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International Humanity Foundation Needs At-Home Volunteers

The International Humanity Foundation is a non-profit organization run by volunteers across the globe. Our goal is to empower the poorest of the poor through education, enabling them to stay off the streets and preventing them from ever being exploited. This organization supports over 4,000 children in Indonesia, Thailand and Kenya on a budget of about $8,000 per month. It is so little, but it makes such a difference. Our office is in San Diego, U.S.A., and we are looking for volunteers to help us right from their homes!

To contact us, or to learn more of how you can help, visit www.ihfonline.org .

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We desire volunteers who would love to help this amazing cause. Our volunteers are divided into task teams with leaders in order to maintain organization and achieve our goals! Check out the following task teams, and see where you would work best!

(A) Tasks which take 30 minutes a week or 1 hour a month 1. Nakuru clinic (Medical)

This tasks involves working with a team to help promote our small but extremely important clinic in Nakuru. You will need send emails and letters to hospitals, clinics and medical associations introducing them to IHF and asking them for help. You can also get involved by organizing a fundraising event. One person on this team will be responsible for keeping an updated list of what the clinic needs, and ensure its updated on our website as well. You will also try and send letters to get doctors and nurses to visit our centres as volunteers.

2. Online Volunteer Outreach

On this task you will spend just 30 minutes a week putting up IHF advertisement for volunteer positions on the web. You will be working with a team of other volunteers and keep an updated spreadsheet of which websites have our volunteer positions posted.

3. Administration Costs

On this task you will be responsible for keeping track of ATM withdrawals made by Carol as she visits the IHF centres worldwide. You will keep a spreadsheet that records these costs and what they were spent on.

4. Childwatch or guardian

On this task you will assign yourself 10-15 of our children and you will be there guardian. This means that if they do not have a sponsor, you will try to find them a sponsor, and email them on their birthday and special occasions. IF they do have a sponsor you need to remind the sponsor to email them on their birthday. You will also be involved in gift-drives to collect money, or used toys and books to give to the kids on holidays and birthdays.

5. Googling applicants

On this task you will be doing a quick research on our new applicants to see what their history and skills are before they come to the center. This helps us place people on tasks that most use their skills, and also ensures that we know are volunteers well before they live at our center. You will send in a sentence or two on each volunteer.

6. Researching poverty facts

On this task you will be given a list of questions to research and answer. These questions are related to child poverty in our world. They will be used to instigate discussion on our Poverty Awareness Group Chatroom. This is one of the goals of IHF, to educate the world about the issues and reality of poverty alleviation.

7. Online Retirement Outreach

On this task you will be responsible for reaching out to the older demographic of retired individuals who often have such valuable skills and abilities. You will be asked to contact websites that are frequented by the 50+ demographic. Such websites as senior health sites, civic social groups, retirement community websites, further education for seniors, city park recreation programs for seniors, vacation and travel websites for seniors, associations of retired professors/teachers, or other professional sites for retirees.

8. Annual Budgets Upkeep

This task will require just one to two hours a month. You will be in charge of putting together the annual budget for each centre, and work directly with the Directors of each centre (via email) to discover any one-time year costs and other costs that should be considered in the budget. You will also help to work with the Directors to ensure that they keep within their budget.

9. Buildings Maintenance Needs

On this task you will be responsible for keeping track of all needs for our buildings in each center. You can work with ReBuild San Diego, who are hoping to send volunteers to our centers to get these things fixed. You will also need to stay in contact with the Grants Team, to ensure that these needs are mentioned in our grants.

10. Online sponsor facts sharing and outreach

On this task you will be sharing our weekly information about the number of sponsors we have for each program/centre, and the number of sponsors we need with all our active volunteers. You will also inform our volunteers of the number of volunteers we have in the organization.

(B) Tasks 60 minutes or so a week or approx. 4 hours a month 1. Carol and volunteers travel info

In this task you will be responsible for helping Carol and our volunteers with their travel arrangements. This task includes emailing airlines and requesting that they help to cover part of the cost of the travel.

2. Media

On this task you will be working with Paula to help increase public awareness of IHF programs and projects. You will be trying to get advertising space with magazines, newspapers and journals. You will also be trying to get articles published about IHF and its founder Carol.

3. San Diego local monthly meeting facilitator

On this task you will need to live in San Dieo. You will be responsible for getting together all our San Diego volunteers once a month to ensure that all are still involved in their tasks and helping each other. You will also meet any new volunteers and introduce them to IHF.

