Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, has been shortlisted as one of the best 12 volunteering projects on the Web as part of the Discover Ev-volunteering competition. You can read descriptions of the finalists here and choose the projects that you think are the most valuable and deserve the financial prize to further their development. Here’s a step-by-step on [...]
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The Pixel Project launches “Paint It Purple”
The Pixel Project launches its second annual “Paint It Purple” campaign today. They’re getting everybody to “paint” the internet purple to raise awareness about violence against women and also raising funds for the cause via special cupcake bake sales. Watch this short video to find out how you can join “Paint It Purple” and visit [...]
Research Internship Opportunity with Carbon Leapfrog
Our partners at Carbon Leapfrog are recruiting a German-speaking Research Intern to be based in London to work on a new project that will build a vision for the role of communities in developing renewable energy in the UK. This project will enable the UK to learn from the experience of Germany and include arranging [...]
LinkedIn Launches Volunteer Experience & Causes Section
LinkedIn has just released a new Volunteer Experience & Causes section, giving the ability for individuals to highlight relevant volunteer experience at charities and non-profits, including the skills and functional areas in which they worked. And there’s more: If an organisation has a Company Page on LinkedIn, the volunteer will also be linked to that Company [...]
Cost effective social media for charities
Last week, our very own Dan Howe took part in a Q&A on the Guardian Social Enteprise Network. Below are his “best bits”, but you can also catch the rest of the experts’ advice over on the Guardian. Research your social media audience: There are some research tools out there, like Rapleaf, which can identify [...]
Bright One Announces the Launch of BrightWorks – a microvolunteering app for charities
We’re delighted to announce the launch of BrightWorks, a microvolunteering app from Bright One. Bright One has achieved great success in the past two years, all through the passion and determination of its volunteers (as we have no paid staff). But teams of volunteers can only achieve so much, and demand overwhelmingly outstrips supply when [...]
LearnAsOne invites you to ask Headmaster George a question
This is George, the headmaster at Simakakata Community School in Zambia. Simakakata is one of the schools that LearnAsOne, a charity whose vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to learn the skills required to develop the country in which they live, are supporting. You can read part one of George’s diary on [...]
A Jolly June Social
Last Thursday saw the latest Bright One Social take place, with over 30 people crowding into the back room at The Crown Tavern in Clerkenwell, London, to get to know each other a little better and find out what Bright One is up to. We had a fantastic time meeting our volunteers, those interested in [...]
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2 PR & Marketing Internships Up For Grabs at @BrightOne
Every day that Bright One progresses, we see the fantastic work that our volunteers do for charities and for Bright One itself. We want to help support more organisations with their communications needs. For that to happen, we’ll need more volunteers to work in teams and help these clients achieve their goals. But we also [...]