Download MYS Thank YouMacdonald Youth Services (MYS), a Canadian-based charitable healing and support organization has been working successfully with highly-skilled online volunteers from around the world since 1998. With the new year approaching and when you can't just reach out and touch, how can a non-profit organization, such as MYS, communicate a personal thank you to their globally dispersed volunteers for making a difference from [...]

The World Volunteer Web is a global clearinghouse for information and resources linked to volunteerism. This excellent resource is developed by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in partnership with CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [...]

The ePhilanthropy Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, education organization based in Washington DC. They are the global leader in providing training to charities for the ethical and efficient use of the Internet for philanthropic purposes through education and advocacy. They have a bi-weekly newsletter called the e-Philanthropy e-Zine that is distributed to thousands of subscribers. [...]

"It is unusual for such an established charity (Macdonald started in 1929) to accept online volunteering so fervently ..." stated Pamela Licalzi O'Connell in her November 13, 2006 New York Times article about online volunteering. Yes, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS) is enthusiastic about online volunteerism. After recruiting and cultivating relationships with Internet-based volunteers from around the globe since 1998, MYS [...]

For the sixth consecutive year, Macdonald Youth Services' (MYS) Hong Kong-based online volunteer, Augustus Lo, has meticulously hand-coded Macdonald Youth Services' 2005-2006 Annual Report for Web publication. With Lo's painstaking precision, the Web-based version is close to a mirror image of the printed version.
The 44 page print version of the report was designed by MYS Saskatchewan-based online volunteer Virginia Dakiniewich. Some [...]