4. Legal team

While working on the legal team you can research the different requirements to set up legal chapters in different countries. You will also be helping to ensure that all our legal documents are up to date and available. Another tasks in the legal team is to help to see the legal requirements to change IHF status from a private foundation to a Public fund.

5. Online Sponsor Drive

This task involved emailing websites to find free online ad space so that we can recruit more sponsors for our children. We are currently very much in need of recruiting more sponsors for our children in Kenya. Your help in this task would be really appreciated. You can dedicate as little as one hours a week or much more if you like.

6. Awards

The awards volunteer is responsible for creating and establishing an awards system for our many amazing volunteers around the world. They will start from scratch on this task to decide on types of award, frequency and criteria.

7. Task List Upkeep

This task is to keep out list of priority tasks (the one you are reading now) updated. They will work closely with Carol and the Task team to keep everyone informed on what needs to be done.

8. Templates Keeper

In this task the volunteer will be responsible for collecting all templates into templates@ihfonline.org

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9. Grant Research

This task involves researching grants that IHF will be eligible to apply for and inputting the information onto a spreadsheet.

10. Address and data upkeep

This task is to assist in updating and keeping record of our email addresses and locations of volunteers sponsors, and other addresses for our Master Mailing list.

(C) Tasks which take 2 to 3 hours a week or 8 to 10 hours a month 1. Tracking active volunteers

This task involves checking our donated hours spreadsheet, to make sure all volunteers listed with a task are inputted onto this spreadsheet and sending in their donated hours weekly. The donated hours help us claim our tax status in the U.S. Also this task involves emailing volunteers who are assigned a task and not sending in their donated hours with a template letter offering a change of task.

2. References

This task is working with the volunteer coordinating/processing team to follow up on references for new applicants. You will be provided with a template letter and the references. To do this task you need regular access to internet, about 15 - 20 minutes a day.

3. Donated hours

This task is to upload the donated hours sent in weekly by our volunteers onto a spreadsheet. This task should be done every Monday, and Wednesday for one hour. It is an easy task, but so helpful for our tax exempt status in the U.S.

4. Acceptances

This team sends out acceptance letters to new volunteers after confirming their acceptance with the volunteer processing team.

5. Fundraising

You can work on Online Fundraising - where you will be working with Amir to access different types of online funds for IHF. And can also work on Corporate fundraising, where you will send out template letters to corporations to see if they are interested in donating or sponsoring a child.

6. Shipping Procurement

Any volunteer that can successfully fill this position would be doing as an incredibly invaluable service. We have many people who are willing to collect supplies, clothes, stationary, medicine, and other items for our centres. But unfortunately the shipping cost is so expensive that the result is we pay more for the shipping than the cost of the products. We need someone dedicated to helping us solve this problem. Either by finding a way to collect the cost of this shopping through fundraising, or by contacting shipping companies and asking for free freight/cargo space (or largely discounted). Sometimes, you may find that airline stewards are willing to take on the extra shipping cost, so contacting them may be of help. To be able to do this position successfully you need to be creative and determined. But the help would seriously be incredibly valuable.

7. Grant Writing

As the task name suggests, this task involve writing grants. You will be provided with a grant to start with, and you may use all the information on our website to help you learn about our programs. This task is very important as it provides us with the necessary funds to keep and grow our programs.

8. Task Follow Up

This task is working with the other task team members to follow up on volunteers who have been assigned a task and sent instructions. You will go over the spreadsheet filled by the volunteer in the task Placement Task, and send any volunteers a follow up email to check that they have received their instructions and are active on their task. Your duty is also to encourage and thank volunteers for their work. Good inter-personal skills are a plus.

9. Finances

On this task you will help go through the weekly reports of each centre and make sure everything is in order. You will then be putting up our expense reports on our web with the help of Amir so that IHF can be a transparent organization.

10. Sponsor Letters In this task you will send out the letters that the children write to their sponsors. You can keep track of it by using the sponsorletters spreadsheet. We have hundreds of letters that need to go out every month, so you will be working with Elin and a team to get this done. It is a wonderful task as you see the beautiful letters the children write.

11. PHP and MySQL Web Developer

This volunteer will help with the maintenance and upkeep of the website or will work on a range of new web projects such as a contact management system, a tracking system for volunteer's donated hours or a map created using the Google Maps API.

IHF wants all volunteers to be

1. Mature and responsible
2. Team players
3. Fast learners with great attitudes
4. Sales and computer skills a plus
5. Flexible
6. Interested in global change through education and service
7. FUN!