be a smarter volunteer with your smartphone, 2014 #techphx
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We all have passions to help our community, our environment, and our cities.
Many non-profit organizations need your volunteer aid, but in addition to helping the various missions of your own causes, you can help recruit other volunteers, raise funds and increase advocacy with tools found on your smartphone.
Save endangered species, feed the homeless, bring non-profits into the 21st Century and become a volunteer rock star.Eileen M. Kane [email protected] @eileenmkane
Let’s Talk About Us
Master Gardener, University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension
Facebook/MaricopaCountyMasterGardeners
Arizona Herb Association
AZHerb.org
Desert Rivers Audubon
DesertRiversAudubon.org
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Volunteerism
the use or involvement of volunteer labor,especially in community services.
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Formal volunteering: activities organized through some sort of organization.
Informal volunteering: which can be one component of social capital, refers to a wide range of different kinds of mutual help and co-operation between individuals within communities.
Volunteer Strategy, The Scottish Governmenthttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/publications/2004/05/19348/36996
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Why People Volunteer
• Basic Level: Self-serving drive (interns, political campaigns);
• Secondary Level: Relational drive(recruited by friend);
• Highest Level: Belief drive(passion for cause).
Thomas W. McKee, author The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer
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Millennials in Adulthood:
Detached from Institutions,
Networked with Friends
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Pew Research, March 2014http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/
Pew Research Internet Project
Young adults: Cell owners ages 18-29 are the most likely of any demographic group to use their phone to go online: 85% of them do so, compared with 73% of cell owners ages 30-49, and 51% of those ages 50-64. Just 22% of cell owners ages 65 and older go online from their phones, making seniors the least likely demographic group to go online from a cell phone.
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Non-whites: Three-quarters (74%) of African-American cell phone owners are cell internet users, as are 68% of Hispanic cell owners.
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The college-educated: Three-quarters (74%) of cell owners with a college degree or higher are cell internet users, along with two-thirds (67%) of those who have attended (but not graduated) college.
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The financially well-off: Cell phone owners living in households with an annual income of $75,000 or more per year are significantly more likely than those in every other income category to go online using their phones. Some 79% of these affluent cell owners do so.
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“You’ve got 3 kinds of donors – the True Believer, The Casual Fan, and The Reluctant Tagalongs. Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. It’s a platform to connect, to earn trust, and for even the most reluctant of supporters to discover just how much they want to be a part of your community.”
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Marc Koenig, Nonprofit HubNonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Here’s Why You Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer
Blog It Now! (Event)
Upload photo and caption from phone app;
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“Checking out the many features of the new Desert Rivers Audubon Mobile App, 101 Birding Sites-Phoenix.”
Blog It Now!
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First impressions (three sentences/one paragraph);
Girls Use Tools @ Zanjero Park, Gilbert, burrowing owl release tent construction. Release tent supports need to withstand wind & weather while the burrowing owls are sheltered and fed for a month to acclimate onsite before being released to the larger artificial burrow habitat.
Blog It Now!
End of day (results, group photo);
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#StartupWeekend Chandler final pitches and Chris Stiffler Audience Technical Award Sunday night.
Blog It Now!
Send photos and comments to organizer (before leaving via email app);
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Blog It Now!
Write your own blog:
• Who
• What
• Why
• Where
• How
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“P.ink provides tattoo ideas and artist info to breast cancer survivors.”
HelpBridge
During disaster/crisis:
• send e-mail
• SMS
• to the communities you select
• Post a message to your Facebook wall
• tweet on Twitter.Eileen M. Kane [email protected] @eileenmkane
CharityMiles
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How it WorksIt's as easy as this: get moving. Bikers earn 10¢ a mile and walkers and runners earn 25¢ a mile, up to our initial $1,000,000 sponsorship pool.
Develop an App for your Cause
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http://www.netsquared.org/
http://hacks4humanity.com/http://www.codeforamerica.org/
More Help
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