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4 people are interested
Children's Clean Ocean UN: Need someone to research environmental blogs.
ORGANIZATION: Kids Save Ocean
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4 people are interested
We're looking for volunteers to research media and organizational contacts that we'll connect with at various stages of our Children Save Ocean United Nations project, initiated by concerned children to clean the ocean. There are also several additional opportunities that might fit your interests. Please see more about the project at:
www.childrensaveocean.com
Check out the web site...the 12 year old kids have done so much, but for their vision to come true, we're going to need a little help.
We have several potential opportunities available where we could use your help, listed below in order of priority...though they are all important. Do any of these sound like something you’d like to bite into? Please let us know if and exactly which of these appeal to you (preferably more than one).
- Research on blogs: Environmental, ocean, pollution, eco, ecology.
- Research on contacts of any writers/magazines who/that mentions Boyan Slat, Ocean cleanup, Marcus Eriksen, 5 Gyres Institute.
- Research on Magazine and newspaper editors of: Environmental, children's teaching and education magazines. environmental press list: http://www.easymedialist.com/topic/environment.html
- environmental media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_media"
- forums: environmental, children's issues, education, teaching
- Run Twitter campaign. Twitter is both about finding and following people who do relevant work, and posting useful and/or compelling information about that topic. So, whenever you would have free time, you could research, follow and post. I’d additionally post occasionally. And importantly, you would help us decide the strategy to take, something you’d no learn about from your research. This would later be extremely useful to help kick this issue further into the public’s awareness, as you’ll realize when you dig into it.
- Research the process/costs to set up a non-profit in California; research funding options for a non-profit working both in areas of ocean conservation, ocean clean-up, and child education.
- Research Facebook groups about the following issues: activism, activist art, children's art, environmental, children's, teaching and education.
- Research contact list of university radio stations.
- Connect with prominent artists to raise money in Vienna, Austria (artists can be located anywhere-preferably representing the globe)- get pledges/donations of art; find email addresses of potential spaces for fund-raiser.
- Research potential big-pocket funders of contest prize for new materials (alternatives to plastic)
At our United Nations Summit in Vienna in June, 2018, we plan to have a "Volunteers" table, with nice pictures of volunteers who made wonderful contributions, with a bit information about your age, profession, location, and why you decided to help. We’ll take a nice photo of the table in the midst of the event and send it to you as a very small thank you. I’ll send you a form for this later after I’ve put it together. The press will certainly be there and see you if you decide to join us. :-)
Hope you join our team.
Sincerely,
Peder Hill and the kids
More opportunities with Kids Save Ocean
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Kids Save Ocean
Location:
Heissgasse, Vienna, Vienna 1230, AT
Mission Statement
Our core mission is to give children everywhere a voice about our planet's environment, a mission we currently approach through our mobile app development, our work with the United Nations, and our exhibitions. Integral to that mission is providing teachers with a platform to deeply engage their students about plastic ocean pollution, climate change and the critically related issue of sustainability. Why? Children deserve a voice in this world. And empowering them with one may just be the help we obviously so desperately need.
Description
Kids Save Ocean began in 2016 when teacher Peder Hill helped 12-year-olds build a 15-foot whale from trash to bring attention to ocean plastic pollution. Dissatisfied by their inability to have any impact, his efforts expanded to face-painting, exhibitions, the Children’s Clean Ocean Summit at the UN, and the Fatechanger mobile app. Along the way a global network of volunteers joined him, all drawn to the same simple powerful idea: give kids a voice.
The Urgent Need for Sustainability
Education is key to enabling us to transform our world into a sustainable one. Sustainability, however, remains unintegrated into curricula across the globe. Teachers everywhere, students everywhere, need powerful tools today to understand and develop a sustainable world for tomorrow. The future depends on us. There’s no time left to tiptoe.
A Unique Model - Learning Tools with Teeth
Kids Save Ocean’s Fatechanger app and its innovative teaching and learning resources will help fill both these critical voids, creating a platform focused on the visual and visceral issue of ocean plastic pollution (a topic directly connected to sustainability) to deeply engage kids and give them a global voice to impact these challenges - initially through facilitating and tracking a global letter-writing campaign, then through including them informally and eventually formally in the United Nations.
Volunteers power Kids Save Ocean. Please join us.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
October 19, 2017
SKILLS
- Data Entry
- Basic Computer Skills
- Internet Research
- Market Research / Analysis
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REQUIREMENTS
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