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".[1]
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.[2]
History
VolunteerMatch was founded in 1998 by Jay Backstrand and Craig Jacoby, with $300,000 in backing from Silicon Valley companies. [3] [4]
External links
References
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686305_1691178,00 "50 Top 10 Lists of 2007"], TIME
- ^ VolunteerMatch. "A Network for Social Change: 2006 Annual Report". Retrieved on 2006-09-28. Usage statistics on pages 3, 6.
- ^ Miller, Leslie (1998-04-29), "Volunteers only need to click to sign up", USA Today, <http://www.volunteermatch.org/pressroom/news/newsshell.jsp?id=159>. Retrieved on 28 September 2006
- ^ Caplan, Jeremy and Kristina Dell (2007-09-10), "The Activists - VolunteerMatch", TIME Magazine, <http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1657256_1655085_1654848,00>. Retrieved on 10 September 2007
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