Volunteer Application
Please copy and paste the following application into an email and send your answers to info@ahem.info:

Your Name (first and last, please, not your screen name):

Daytime Telephone Number (required):

Email Address (required -- if you do not type this in completely and accurately, we will be unable to respond to you!!):

Re-enter Email Address (required):

Street Address:

City/Town:

State:

Zip Code:

If you have your own Web site (even a personal one), what is the URL?

How did you hear about Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts? (how and why did you find our Web site? if you were using a search engine, which one and what keywords were you using?)

Why do you want to volunteer with AHEM?

What aspects of AHEM interest you in particular?

How would you like to help AHEM as a volunteer? (Please be as specific as possible)

What do you hope to accomplish as a result of your volunteering with AHEM? (what benefits do you hope to gain by your work with us, and how do you want AHEM and the audiences it serves to benefit from your work with us?)

How many hours a month would you like to volunteer with AHEM?

If you are in the Boston, Massachusetts area and want to volunteer onsite, what time(s) of day would you like to work as a volunteer with us? (write in "N/A" if you are not in Boston, MA area)

For what other organizations have you been a volunteer or intern, on or offline?

What sort of activities have you done as a volunteer or intern, on or offline?

What did you like about your other volunteer or intern experiences?

What did you dislike about your other volunteer or intern experiences?

Are you on a Macintosh or an IBM/Clone PC? (either is fine, but we need to know how to save files so we can send you files in the proper format)

What is the name of the anti-virus program on your computer, and do you know how to use it?

Do you back up your computer at least monthly? (do you regularly copy your files to a zip disk, to a network or to floppies)

Who else has access to your computer and can you make files on your computer password protected? (in case we want to give you an assignment that requires a degree of confidentiality)

The following questions are to assess your computer skills and related-experiences that can help in matching you to assignments. You do NOT have to possess all of these skills, or even most of them, to be able to volunteer with us:
• do you know how to use Web search engines and, if so, which ones do you use regularly?

• do you know how to create .HTML pages?

• do you know how to create .cgi/.pl files? (for automated forms)

• can you use FTP to send a file?

• do you know how to email a document as an attachment?

• do you know how to work with spreadsheets or databases, and, if so, which ones have you worked with?

• are you a native speaker or fluent in a language other than English and, if so, what languages?

• do you have any other skills or experience that you hope to use or expand through a virtual assignment?

Back to Virtual Volunteers.

Information on this page is from the Virtual Volunteering Project, http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/, part of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs.

The information on this website does not constitute legal advice; it is provided for informational purposes only.