If you accept a virtual assignment, you likely won't have direct supervision. E-mailing a few questions back and forth is completely acceptable, but you need to be comfortable taking the bull by the horns and charging forward with an assignment. It will be up to you to garner the motivation necessary to get your project done by deadline. The Virtual Volunteering Project suggests that you schedule an approximate or specific time to complete the project to which you've committed. Procrastinating a volunteer assignment will make the job much tougher than it should be.
Innumerable resources exist to find a great volunteer position.
Your local place of worship, school, library, halfway house, youth organization or United Way will likely give you some leads. Also, talk to your friends, co-workers and neighbors for more ideas. Internet resources are equally vast. The Points of Light Foundation coordinates a network of more than 500 volunteer centers throughout the nation. Also, check out Volunteer Match , which lists opportunities by city.