VolunteerMatch

VolunteerMatch is an online search engine that promotes volunteerism and civic engagement by helping volunteers find charitable organizations that can use their services and non-profit organizations recruit volunteers. In December 2007, VolunteerMatch.org was listed in "TIME" magazine's "50 Top 10 Lists of 2007". [http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686305_1691178,00.html "50 Top 10 Lists of 2007"] , "TIME"]

Operations

In December 2007, VolunteerMatch listed opportunities from over 54,000 non-profit organizations and had over 1.3 million members. In 2006 the service received visits from more than 4.7 million visitors, and made 441,000 referrals of volunteers to opportunities.cite paper
author =VolunteerMatch
title =A Network for Social Change: 2006 Annual Report
year =2006
url =http://www.volunteermatch.org/about/annual_report_06.pdf
accessdate =2006-09-28 Usage statistics on pages 3, 6.]

History

VolunteerMatch was founded in 1998 by Jay Backstrand and Craig Jacoby, with $300,000 in backing from Silicon Valley companies. Citation
last =Miller
first =Leslie
title =Volunteers only need to click to sign up
newspaper =USA Today
year =1998
date =1998-04-29
url =http://www.volunteermatch.org/pressroom/news/newsshell.jsp?id=159 |accessdate= 2006-09-28 ] Citation
last =Caplan
first =Jeremy and Kristina Dell
title =The Activists - VolunteerMatch
magazine=TIME Magazine
year =2007
date =2007-09-10
url =http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1657256_1655085_1654848,00.html |accessdate= 2007-09-10 ]

External links

* [http://volunteermatch.org/ VolunteerMatch website]

References