Advise and brainstorm with director of innovative nonprofit organization in Sarasota

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We are a small nonprofit organization in the midst of doing some great things. Almost all of our work is done by volunteers, including our Executive Director who is a volunteer. Since we're a small organization, our Executive Director is the only manager and doesn't have other managers to help, so we're looking for volunteers to support him in one or more of the following ways. If you want to do one or two of them, and not others, that's fine:

* Brainstorm solutions to challenges that arise, and help assess the options or give advice about them.

* Give him an ear or some moral support if needed. Running a nonprofit is hard, and sometimes moral support or encouragement goes a long way.

* Help with tasks occasionally such as filling out a form, typing up some notes or picking up office supplies (we'd pay for the supplies)

* Other ways of helping out depending on what you're good at doing

Experience and knowledge related to what our nonprofit does isn't needed. A lot of the items are simply common sense. If there is a topic that requries particular knoweldge and you don't have it, you could just let him know.

Our volunteers are located around the country and work virtually via the Internet, so he doesn't get to work in person with them. Thus he'd prefer that the volunteers helping him with the above are within range of Sarasota so he could do some of it in person, perhaps over coffee.

If you want to get a sense of what we're doing, here are some of our websites that are live, in beta or in initial development. They fall into three broad groups:

1) a group of innovative websites to provide other nonprofits (and their supporters) with unique tools they can use to raise money for their causes. This link below gives an overview: click the "See More" buttons at the end of the sections. In the future, each logo will go to a unique website focused on that fundraising tool. About half of the logos are already linked to sites that are either done or in progress:

http://maximumgood.org/

A few examples are:

https://volunteerathon.org
http://giveitup.net/
http://loseathon.org/

This is a sample of how a person's fundraising page looks - the format is the same at most sites, but each has a unique logo, activity and color scheme:

http://loseathon.org/fundraiser

We've ported the entire IRS database of 1 million nonprofits to our website, so all 1 million nonprofits will automatically have pages at all of the fundraising websites. E.g. -

http://loseathon.org/nonprofit/

We're also creating these tools to give people fundraising opportunities every season and holiday of the year: http://calendarforgood.org/


2) new projects to fight global poverty, slavery and climate change. You can see the logos of many of them at these links. In the future clicking on each logo will go to a unique website:

http://fortheearth.org/

There are other climate change websites we're creating and the best ones are not up there yet.

http://fortheslaves.org/

One of the anti-slavery websites is a modern-day equivalent of the Underground Railroad. You can see the video we made for it and a draft of the website here - when we launch, it will be at .org -

http://virtualrailroad.info

3) an existing website that provides news related to making the world a better place covering various topics including nonprofits, human rights, extreme poverty, climate change, giving and volunteering: http://DailySource.org. This site has existed for over 14 years. You can see a few of the team members here: http://DailySource.org/about/team. If you think you might be interested, please let us know.

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