# Dot com staff attracted to charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/04/08/dot-com-staff-attracted-charities/
- Published: 2001-04-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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