In this economic climate, the need for good volunteers at nonprofits is keener than ever. At the same time, good employees, through no fault of their own, are looking for new jobs. One way to bolster one's resume is to provide some meaningful volunteer time to a nonprofit. Heck, for four days next week, Starbucks will even give you a free cup of coffee for pledging to volunteer five hours this year.
While finding volunteers the old fashioned way through referrals and local contacts still works best, the use of online volunteer matching sites is growing, and is a way of at least doing a first quick cut of possible volunteers and volunteer opportunities.
Here are the some of the most widely-used volunteer matching sites:
Be sure to check out sites that serve your particular locale as well. Many large cities have such sites. For instance, my city of Baltimore, Md has VolunteerCentral
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