Posted on Jan 29, 2012 in Volunteering by 1 Comment

Question by haveuhuggedavegetarian?: On-line “Volunteering”?
I have heard of FreeRice.com & play it to give free rice to the poor. What are other websites where you can do something on-line to help other people?

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Answer by notonmywatch
The UN has an online volunteer organization. Anyone can apply to volunteer on the web from their own home. http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/ I do not know if that is really what you mean, but it is on-line!

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    Jayne says READ MORE BOOKS Jan 29 2012 - 9:35 pm

    Thanks for the referral to the UN’s OV site. It’s excellent — but unlike the FreeRice site, you don’t just click to help (and I’m skeptical that that really helps). On the UN’s site, you actually have to DO something in order to make a difference.
    http://www.onlinevolunteering.org

    Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world. Volunteering for Project Gutenberg is something you can do from your home.
    http://www.gutenberg.org/

    LibriVox is a nonprofit effort that mobilizes volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain. LibriVox then publishes the audio files on the Internet, via its web site. The goal is to record al books in the public domain! Volunteering for LibriVox is something you can do from your home. You can listen to free audiobooks recorded by volunteers, or volunteer to record yourself reading a chapter of a book in the public domain to share with everyone, by going to the LibriVox web site:
    http://librivox.org/

    There are also distributed computing sites, where your computer does the “volunteering” for you. Here’s an excellent list of such causes:
    http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/14-best-ways-to-use-your-computer.s-spare-time


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