Becoming a Volunteer With Coyote Helps
Note: Coyote Helps does not yet exist as a
nonprofit. All of the information on this web site is PROPOSED.
Please see the home page for more information about this idea
for a nonprofit.
A person interested in volunteering with Coyote Helps should first
read through our web site, especially the
volunteer tasks and the code of conduct.
A volunteer applicant must have a LinkedIn profile. This is asked
for in the application to volunteer and will be reviewed by Coyote
Helps leadership. The LinkedIn profile must note the city and
country where you live. If should also note your most recent
educational diploma (what it is, what institution it is from, and
your area of concentration). If you choose to use a pseudonym on
your LinkedIn account, you may be asked by Coyote Helps leadership
for a scan of your identification.
You should also have a Reddit account that you will use as a part of
your volunteering. This profile must be public (as in, you cannot
make your posts private). This is asked for in the application to
volunteer and will be reviewed by Coyote Helps leadership.
We also encourage you to have an account on BlueSky and/or on
Mastodon, that will be used for your volunteering with Coyote
Helps. These can be existing social media accounts you already
have, provided you follow the Coyote Helps guidelines at all times
when using that account, or it can be an account you create
especially for use as a Coyote Helps volunteer. You will be asked to
submit these account names to Coyote Helps leadership upon
acceptance into the program as a volunteer.
These social media accounts will be reviewed by Coyote Helps
leadership both at the time of your application and periodically
during your association with Coyote Helps, to ensure you are
following our Code of Conduct.
Then you should first complete our online application (application not yet launched),
at which time you will agree to the Coyote
Helps Code of Conduct and agree to our AI use policy (within
the code).
A person who is accepted into the volunteering program will receive
an official email from Coyote Helps noting this acceptance and
detailing first steps.
Note that all roles with Coyote Helps are volunteer roles and,
therefore, are unpaid roles.
Please do NOT start on any volunteering tasks
until you have received written notification from Coyote Helps
that you are now an official volunteer.
Prohibited activities by volunteers. Unless the volunteer has
received direction by Coyote Helps leadership, no volunteer should:
- Contact any other company or organization with regarding to
any activity related to volunteering with Coyote Helps,
regarding pursuit of a partnership, regarding recruiting more
volunteers or regarding donations of any kind.
- Pay or donate any money or item to any company or organization
as a part of their volunteering with Coyote Helps.
- Ask for the contact information of any other volunteer,
without the express permission of Coyote Helps leadership.
- Set up a face-to-face, onsite meeting, phone call or video
call with any other volunteer, without the express permission of
Coyote Helps leadership.
Acceptance of a new volunteer
Upon acceptance into the Coyote Helps program, the volunteer must
declare this volunteering affiliation on his or her LinkedIn
profile. The entry should be something like:
Ann Smith
Online volunteer
Coyote Helps
Researching, posting & boosting content to select online
communities and social media to promote philanthropy,
volunteerism, inclusion and other community and environmental
causes.
Each volunteer must have an account on Reddit. We also encourage you
to have an account on BlueSky and/or on Mastodon, that will be used
for your volunteering with Coyote Helps. These can be existing
social media accounts you already have, provided you follow the
Coyote Helps guidelines at all times when using that account, or it
can be an account you create especially for use as a Coyote Helps
volunteer. You will be asked to submit these account names to Coyote
Helps leadership upon acceptance into the program as a volunteer.
Please note that Coyote Helps has no official affiliation whatsoever
with Reddit, BlueSky, Mastodon, Meta, or any company or nonprofit
named anywhere on this web site, unless otherwise noted.
Please also note that your social media accounts are YOURS.
If you have a Reddit account that you will use as a Coyote Helps
volunteer:
- This account must not used on NSFW subreddits.
- This account must be viewable by anyone who looks at your
profile page, allowing anyone to see your posts and comments
(but you absolutely can be anonymous on Reddit).
- This account must not produce, share nor compliment material
that is sexually-explicit in nature, nor promote racism or
sexism or violence.
If you have a Reddit account you are ready to use in association
with your volunteering with Coyote Helps, then once you are
accepted as a volunteer, you are ready to get started with
volunteering tasks
on Reddit on behalf of Coyote Helps. If you do not have such an
account, you need to create one immediately. Coyote Helps cannot
provide you with guidance on how to create a Reddit account: you
need to know how to do this on your own. Please do NOT start on
any tasks until you have received written notification from Coyote
Helps that you are now an official volunteer.
If you have a BlueSky and/or Mastodon account that you will use as a
Coyote Helps volunteer:
- This account must not used to engage in sexually-related
activities.
- This account must be viewable by anyone who looks at your
profile page, allowing anyone to see your posts and
comments.
If you have a Blue Sky and/or Mastodon account you are ready to
use in association with your volunteering with Coyote Helps, then
once you are accepted as a volunteer, you are ready to get started
with tasks
on Reddit on behalf of Coyote Helps. If you do not have such an
account, and you want to leverage that account/those accounts as a
part of your volunteering, then you need to create an
account/accounts immediately. Coyote Helps cannot provide you with
guidance on how to create a BlueSky account: you need to know how
to do this on your own. For Mastodon, we recommend you create an
account on Mastodon.social
or Mastodon.world or Mastodon.plus.
Please do NOT start on any volunteering tasks
until you have received written notification from Coyote Helps
that you are now an official volunteer.
These social media accounts will be reviewed by Coyote Helps
leadership both at the time of your application and periodically
during your association with Coyote Helps, to ensure you are
following our Code of Conduct.
Applying to volunteer via Coyote Helps
If you have come this far on this page, we hope it is because you
have read our code of conduct, our guidelines for volunteering, and
you agree with them and agree to follow them if you are accepted as
a volunteer with us. And if that's the case, and you want to, you
are ready to enroll
as an official volunteer with Coyote Helps (link goes to our
application to volunteer).
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