Virtual Volunteering Wiki
Recruiting Online Volunteers

This is a partial list of web sites providing searchable online databases of volunteering opportunities, and that are free for you to use to recruit volunteers, online or otherwise. These databases allow a volunteer to search based on their postal code, region or keyword search. This is a list of the most popular sites at the time of this Guidebook's revision, as well as some sites that have caught the author's attention.

Please note that we do not recommend posting requests for online volunteers to any of these sites until you are ready to involve online volunteers immediately. We encourage you to read The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, for more information before using these sites to recruit online volunteers.

For recruitment of all volunteers, including (but not only) online volunteers:

USA
All for Good, http://www.allforgood.org
Create the Good (by AARP) http://www.createthegood.org/
Do Something, http://www.dosomething.org
HandsOn Network, http://1-800-volunteer.org/ or http://www.handonnetwork.org
Network for Good, http://www.networkforgood.org
ServeNet, http://www.servenet.org
USAservice.org, http://www.usaservice.org
VolunteerMatch, http://www.volunteermatch.org
Volunteer Solutions, http://www.volunteersolutions.org

For use by any country:
CraigsList, http://craigslist.org (look for your country, then your city, and then the section for volunteering opportunities)
HealthCare Volunteer, http://www.healthcarevolunteer.com
Idealist, http://www.idealist.org

For recruitment of online volunteering exclusively:

For recruitment of both onsite and online volunteers
Betobe, http://www.betobe.org - France
BrightOne, http://brightone.org.uk/ , U.K.
France Bénévolat, http://www.francebenevolat.org/
HacesFalta.org, http://www.HacesFalta.org, also canalsolidario.org, solucionesong.org, voluntariadocorporativo.org, Spain
Help From Home, http://www.helpfromhome.org (microvolunteering only - both onsite and online)
ivo (formerly i-volunteer) , http://ivo.org/ , UK
Shropshire, http://www.ShropshireSkillsMatch.org.uk/ , UK
Volunteer Ireland, www.volunteer.ie, Ireland
Volunteer Scotland, www.volunteerscotland.org.uk, U.K.
xarxanet.org and voluntariat.org, Spain (Catalunya)
ZiviCloud, http://zivicloud.roteskreuz.at , Austria

The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook  is available from Energize, Inc..
 


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Detailed information about how to use the Internet to support and involve volunteers - virtual volunteering - can be found in The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. This wiki is a supplement to the book - but no substitution for it. 

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Want to know more about using the Internet to engage and support volunteers? See:


The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
by Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis


The most comprehensive guide available on virtual volunteering, including online mentoring, micro-volunteeirng, virtual teams, high-responsibility roles, crowd sourcing to benefit nonprofits and other mission-based organizations, and much more.


Published January 2014, based on more than 30 years of research.  Available as both a print book and an ebook.