Voltage blog entries tagged with: community

 New York City has a great website/app that makes the question of ‘where/how can I volunteer?’ so much easier to answer. NYC Service can show you opportunities within your zip code or further, by skills or type of opportunity. I’m sure you can find something in here to help out with. With a site like this, I wonder if there’s a measurable effect of bringing ‘new’ people to volunteer opportunities, or if it just provides another way for people already interested to find out what’s going on. Even the latter is good, but for most people I think (at least, it is with me unfortunately) that even small barriers to entry keep them from volunteering more, if at all.