April 20, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
A new guide is available for charities that want to add a “virtual” component to their volunteer program.
The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: How to Apply the Principles of Real-World Volunteer Management to Online Service, a 133-page book available free online, explains how to recruit, manage, and evaluate volunteers who do their charity work on the Internet.
The manual also includes a chapter on how non-profit organizations can involve people with disabilities in their online-volunteer programs and links to Web sites that provide additional information about volunteerism and the Internet.
The book was written by Susan J. Ellis, a volunteer-management consultant in Philadelphia, and Jayne Cravens, manager of the Virtual Volunteering Project at the Charles A. Dana Center of the University of Texas at Austin.
To get there: Go to http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/book.html or http://www.energizeinc.com/art/elecbooks.html.
