Posts Tagged ‘short-term volunteering’

• “Volunteering is now cool” – rallying cry from rent-a-crowd for non-profits

  By Hannah Wright On 15th February 10

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  We were always going to fall in love with an “unincorporated disorganisation” who state their vision as “a world where volunteering  is as mainstream as cheeseburgers and breathing.” Youth Tree is a group of young volunteers from Western Australia who are shaking up volunteering Down Under.

  They’ve just launched the Big Help Mob, a diverse army of 100+ young volunteers who regularly get together to do favours for non-profits. Then they celebrate with “enormous, ludicrous flash mobs”.

  Any local non-profit can submit an idea for how this rent-a-crowd could help them out, via their website. The best ideas are taken on. So all kinds of causes, charities, people, animals or environments can benefit from a sudden, one-off burst of people-power.

  Did we mention that we love it?

  Tags:

  flashmobs, innovation, short-term volunteering, Youth Tree

  Posted in international volunteering, Spotlight