the special issue is to call into question the presumed conceptual divide between volunteering and civic action and suggest an analytical tool and four perspectives that bring to light the varying meanings of popular engagement. Volunteering and civic action are laden with different moral meanings, are associated with different theoretical approaches and, just as important, have been assigned different roles in society. This conceptual divide is reflected in the academic debate. Only rarely, however, has the academic debate explored and discussed how the meaning of volunteering and civic action has changed historically. Therefore, we argue for a contextual and relational interpretation of the different forms of popular engagement instead of the application of essentialist definitions of volunteering and civic action. In order to examine the variety of popular engagement without being caught up in pre-made or taken-for-granted conceptualisations of volunteering and civic action as two separate forms of popular engagement, we propose approaching variations of popular engagement with respect to two criteria: first, to what degree popular engagement is enacted in institutionalised spheres of politics or in social public spheres and, second, to what degree actions of popular engagement are controversial or operating in line with what is widely agreed upon and dominant in public opinion. Moreover, we argue that history, discourses, politics and a relational approach are four crucial perspectives in order to reveal the varying meanings of popular engagement.
Sweat Equity — FARMore
The Sweat Equity Program is a volunteer-driven initiative providing hands-on assistance to farmers who need it most. More than just lending a hand, it shows how vital, soulful, and impactful farming is for all of us. This program bridges the gap between urban and rural communities through meaningful service and education. Together, we are building relationships based on reciprocity and inspiring:
Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground? - Stack Overflow
I'm a senior staff engineer, and I’m wondering what advice you might have for a person in my role in a large company to affect priorities and the speed at which work is "expected" to be executed.
CivilServant: Citizen Science for Online Communities - Citizens and Technology Lab
Moderators of online communities, often volunteers, work hard to protect their communities from harassment, misinformation, trolls, and other online harms. But which policies and procedures actually work?
