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April 15, 1999

Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Organization Name
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Organization City
Toronto
State/Province
Ontario
Country
Canada
Organization's Geographic Service Area
International
Number of full-time and part-time employees (paid staff)
0
Respondent's Name
Tracy Lamourie
Respondent's Position
Director
Organization's Web Site Address
http://www.ccadp.org
Respondent's Role in Working with Volunteers at Organization
Organizing, planning, assigning
How did you hear about this Project?
Through an email weekly magazine for activists I get
What other staff have involved volunteers virtually at your organization?
Directors
Web Designers
Communications
Approximately how many of your online volunteers provide technical assistance to your staff or to other volunteers?
4
Please describe the kinds of activities these technical assistance volunteers provide to your organization:
Design web pages for inmates
Collect and distribute email for prosoners
Contacting media/attorneys to direct them to our site
Researching cases online
Typing webpages and penpal requests for us to post online.
Approximately how many of your volunteers provide direct support to clients / recipients of service via the Internet?
50+
Please describe the kinds of volunteer activities these direct contact volunteers provide to your organization:
Mailing inmates and assisting them in keeping contact with the outside world. This can include email that is passes on to prisoners by mail.
Answering students questions.
How did you recruit the volunteers you involve(d) via the Internet?
online, through our webpage and through related email lists.
How did you screen/orient the volunteers you involve(d) via the Internet?
They usually tell us what they'd like to do, they try it and if there was a problem we'd not have them do that again, but have not run into any such issues.
The only thing we do make sure of is that they understand that our group has no other political or religious affiliations, so if they are using CCADP name in any contacts with media, letters etc, to keep those issues out of it.
How do you supervise and recognize/reward online volunteers for their contributions?
Posting on our pages their names, thanking them with cards and emails. Supervise-everything goes through us first.
Have you ever surveyed these online volunteers about their experiences with your organization?
No
What factors in your organization have promoted the success of your virtual volunteering program?
Just contacting people who are passionate about this issue.
What factors in your organization have impeded the success of your virtual volunteering program?
No response
Please add any other comments you would like to send to us:
Please let us know how we can get some volunteers through this site.


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