New service to recruit ICT volunteers for charities
Howard Lake | 17 January 2003 | News
VOLT is a new volunteer recruitment initiative aimed at Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals.
The new project is a joint non-profit venture between Prospect, a recruitment company for the ICT industry, and do-it.org.uk, the online volunteer recruitment service. It aims to connect ICT professionals with charities and non-profit organisations that need their help. Unlike other volunteering sites it focuses exclusively on highly-skilled ‘digital’ talent.
“The critical importance of ICT to charities and non-profits, and a growing sense of altruism and desire to contribute to the public good amongst ICT staff is what prompted me to set up VOLT”, said James Plummer, Managing Director of Prospect. “By partnering with do-it, we have been able to bring existing opportunities to volunteer within the not-for-profit sector to ICT professionals looking to help.”
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Volunteers will be offering a wide range of skills, from short term consultancy to help a local charity set up its PC network, to helping an organisation develop it’s Web site. They will be able to search for available opportunities via the VOLT Web site.
VOLT will be marketed both to individual employees and to companies’ ICT departments.
Charities looking to target ICT volunteers need to register their opportunities on do-it, either via their nearest volunteer bureau, or through the VOLT Web site.
UK Fundraising reported on the VOLT initiative back in December 2001 when it covered the initial online survey to assess the need. Smartchange, subsequently taken over by TimeBank, ran the survey at Volt!
About Howard Lake
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.