• What factors in your organization have promoted the success of your virtual volunteering program?
• What factors in your organization have impeded the success of your virtual volunteering program?

1. Earthwatch Institute
   • On site training
   • The former, primarily...but once the Field Reps are known, not a problem.

2. Pennsylvania American Institute of Architects (AIA)
   • success of our actual work, the politeness and cooperative attitude of our people.
   • Staff reluctance to trust policy matters with volunteers, lack of financial support from staff, lack of energy from all volunteers to keep up the volunteering for years. Lack of collegial support for advancing efforts using newer tools and techniques (trust in hand coding of html only, no NetObjects or GoLive Cyberstudio, etc).

3. New Jersey Online:Community Connection
   • We are offering volunteers a service (web site) which is empowering for networking and conveying information.
   • We have met with only great success.

4. Spiritual Gifts Ministries, Inc
   • By allowing the volunteers to have the freedom of working when they want.
   • Same as above.

5. Shoreline Education for Awareness
   • the willingness to ask for help.
   • None

6. Harambee Christian Family Center
   • The net is cool. Every person on the net is enhancing their relationships and meeting new people with similar interests. That seems to be enough for most of our volunteers.
   • Lack of computers connected to the internet, to unleash our staff people to relate to the net volunteers.

7. Safeguarding Our Children-United Mothers (SOC-UM)
   • The work of helping towards a safer internet for children
   • No response

8. Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
   • Just contacting people who are passionate about this issue.
   • No response

9. YouthOrg UK
   • Praising volunteers. Ensuring their volunteering work is seen by other potential volunteers. Ensuring the content of the web site is written in a level the youth workers and young people can relate to.
   • Members use their skills in their own organizations as many of these are voluntary organizations.
     Fear they need to be an Internet genius to contribute.
     Volunteers giving inaccurate email addresses so making it difficult to contact them.

10. Healthy Communities
    • Promoting the mission of our organization. Volunteers have supported the mission of the organization.
    • We are still developing the capacity of our organization to function as a viable coordinating entity. We have no active recruitment process

11. Aspartame Survivors International
    • We have grown 1000% in 2 months.
    • It is working well so far

12. Journal of international Wildlife Law & Policy
    • The nature of the project, maitaining constant communication with the volunteers to express appreciation for their efforts and to maintain interest in the project.
    • No response

13. AIAPaCOTE-Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment
    • Biggest success is because the largest distances that seperate us physically (strewn across a pretty large state!) and due to the fact that we now use a free 'bulletin board' website as our common base-wherein every member simply subscribes to a digest listserve and therefore everyone knows what everyone else is doing...these make the WWW an excellent tool.
    • Typical volunteer constraints-too busy, unstructured assignments, lack of accountabilty, etc.

14. Martin Memorial Health Systems, Inc.
    • No response
    • No response

15. Gay Men's Health
    • What has been vital is informing all staff what is happening. I have also given a presentation to our Board of Directors to ensure that they are behind what I am doing. There is no point in going ahead with this alone if it does not have the support of your organization.
      We are putting policies and procedures into writing and these are also being checked by everyone in the organization. Non 'virtual Volunteers' are also being involved in the promotion of the web site so it doesn't seem as a tag along extra, but as a central part of the charity.
    • It seems Ok at the moment, but it is early days and I'm sure there will be problems unidentified as yet.

16. Cyberspace seniors/InterAge cyberPals Classroom Project
    • Because I have managed two Lists for older adults on WWW for over three years, I have a good understanding of how e-mail can be used to do volunteer work without the usual money and time costs of on-site orientations, training, etc.
      All policies and procedures are in e-mail handbooks that have been updated and upgraded through experience.
    • Just one person overseeing 130 adult CyberPAls, 160 students in 6 classrooms (four in Arizona and two in Nevada) has prevented the IACP Project from reaching out to enhance the lives of more adults and students.
      It takes one person to just keep that part of the Project going which leaves no time to recruit more adults and teachers for the Project.

17. People Who Net
    • Povery. There is no other tool in place to do the advocacy and support that we want.
    • Divisiveness, competitiveness, inability to put task before personality.

18. IAM & The All One Foundation
    • No response
    • No response

19. Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
    • Staying in touch by phone sometimes
    • All of the above

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