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March 2, 1999.
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March 2, 1999
- Shoreline Education for Awareness
- Organization Name
- Shoreline Education for Awareness
- Organization City
- Bandon
- State/Province
- OR
- Country
- USA
- Organization's Geographic Service Area
- Southern Oregon Coast
- Number of full-time and part-time employees (paid staff)
- None
- Respondent's Name
- William P. (Bill) Russel
- Respondent's Position
- President and Exec. Dir.
- Organization's Web Site Address
- www.coos.or.us/~sea
- Respondent's Role in Working with Volunteers at Organization
- Leader, trainer, evaluator, motivator, exemplar.
- How did you hear about this Project?
- e-mail from EDF
- What other staff have involved volunteers virtually at
your organization?
- None
- Approximately how many of your online volunteers provide
technical assistance to your staff or to other volunteers?
- 2
- Please describe the kinds of activities these technical
assistance volunteers provide to your organization:
- First, validation of information. A Professor at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology reviews the text we plan to use in brochures for accuracy.
Second, translation into Spanish. The text of our best brochure will be available in Spanish next summer because a volunteer in mexico used e-mail to send me a translation.
- Approximately how many of your volunteers provide direct
support to clients / recipients of service via the Internet?
- None
- Please describe the kinds of volunteer activities these
direct contact volunteers provide to your organization:
- No response
- How did you recruit the volunteers you involve(d) via
the Internet?
- First, the professor originally helped us in person by conducting classes to train our volunteers. When I needed confirmatin of biological facts, I sent questions by e-mail and she answered.
Secondly, a regular visitor at one of the viewpoints where we do wildlife interpretation agreed to ask her friend in Mexico to help us.
- How did you screen/orient the volunteers you involve(d)
via the Internet?
- Not/applicable
- How do you supervise and recognize/reward online
volunteers for their contributions?
- Requests are made via e-mail and answers returned the same way. Both are given by-lines and thanks in the brochures.
- Have you ever surveyed these online volunteers about
their experiences with your organization?
- No. Both have expressed thanks for the opportunity to participate in public information.
- What factors in your organization have promoted the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- the willingness to ask for help.
- What factors in your organization have impeded the
success of your virtual volunteering program?
- None.
- Please add any other comments you would like to send to
us:
- No response
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