Are you interested in short-duration (few weeks to 6 months) Volunteering?
Are you passionate towards Food Waste Reduction?
Are you located in one of these SF Bayarea cities: Santa Clara, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino or Gilroy
If you said yes to all of the above, then you might find volunteering opportunities with Outside2Inside….read below..
Short-term Volunteering @ O2I
O2I Short-term Volunteers are those who volunteer for O2I on a short-term (~1-3 weeks to 6 months) basis that are mostly remote volunteering activities.
- The main responsibility of the Short-term Volunteer is to spread awareness about food waste reduction, O2I and its events through social media or through phone/mail/in-person.
- Share their experience of attending the event in social media or through email.
- Bring awareness through blog/social media posts, webinars, newsletters and articles in O2I Magazine.
- Share your experience of attending O2I event and food waste reduction in general.
- Practice what you learnt from O2I event in real-life situation and share it with us.
- You could write a blog/social media post about what you learnt from the event and we can post that on our website.
- If you are an artist, you can create food waste awareness through various forms of arts like painting, graphical images etc. and we can use that in our newsletters and O2I Magazine.
- If you have different innovative ideas of bringing food waste awareness, we will promote that idea.
- If you are interested, you could lead in promoting that idea by volunteering long-term with O2I.
Steps to follow for applying for O2I Short-term Volunteer Position
Step 1
Are interested in Blog Writing, Social Media Content Creation, Webinar and other Outreach projects
Step 2
Kindly highlight in your Volunteer application how long are you planning to Volunteer with O2I
Step 3
If Interested in O2I
each Volunteer needs to complete the O2I Volunteer Application and Questionnaire
Step 4
O2I will review the Application submitted and will get back to you if selected for the role
Volunteer Application and Questionnaire
Volunteer Application
O2I Volunteer Application Form to be filled out by short-term school volunteers joining Outside2Inside!
Volunteer Questionnaire
O2I Volunteer Questionnaire Form to be filled out by short-term school volunteers joining Outside2Inside!
Steps to do after being accepted as an O2I Short-term Volunteer
Step 1: Complete the General Volunteer Agreement form right away.
Step 2: Follow up with O2I on the activity you will be doing and provide regular updates until the activity completion.
Step 3: Sign up for any upcoming event from Event Signup Form (link provided below).
Step 4: Subscribe for the O2I Magazine by providing your email.
Step 5: Check out the O2I social media pages on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram and our blogs. (links provided in this page)
In case you are writing/social media post, articles for O2I Newsletter/Magazine, doing art work (painting, creating graphical images ..etc.), kindly follow the steps below:
Step 1: If writing blog/social media post, articles kindly follow the instructions for creating them.
Step 2: Write the blog/social media post, articles, proof read and make sure you follow all instructions.
Step 3: Submit the blog/social media post, articles for review.
In case you signed up for an O2I Event (webinar, in-person event ..etc.), kindly follow the steps below:
Step 1: Make sure you have completed the Volunteer Agreement, signed up for the event from and subscribed for our Magazine.
Step 2: Read the Event & Outreach guidelines document (link provided below).
Step 3: Read about O2I Prevent, Recover and Recycle pages and share any 1 topic that resonates with you in social media tagging #outside2inside, #reducefoodwaste
Step 4: Share about the O2I Event with your friends and family.
Step 5: If you are on Social media, share the event in your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram pages. (at least one of them). Invite 5 of your family & friends to attend the event.
In case you signed up for an O2I Event (webinar, in-person event ..etc.), kindly follow the steps below:
Step 1: Come on time to the event.
Step 2: Participate and enjoy the event.
In case you signed up for an O2I Event (webinar, in-person event ..etc.), kindly follow the steps below:
Step 1: Complete the testimonial and provide feedback while the event is still fresh in your memory.
Step 2: If interested, share your experience of attending the event by writing a blog about what you learnt from the event and we can post that on our website. Submit the blog to O2I via the submission forms.
Step 3: Practice one learning (like mindfulness, wonky produce recovery, “compost in a jar” activities) from the event and share it in your social media by tagging #outside2inside, #reducefoodwaste. If you are not on social media, you can email us at contact@outside2inside.com.
Short-term Volunteer Forms/Signups
General Vol. Agreement
O2I General Volunteer Agreement Form to be filled out by short-term volunteers joining Outside2Inside!
O2I Event Sign Up
Sign up for the upcoming O2I event here.
Short-term Volunteers Welcome to O2I
Welcome to O2I
A very warm welcome to the short-term volunteers joining Outside2Inside!
Event & Outreach Guidelines
Outreach guidelines serves to inform, educate and support event volunteers explaining the expectations while outreaching for O2I events!
O2I Social Media Accounts, Links and Blog Page
O2I Social Media Page
Link to O2I Social Media Page in Website
O2I Blogs Page
Link to O2I Blogs Page in Website
O2I Status Report, Time Tracking & Templates
On the day you are volunteering please remember to log your volunteer hours in the time tracking tools provided below. The volunteer time logged in by all O2I Volunteers is an important metric sought-out by the potential grantors while making grant decisions. Also, this is an important metric to get grant from Corporates as a part of their CSR programs.
Status Report
Volunteers are requested to use this tool to provide detailed status report of their projects to Outside2Inside! Check the Status Report tab in the document.
Excel Time Tracking
Volunteers are requested to use this excel based tool to provide status report & track their volunteering time with Outside2Inside!
Templates
Event Volunteers should use these MS Word, Excel and Power-point templates which has O2I logo for any project documentation.
O2I Blogs, Social Media Posts and Other Documents Submission Forms
In case, short-term volunteers are planning to write a blog (or) social media post (or) as a document/presentation, then they can use the following blog/social media posting guidelines.
Blogs
Kindly read the blog writing guidelines and submit your blogs using this form.
Social Media
Kindly read the social-media posts writing guidelines & submit your posts using this form.
Doc Uploads
Use this link to Upload any documents you would like to sent to O2I Board for review.
Post short-term volunteering and O2I Events experience Testimonial & Feedback
Short-term Volunteering Feedback
Time and again or during exit we collect feedback from our short-term volunteers about working with O2I to take volunteer experience to the next level.
Testimonial
We appreciate an honest short-term Volunteer Testimonial about your experience working with Outside2Inside!
Event Volunteering Feedback
We collect feedback from our event volunteers about working with O2I to take volunteer experience to the next level.
Volunteer Credits Request Form
Volunteer Credits, Verification
If you are a student volunteer requiring volunteer credit (or) volunteer verification letter, please use this form.Note: Please remember to log the Volunteer time with O2I and send the logged timesheet along with this form.
Past Volunteers of the Month
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