community involvement
so many options!
sarah ziebellinformation resource officeru.s. embassy [email protected]@sarahjziebell
formal volunteering
• clubs
• religious organizations
• schools
• service organizations
• government initiatives
– peace corps
– americorps
– teach for america
informal volunteering
• individual decision
• could involve anything from bringing
an elderly neighbor a hot meal to
participating in a disaster response
effort online
community involvement – u.s.• about 63 million adults volunteer each year
– 8.1 billion hours
– $173 billion
• new annual volunteer day: “giving tuesday” (tuesday after
thanksgiving)
• most popular states for volunteering
– utah
– iowa
– minnesota
– nebraska
– south dakota
making a difference
volunteer vacations
• disaster response (haiti, katrina)
• “missions”
• gap year
community involvement matters to u.s. universities
and employers• “giving back” is very engrained in
american culture
• component of evaluation of
suitability for college, jobs
• leading a volunteer effort is
especially notable
community service as rehabilitation
virtual volunteering
• telementoring
• teletutoring
• virtual internships
• united nations online volunteering
online activism• kony 2012
• one of the most-viewed videos of all time on youtube and vimeo
• 18-29 year-olds overwhelmingly more likely to have heard about kony than
elders and to have viewed video online
• 66% of twitter traffic from march 5-12 supported the anti-kony campaign
• stop online piracy act (sopa), 2011• internet users and activists worked together to defeat sopa through
internet blackout, blogs, videos, discussions organized largely by youth.
• bank of america, 2011• 75,000 people signed petition by 22-year-old on change.org to protest bank
of america’s $5 debit card fee, resulting in boa reversing its decision
• occupy movement, 2011• raised us $454,000 during its first month of activity, mostly from online
donors.
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