BloggerCorps

BloggerCorps matches bloggers with activists and non-profit groups who want to blog and need help getting started….

The authors (a wide-ranging group comprised mainly of bloggers, activists, and tech organizations who work with non-profits) will post announcements on behalf of organizations who need help starting blogs or building blogging communities. The posts will be categorized according to the organization’s geographical location, and in some cases its main focus issue. Bloggers interested in helping that particular organization can express their interest in the comments section attached to that post. The organization will then decide which of the volunteers it wants to follow up with. All arrangements will be made directly between organizations and bloggers. Bloggercorps will not mediate. We are not raising money to put people on planes so in most cases the idea is to match organizations located in a particular place with bloggers living in the same place. If situations arise in which organizations cannot find volunteers living in their area, we may be able to point them to foundations or philanthropic organizations who might be in a position to help fund travel for blogger-volunteers. But we won’t do your fundraising work for you.

Sounds like a wonderful idea; count me in. Although FmH is primitive from a coding standpoint, I have been doing this for long enough to understand the mechanics.