Volunteer With Impact Online

Financial Donations, In-kind Contributions

Volunteer With Us!

Volunteer support is vital to our efforts! Because of both our small staff and because of the nature of our work, we depend on volunteers to help accomplish Impact Online's mission.

Impact Online welcomes people from all walks and stages of life as volunteers, and we hope our opportunities give individuals a sense of "giving back" to communities, as well as helping them exercise and develop various skills.

Volunteers are usually asked to take on three or six-month assignments (except for board members, who must committ to two-year terms).

Many of Impact Online's volunteers help us via their home or work computers!

Volunteers help Impact Online with:

Web site development
From converting information into .html, to creating image maps and interactive forms, volunteers have been closely involved in developing and sustaining our Web site presence, and we continue to need such assistance (a paid internship is also available).

Publicity
Both online and offline, we need assistance to continue to get the word out about Impact Online and its programs. This would include researching outlets, as well as posting to appropriate list serves and newsgroups.

Program research
We are constantly looking for collaboration opportunities and best practices, as well as information that supports our goals. We need assistance in finding organizations doing related work to ours, and in finding data and statistics that support our work.

Outreach (Fanatics)
We need individuals to spread the word about Impact Online and its programs among nonprofit organizations, public sector agencies and media outlets in their own communities. This includes volunteers serving as Community Content Representatives , who are crucial to our nationwide Volunteer America rollout.

Volunteer coordination
We need a volunteer to help us coordinate, organize and recruit other volunteers for an Internet publicity campaign and other endeavors.

In-Office Support (Palo Alto, California)
Our West Coast manager involves volunteers in a variety of areas, both on and offline. You should be computer literate and internet savvy.

Governance
Our Board of Directors are instrumental in securing funding for Impact Online, and helping guide the organization's overall mission

INTERNSHIP

Impact Online is seeking an interim webmaster (paid intern). He or she will assume system administration and maintenance tasks for a high profile nonprofit large website from our outgoing webmaster. Duties will include gathering traffic stats, maintaining server, promptly answering tech-support questions, managing e-mail lists, providing desktop support for Macintosh, updating HTML pages. Excellent opportunity for candidate to gain advanced web site management experience. Hours are flexible.

Qualifications/Skills Familiarity with HTML, UNIX and Macintosh OS are a necessity. Programming skills or knowledge of Frontier, WindowsNT, PERL, VB, Access95 and CGI are a plus. Excellent attention to detail, and ability to communicate with non-technical people essential.

Hours A commitment of 10-15 hours a week for approximately six months.

Compensation $500 per month, as an intern.