Virtual volunteering also allows agencies to expand the benefits of their volunteer programs, by allowing for more volunteers to participate, and by utilizing volunteers in new areas. This type of volunteering helps agencies to further cultivate community support and to augment staff resources and existing volunteer program benefits. Virtual volunteering is a way to extend the benefits of involving volunteers, and a way to help organizations meet the increasing challenges of the future, while also allowing them to reap tangible benefits from emerging technologies. This includes resources for online mentoring . The Project Team's own firsthand experiences working with online volunteers related resources, such as information about telecommuting , or publications to help organizations involve people with disabilities as volunteers .
Assignments can have different levels of virtuality.
For instance, one volunteer may interact with clients online but meet onsite with a staff member regularly, while another volunteer may do research entirely from a home or work computer and turn all of the work in via e-mail. This site does not teach the fundamentals of volunteer management. Our index of Online Resources for Volunteer Managers has links to other Internet resources that provide information on the basics of volunteer management. We are currently seeking funding and formal collaborations for 2001, particularly in the area of online mentoring . For more information, please contact us with your support and collaboration ideas.