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Service Inclusion
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Service Inclusion To serve: "You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love." - Martin Luther King, Jr. How to Create a Remote / Virtual opportunity If your organization is currently in need of volunteers for online research, professional consulting, translations, developing promotional materials, data-entry, writing, editing, making phone calls, etc., you definitely have potential remote/virtual volunteer opportunities. Remote/virtual volunteering is convenient, beneficial and allows everyone to contribute their time and expertise. Are you good at communicating with your volunteers via email and phone in a timely manner? Do you have email and/or web versions of all materials given to volunteers at orientations? If you answered yes to both of these questions, you are ready to recruit remote volunteers. Virtual Volunteering Resources AARP Virtual Volunteering Resource Guide |
How to Create an Inclusive & Accessible Opportunity Inclusive service descriptions should clearly demonstrate the essential and marginal functions of a position. Ask yourself: Is the task critical to the position? Will the nature of the position change if this function is not performed? If yes, this is an essential function. If not, you're looking at a marginal function - something that can be easily reassigned and should not deter a person from pursuing that particular volunteer position. Making this distinction will help volunteers with disabilities determine for themselves whether or not the position is a good fit. Be careful to write both sets of functions in terms of the end results, rather on the specifics of how to accomplish them. Click here for more information on creating inclusive service descriptions. You may need to make a few changes to your site to increase accessibility. Did you know you can often improve your site's accessibility for little or no cost? According to the Job Accommodation Network, over 50% of accommodations needed by employees with disabilities cost absolutely nothing. |
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Your Site Accessible? Use this checklist to determine how accessible your site is. Would you like your organization like to be featured as an accessible site? Fill out the accessibility checklist and send it to Rebeca Mohr. |
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Find Technical
Support The following websites are good resources for finding the technical support needed to accommodate volunteers with disabilities. Remember, accommodations are often free of cost. ADA and IT Technical Assistance Centers Job Accommodation Network The Access Center of San Diego |
