Using your Multimedia Skills for Community Service

I began volunteering with a non-profit organization known as YWCA Girl. Typically, volunteering for such an organization would include going out to schools, tutoring and mentoring. I just received word that they (and other organizations like them) are looking for technologically-savvy volunteers to do things such as database maintenance, advertising and marketing projects, etc. for them. Non-profit organizations, such as this one, prefer not to waste their resources on hiring people to do this kind of work for them. Today, it is almost essential to have some sort of multimedia outreach to be well-known, and in order to fulfill their mission, these organizations need that outreach. I wanted to share this information with you guys, simply because it is a not-so-obvious way to gain some volunteer hours and to give back to the communities we live in. Graduate schools and employers love to see volunteer work and it is an added bonus if it is in the same field you are applying to! Try contacting some of your favorite nonprofit organizations to see if you could be of assistance to them in such a way.