With news on H1N1 coming in fast and furious — and from all corners of the world — Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary highlights the volunteer citizens who are helping to gather and analyze it for their fellow members of the public. In his post “Drinking From The Fire Hose,” Coston writes:
“With flu season [...]
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With H1N1 Flu News Breaking All The Time (& From All Over The World), Volunteer “Newshounds” Are Helping Collect/Analyze/Translate It For The Benefit Of Their Fellow Citizens
October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Pandemic Flu · Preparedness Resources · Volunteer Opportunities
For Fire Response, CaliforniaVolunteers Website Offers Guidance To Public Interested In Contributing $, In-Kind, Or Time
September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
CaliforniaVolunteers is providing a useful web page with a list of ways the public can help in the state’s response to the wildfires. The site, www.californiavolunteers.org/index.php/Disaster_Volunteering/detail2/, offers this short overview:
Due to dangerous wildfire conditions, please do not travel to the areas affected by the fires without explicit instructions from a qualified emergency response organization. In [...]
Tags: Fire Safety · State Preparedness · Volunteer Opportunities · Volunteering
As #Danny Moves By & U.S. Marks #Katrina Anniversary, 260,000 Volunteer “Storm Spotters” Keep Watch For Severe Weather
August 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
As Tropical Storm Danny moves up the East Coast and the nation marks the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it is a good time to mention a robust volunteer program called SkyWarn. I have wanted to highlight this citizen preparedness opportunity since being reminded of the program by the new (and helpful) Citizen Corps Twitter feed [...]
Tags: Hurricane Preparedness · Volunteer Opportunities
9/11 Day Of Service Effort Kicks Off Today; Sign Up For Volunteer Opportunities At Serve.Gov
June 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
As part of the Obama Administration’s voluntarism initiative, the United We Serve summer service program launches today. It will conclude with the National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.
You can participate in United We Serve events across the nation this summer by visiting the new White House website, Serve.gov (http://www.serve.gov/).  To encourage participation in [...]
Tags: Preparedness Events · Volunteer Opportunities
New York Mayor Bloomberg Launches “NYC Service” To Increase Volunteering; Emergency Preparedness Is One Of Six Areas Of Focus
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a new initiative, NYC Service, to increase volunteering in the Big Apple. Emergency preparedness is one of the program’s six priority areas. ”The NYC Service program has three main goals,” according to the City’s press release, “channel the power of volunteers to address the impacts of the current [...]
Tags: City Preparedness · Volunteer Opportunities
Give Valuable Blood, Win Valuable Prizes And Maybe A Date
March 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
As someone now benefiting from periodic transfusions, I’ve been promoting the importance of blood and platelet donations. I am also always on the lookout for innovative consumer marketing approaches in the preparedness area. So, I wanted to highlight two ideas I heard about recently.
First, I learned that the New York Blood Center has a ‘frequent [...]
Tags: Cause Marketing · Red Cross · Volunteer Opportunities
InfraGard: An Opportunity For Citizen, Business Involvement In Nation’s Security
February 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
One good way for private citizens and businesses to get involved in the nation’s homeland security effort is through InfraGard. I applied for membership last year and recently joined.
According to its website, Infragard is:Â
“an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent [...]
Tags: Volunteer Opportunities