Tuesday, July 07, 2009

reddit still feeding nonprofit needs

Last December, we announced a new kind of fundraiser. In '07 we teamed up with xkcd and you voted on donating to EFF. With the global economy tanking in '08, we thought we'd organize your talents to help nonprofits who needed the skilled volunteer time - FEEDaNEED was born.

We plan on adding a section to our new job board, but in the meantime, here's a pair of non-profits who approached us looking to tap into some potential volunteers from within the reddit community.
Snowball Express

Mission
Snowball Express started in early 2006 with a simple idea: Provide hope and new memories to the children of military fallen heroes who have died while on active duty since 9/11.

America should honor and pay tribute to the children of those military fallen heroes who have died while honorably serving since 9/11. In December of 2006, nearly 900 family members from all across America and the world gathered in Southern California for an unforgettable holiday gathering. Kids and widows discovered they weren't alone. And they found they weren't forgotten.

It was a totally volunteer effort which came together in just a few months to create the largest all-expense-paid gathering for the families of our fallen warriors since 9/11.

In 2007, another unique event was planned for the week after Thanksgiving. This time, over 1,100 children and surviving parents attended as guests of Americans, corporations, and service groups who donated their time, money and resources to create another healing event. Nearly 400 family members attended Snowball Express for the first time.

In 2008 a total of 1437 attendees came to the third annual event with over 900 children attending, many for the first time. Children who had attended previous events rekindled friendships with children met at previous years and new children attending for the first time were mentored by those who had been before. Emotional healing was occurring on many different levels.

Technology Needs
Basic website Management. Cleaning up the back end of their site www.snowballexpress.org.

Contact Information:
Roy White - Chairman/President (219) 924-9033
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The Uniform Project

Mission
Our project is a non-for-profit fundraiser for the Akanksha School
Project to fund uniforms and other educational expenses for slum
children in India. We've gotten lots of press recently, including
coverage on Kottke.org and Mashable, and in papers like The Guardian
and The Miami Herald.

Technology Needs
What we need is someone who can code/decipher GRAILS. The entire site
is built in Grails and the front end is mostly designed using CSS. For
the most part, someone who can tweak the CSS would suffice to make
copy updates on the site etc but for bigger updates around
functionality, we will need someone to get in there and mess with the
Grails code.

Contact Information:
Eliza Starbuck <elizastarbuck@gmail.com>


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