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About the Virtual Volunteering Project
southern states
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.
Includes national organizations that are based in this region.
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Abuse Counseling and Treatment (ACT)
http://www.actabuse.com
A private, not-for-profit agency in Lee County, Florida. One of ACT's trained onsite volunteers transitioned into an online position, monitoring the group's domestic violence forum and online guestbooks. She corresponds online with a small group of people being served by ACT, who keep her "up-to-date on their goals, hopes, dreams, and apprehensions and makes them comfortable discussing their uncertainties, discouragements, and pain."
America Online
Representatives from AOL, based in Virginia attended one of the first extensive virtual volunteering workshops, held in Virginia in 1997, to learn more and to share their own experiences working with online volunteers. AOL involves online volunteers to help manage its many online forums, and has launched its own online mentoring campaign with the National Mentoring Partnership and the VV Project, as well as the e-Buddies campaign.
Aspire2b
http://www.aspire2b.org
This is a non-profitorganization based in Augusta, Georgia. Its primary mission is to provide teenagers with a structured means of "thinking about and planning for their lives." The organization utilizes web communities, print, and broadcast media to accomplish its goals. The organization sponsors an online mentoring program, and its web site includes mentor guidelines and information about the screening of volunteers, and a mentor's kit to train volunteers for their mentoring activities.
Association for Volunteer Administration
http://www.avaintl.org/
This international organization based in Virginia featured information about the Project in its Journal of Volunteer Administration, and hosted the first in-depth presentation on Virtual Volunteering at their 1997 conference (a presentation repeated in 1998). Attendees to this first workshop provided first-hand accounts of their involvement of online volunteers, and needs they have for future resources to involve volunteers online. AVA also involves its members as volunteers to help create new materials for its Web site and promote its activities through various online forums.
Boggy Creek Gang Camp
http://www.boggycreek.org
This agency is Eustis, Florida serves young people with disabilities in a variety of activities. Many participants are involved in Convomania
Charlotte Rehabilitation Institute
"Virtual Buddies" program
http://www.charweb.org/health/vb/main.htm
A representative from this North Carolina-based program shared information on the Institute's vision for virtual volunteering at its own organization in 1997, and some of the initial steps it had taken to make this dream a reality.
Durham County Literacy Council
Durham, North Carolina
The Council is experimenting with online tutoring as a supplement to face-to-face tutoring, and hopes include distance learning mentors who would guide students through the process of preparing for the GED. They would also like to introduce an online mentoring program for welfare-to-work famiilies.
Prison Fellowship Ministries
http://www.pfm.org/
Reston, Virginia
A not-for-profit, volunteer-based Christian organization assisting churches in their ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families, and to promote biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system. Its websites are maintained by online volunteers, who have produced hundreds of transcripts, enhanced the organizatin's Internet exposure through site registrations, kept the site updated with position listings, prayer requests and other publications, and much more.
