Be a Smarter Volunteer with Your Smartphone, 2014 #TechPHX

Be a Smarter Volunteer
with Your Smartphone
Eileen M. Kane Eileen@EileenMKane.info @eileenmkane

We all have passions to help our community, our
environment, and our cities.
Many non-profit organizations need your volunteer
aid, but in addition to helping the various missions
of your own causes, you can help recruit other
volunteers, raise funds and increase advocacy with
tools found on your smartphone.
Save endangered species, feed the homeless, bring
non-profits into the 21st Century and become a
volunteer rock star.

Let’s Talk About Us
Master Gardener, University of Arizona
Maricopa County Cooperative Extension
Facebook/MaricopaCountyMasterGardeners
Arizona Herb Association
AZHerb.org
Desert Rivers Audubon
DesertRiversAudubon.org

Volunteerism
the use or involvement of volunteer labor,
especially in community services.

Formal volunteering: activities organized
through some sort of organization.
Informal volunteering: which can be one
component of social capital, refers to a wide
range of different kinds of mutual help and co-
operation between individuals within
communities.
Volunteer Strategy, The Scottish Government
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/publications/2004/05/19348/36996

Why People Volunteer
• Basic Level: Self-serving drive
(interns, political campaigns);
• Secondary Level: Relational drive
(recruited by friend);
• Highest Level: Belief drive
(passion for cause).
Thomas W. McKee, author
The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer

Millennials in Adulthood:
Detached from Institutions,
Networked with Friends
Pew Research, March 2014
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

Pew Research Internet Project
Young adults: Cell owners ages 18-29
are the most likely of any demographic
group to use their phone to go online:
85% of them do so, compared with 73%
of cell owners ages 30-49, and 51% of
those ages 50-64. Just 22% of cell
owners ages 65 and older go online
from their phones, making seniors the
least likely demographic group to go
online from a cell phone.

Non-whites: Three-quarters (74%) of African-
American cell phone owners are cell internet
users, as are 68% of Hispanic cell owners.

The college-educated: Three-quarters (74%) of
cell owners with a college degree or higher are
cell internet users, along with two-thirds (67%)
of those who have attended (but not graduated)
college.

The financially well-off: Cell phone owners
living in households with an annual income of
$75,000 or more per year are significantly more
likely than those in every other income category
to go online using their phones. Some 79% of
these affluent cell owners do so.

Twitter

#Hashtags
Events

#Hashtags
Campaigns

#Hashtags
Curate Engagement

“You’ve got 3 kinds of donors – the True Believer,
The Casual Fan, and The Reluctant Tagalongs.
Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to
yourself. It’s a platform to connect, to earn trust,
and for even the most reluctant of supporters to
discover just how much they want to be a part of
your community.”
Marc Koenig, Nonprofit Hub
Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Here’s Why You Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer

Your Blog, Her Blog, Their Blog

Blog It Now! (Event)
Upload photo and caption from
phone app;
“Checking out the many
features of the new Desert
Rivers Audubon Mobile App,
101 Birding Sites-Phoenix.”

Blog It Now!
First impressions (three sentences/one
paragraph);
Girls Use Tools @ Zanjero Park, Gilbert, burrowing owl release tent
construction. Release tent supports need to withstand wind & weather while
the burrowing owls are sheltered and fed for a month to acclimate onsite
before being released to the larger artificial burrow habitat.

Blog It Now!
End of day (results, group photo);
#StartupWeekend Chandler final pitches and Chris Stiffler Audience
Technical Award Sunday night.

Blog It Now!
Send photos and comments to organizer (before
leaving via email app);

Blog It Now!
Write your own blog:
• Who
• What
• Why
• Where
• How

Photo Groups

Facebook: Groups versus Pages

Pinterest
“P.ink provides tattoo ideas and artist info to breast cancer survivors.”

@Movember

http://www.handsonphoenix.org/

VolunteerMatch App

Fundraising: icangowithout

One Day’s Wages

HelpBridge
During disaster/crisis:
• send e-mail
• SMS
• to the communities
you select
• Post a message to
your Facebook wall
• tweet on Twitter.

OneToday

Check-in For Good

CharityMiles
How it Works
It's as easy as this: get moving.
Bikers earn 10¢ a mile and walkers
and runners earn 25¢ a mile, up to
our initial $1,000,000 sponsorship
pool.

Develop an App for your Cause
http://www.netsquared.org/
http://hacks4humanity.com/http://www.codeforamerica.org/

More Help
http://www.meetup.com/phxmobi/ http://gangplankhq.com/chandler/

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