Dot com staff attracted to charities

Howard Lake | 8 April 2001 | News

Workers who have lost their jobs at defunct dot coms offer a useful source of technical expertise to non-profits. Some US non-profits are explicitly trying to recruit them as volunteers or staff.

Workers who have lost their jobs at defunct dot coms offer a useful source of technical expertise to non-profits. Some US non-profits are explicitly trying to recruit them as volunteers or staff. In San Francisco, the Peace Corps ran an advertising campaign that read “Dot-Com, Dot Gone? Now it’s time to network with the real world: Peace Corps.”

Read The New Dot-Altruism by Reena Jana at Wired.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.