#Volunteering

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[transformativeworks]

OTW is Recruiting for Policy & Abuse, Translation, & TWC

Would you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? Do you have strong proofreading or editing skills? Are you fluent in a language other than English? OTW is recruiting volunteers! 

We really need volunteers who speak Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese-PT, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh.  

Help us signal boost or find out more at https://otw-news.org/53a6ncnr

[willpowers]

volunteering for your polling place is a good way to make a little money, get legally mandated time off work to do so, and help make sure we can keep voting tampering to a minimum

my dad (disabled ex military intelligence) volunteers every election to make sure that its not one thats 100% republican volunteers who tamper with ballots

if you want to help keep trump out of office PLEASE consider volunteering, having people in there keeping voting honest is so crucial in these times

[sharksandjays]

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!!!!!!!!

For the past two years I have been apart of a volunteer club that visits the United Learning Center (ULC) in Phang Nga, Thailand, a school for Myanmar migrant families. I heard so many stories there that moved me in such a way that I promised them that I would tell the world about it. I was honestly astonished that it didn’t have more coverage already. The world had seemed to forget them. So here I drew some of my interactions with them, my friends.

By sharing this post I hope to raise awareness both about the issue in general and to talk about the FED. I have worked with this organization for the past two years and they are the nicest people you have ever met. Their sole purpose is to help the people around them, the people struggling because of this war. They have changed so many lives and will continue to change more. But any and all help is appreciated, and I urge you to do whatever you can to do so.

For more information, go to FED website: fedgrassroots.org and follow them on Insta: @fedgrassroots

Thank you for reading. And to my Myanmar friends—မင်းကိုချစ်တယ်! ❤️ဘေးကင်းပါစေ။

[undertale-accessibility]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but we are currently looking for a volunteer 2d animator and a volunteer voice actor for flowey.

This is an example of what I'm looking for as far as Flowey.

https://youtu.be/Hi2OSeJ-Hw8?si=WPbxMK32BHtnXJtG

And attached are some examples of the animation we're looking for.

To contact me, DM me on discord. My username is "uvularbean81269"

Credit to Jockey for our Toriel design and existing animation, and credit to walkingmelonsaaa/spectroliteaaa for the frisk design.

[mindblowingscience]

Want to hunt for black holes, but lack access to a mountaintop observatory or deep-space telescope? There’s an app for that—and you can help out astronomers by using it. Developed by the Dutch Black Hole Consortium, an interdisciplinary research project based in the Netherlands, Black Hole Finder is a free program available both on smartphones and as a desktop website. After reviewing a quick tutorial, all you need to do is study images taken by BlackGEM, a telescope array in Northern Chile tasked with searching the skies for cosmic events called kilonovas. Although launched in March 2024, as Space.com noted on August 19, the project’s recently expanded from just English and Dutch to support Spanish, German, Chinese, Bengali, Polish, and Italian.

Continue Reading.

[degenezijde]

Inspired to volunteer, but can't in person?

People illustrations by Storyset

Here's some online options for virtual volunteering!

Doedat.be: help transcribe and describe objects from natural history collections. The projects keep changing, so there's always something interesting! You can do something that needs a lot of attention to calm your brain (like transcribing handwritten notes on bird eggs), or brainless tasks to do while listening to some music (like jotting down the number written next to a moss sample). Available in English and other languages.

Europeana transcribe: help annotate and transcribe European heritage, so they can be used for research and education. Documents in several languages since this is a European project. I've mostly transcribed Dutch and French here, but there's also Polish, Danish...

Zooniverse.org: help scientific projects by classifying data from scientific projects. This one is the internet's largest citizen science project, so you're in good company! And it has an app so you can do it from your phone instead of doomscrolling! There's projects on art, space, nature, climate... Also works together with NASA, so if you ever wanted to claim you worked for NASA, here's your chance.

The United Nations: The UN also employs volunteers, eg for translating documents. This one needs more dedication than the ones previously mentioned, eg because of deadlines. But might be interesting once you've warmed up to volunteering or if you really want to put your back in it!

Amnesty International: Amnesty has several petitions you can sign, letter writing actions, and also free online courses on subjects such as human rights or the right to protest.

[sarahmackattack]

"What does community organizing mean?!" is a question I have seen so much in the last 24 hours, & I completely understand. Last night at Teen Art Club, the kids were like "What the hell do we do now", and I was like ummmm whereeeee to begin.

It's really hard to know where to start when you've never organized before!

So, with that in mind, I decided to make a poster to hang on poles around the neighborhood with information to get people plugged into the community organizations that need help from volunteers.

People moving from (I love us Philly, but) better functioning places than my dear sweet Philadelphia often don't realize how much of the good shit happening in our neighborhood isn't from the city, it's from neighborhood volunteers. Our parks, many free events, that's all from volunteer labor.

One of the most important things that we can do to protect ourselves is building strong local community connections to weather whatever storm is coming. These groups help make those networks stronger.

My goals here are to 1) Make it easier for people to get connected. 2) Increase awareness of how much around here is done by their neighbors trying their best. 3) Help empower people to make the things they want to see happen, instead of waiting for someone else to do it. 4) Encourage collaboration!

So keep an eye out on poles around Fishtown and East Kensington if you're a neighbor 😘

Here's the link to where that QR goes https://www.dogoodshit.club/post/get-involved-in-our-neighborhoods

[stalltherain]

I was perusing kamalaharris.com and found a volunteer opportunity that's perfect for people who hate phone calls and in person voter registration.

It's registering voters by text. Seems like it's entirely online, so you can do it anywhere. There's a training bootcamp this Sat (Aug 10)

[pratchettquotes]

"We've got to get a third witch," said Nanny, trying to rearrange the parcels. "Young Agnes has got good strong arms." "You know if we was to drag her out of there by the scruff of her neck we'd never hear the last of it," said Granny. "She'll be a witch when she wants to be."

Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

[profeminist]

Want to help the nonprofits that are going to be supporting those hardest hit over the next 4 years?

You can donate your design, web building, copywriting, accounting, grant writing, and other marketing & development skills through the Taproot Foundation. You can donate as little as a 1-hr. consultation session, or sign up for a project that averages 3-4 hrs./wk. over 7-8 weeks. I've done a couple of projects through them so far and they're a great org. https://www.taprootplus.org/consultants

If you're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that can use help, it's easy to sign up! I've just obtained a volunteer designer for a new logo and brand style guide project for one of my nonprofit clients: https://www.taprootplus.org/nonprofits

Please share! THANK YOU!!!!

[transformativeworks]

The OTW is Recruiting for Policy & Abuse Volunteers

Would you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Read more at: https://otw-news.org/yckukpjf

[transformativeworks]

The OTW is Recruiting for Open Doors Import Assistants and Tag Wrangling Volunteers

Are you interested in the rescue and preservation of fanworks? Would you like to wrangle AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Portuguese or Spanish to English? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Read more at: https://otw-news.org/4kv4dcbm