United Nations Online Volunteering – an excellent service for NGOs, government entities and others

TOLERANCE AND SOLIDARITY .

From Gert Ceville-Danielsen, UNV Portfolio Manager, Latin America and the Caribbean Development Programming Section

Dear CPNN,

I know you have a tremendous international network of peace educators, NGOs, CBOs and other organisations, and I thought our Online Volunteering service could be very useful for many of them .

Best regards,
Gert

unv
Image from video about UN Online Volunteering

1. FOR INDIVIDUALS

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development, and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers.

For information on how to become an online volunteer please visit https://onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/faq.html. The UNV Online Volunteering service connects volunteers and development organizations to collaborate online for peace and development. On this dedicated website, development organizations post their online volunteering opportunities. Interested individuals identify opportunities that match their interests, expertise, and skills, and submit their applications directly to the organizations, which select the volunteers they would like to engage in their activities.

Please contact info@onlinevolunteering.org for any questions you may have about online volunteering.

(Click here for a version of this article in Spanish)

(Article continued in right column)

 

(Article continued from left column)

2. FOR ENTITIES, NGOS, CBOS, UN AGENCIES, GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development, and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers.

The UNV Online Volunteering service (www.onlinevolunteering.org) is a free service that puts volunteers into contact with organizations worldwide to work together for peace and development – over the Internet.

Online volunteers can support your activities in many ways. They can research information, design websites, translate publications, provide expert advice, and much more. For an impression of the diversity of volunteer opportunities organizations can publish, you may wish to visit the opportunity database at http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/opportunity_search/
Or explore the Stories section to read about the substantive contributions online volunteers have been making to the projects of development organizations across the globe.

This is how it works:

1. Register your organization on www.onlinevolunteering.org
2. Post a volunteer opportunity
3. Receive applications from online volunteers 
4. Select the volunteers with whom you would like to collaborate 
5. Start the online collaboration

We encourage you to visit the Resources section of the Online Volunteering service website for more information on how online volunteering works.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact info@onlinevolunteering.org

We look forward to hearing from you and to receiving your organization’s application for registration.