The volunteers provide most of their assistance via the Internet. There are many, many other web sites to register online volunteering opportunities as well. Send, by postal mail or e-mail, specific volunteer opportunity announcements to the nearest volunteer center. Call your local United Way to see if they operate such a center, or visit our page of resources for volunteer managers , which provides links to lists of volunteer centers by state. People in college are often looking for unpaid internships as a way to get the experience they need for a career.
College students are also probably the most wired population of all.
Prepare a page of volunteer opportunities, or at least, directions on how to volunteer with your organization. Make sure that there are links to this page on other pages of the organization's World Wide Web site. In your newsletter, announce that there is information on volunteering on your Web site. On any newspaper announcements, press releases, PSAs, etc., as well as online announcements regarding volunteer opportunities at your organization, note that there is volunteer information on your World Wide Web site as well. Because most people in your target audiences who visit your Web site do so because of something they have read on paper or been told over the phone, not because they are looking for it via a Web search engine.