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原文由 happyjyl 发表:
VolunteerMatch at a Glance

Suppose you’ve recently moved to a new city and are looking for a place to volunteer, or you’re developing an interest in an important social issue, or you want to spend a weekend doing something to make the world a better place: how can you turn your good intentions into action? VolunteerMatch has provided an effective answer to this question for hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. since its founding in 1998.

原文由 happyjyl 发表:
Launched at the height of the Internet start-up boom, VolunteerMatch is the largest web-based volunteer-matching service in the country. Its founder, Jay Backstrand, began his career at Sun Microsystems where he was one of the principal organizers of NetDay, a service day that mobilized more than 25,000 volunteers to connect California schools to the Internet. Inspired by the Internet’s potential, Backstrand decided to create and run a website that would allow nonprofit organizations to post their volunteer opportunities for free. The idea took off, and before long he had left Sun to run the nonprofit site full time.