Volunteer Opportunities
with Food for Life Global
We receive numerous emails every day from people all
over the world wishing to volunteer their time or specific skills
in furthering the mission of Food for Life Global. Because the
Food for Life Global offices located in Washington DC, have limited
space, most of our volunteers work from their homes. Food
for Life Global
is the headquarters for all the
Food for Life projects around the world, so we do not operate
an actual
feeding program, but rather support the hundreds of FFL Projects
around the world, including one in Washington DC. We do however
get directly involved in disaster relief operations by recruiting
and coordinating volunteers.
The following information should
give you some ideas on ways you could get involved in
helping Food for Life Global working from the comforts of your
home or office. For those who would like to get directly involved
in feeding the needy, please let us know where you live
and we will be happy to refer you to a Food for Life project
needing help in an area nearest you.
Food for Life Volunteers can be classified as one
of three types, depending upon the work they do: technical assistance
volunteers,
advocacy and direct contact volunteers.
Direct Contact Volunteers
 This type of volunteer comes into contact with a client
or service recipient:
- Assist FFL feeding programs by preparing
and/or serving meals;
- Assist with emergency relief projects internationally;
- Help build infrastructure for FFL projects;
- Provide medical assistance to FFL clients;
- Other professional pro-bono services
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Technical Assistance Volunteers
 As the name implies, these volunteers provide assistance with task- or
objective-based assignments, or a particular expertise. This group may
include both onsite and offsite volunteers. They may be responsible for:
Conducting online research:
- Finding
information to use in Food for Life's (FFL) grant proposal
or newsletter;
- Grant research
- Gathering
information on a particular
government program or legislation that could affect FFL's
clients
- Gathering web site addresses of similarly-focused
organizations
- Using online phone
books and web sites to update contact information
for a database;
Providing professional (pro-bono) consulting
expertise:
- Answering FFL's questions regarding human resources,
accounting, management or legal issues, writing a speech, developing
a strategic plan for a particular
department, setting up a video conferencing event;
- Translating a document into another language;
providing multimedia expertise, such as preparing a PowerPoint,
QuickTime or other computer-based presentations;
- Designing
FFL's newsletter or brochure, or copy editing FFL's publication
or proposal;
proofreading drafts of paper and online publications;
- Researching and writing articles for brochures, newsletters,
web sites;
- Designing or filling other illustration needs;
- Preparing
information for FFL's Web site;
- Writing a technology
plan, designing a marketing strategy, or directing other
types of organizational planning
and outreach;
- Making sure FFL's web site is accessible
for people with disabilities (508) compliance);
registering FFL's home page and other appropriate
pages with online search engines, directories
and "What's New" sites;
- Adding an agency's volunteer opportunities
into online databases;
- Doing regular searches for news
articles relating to an organization or a particular topic;
- Supervise
or moderate a discussion group or newsgroup that supports
FFL
or train volunteers in a subject via the Internet.
REGISTER NOW volunteer management assistance: managing other
volunteers in the aforementioned activities,
providing an online
orientation to all
volunteers with Internet access (whether
or not they are onsite or online volunteers), surveying
volunteers via e-mail about
their experiences with
an agency or program, keeping track
of volunteer hours, and entering volunteer opportunities
into
FFL's online
Volunteer Matching Database.
Advocacy:
 Posting information
to appropriate online communities (newsgroups,
lists, etc.),
preparing legislative alerts to be
sent via e-mail,
keeping track
of legislation that could affect FFL's clients; - Printing
FFL marketing materials (posters,
flyers, etc.) and distributing to
the public;
- Setting up
a fundraising events;
- Representing
FFL to green or vegetarian-friendly
businesses;
- Promoting FFL
through blogs and appropriate online
forums;
- Representing
FFL at green or vegetarian conferences.
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NOW - You can also visit our advocacy
page to download materials
If you are interested in volunteering in any of
the above way, please contact us via email
or call +1 (301) 987-5883
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