Community Organization Involvement in
Service Inclusion
To serve:
"You only need a heart
full of grace and a soul generated by love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How to Create
an Inclusive & Accessible Opportunity
Inclusive service descriptions should
clearly demonstrate the essential
and marginal functions of a position. Ask
yourself: Is the task critical to the
position? Will the nature of the position
change if this function is not
performed? If yes, this is an
essential function. If not, you're looking at a marginal
function - something that can be easily
reassigned and should not deter a person
from pursuing that particular volunteer
position. Making this distinction will help
volunteers with disabilities determine
for themselves whether or not the
position is a good fit. Be careful to write
both sets of functions in terms of the end
results, rather on the specifics of how to
accomplish them.
Click here for more information on
creating inclusive service descriptions.
You may need to make a few changes to your
site to increase accessibility. Did you know
you can often improve your site's
accessibility for little or no cost?
According to the Job Accommodation Network,
over 50% of accommodations needed by
employees with disabilities cost absolutely
nothing.
Is
Your Site Accessible?
Use this
checklist
to determine how accessible your site is.
Find Technical
Support
The following websites are good resources
for finding the technical support needed to
accommodate volunteers with disabilities.
Remember, accommodations are often free of cost.
Access to Independence
ADA and IT Technical Assistance Centers
Job Accommodation Network
Tarjan Center at UCLA
How to Create a Remote / Virtual opportunity
If your organization is currently
in need of volunteers for online research,
professional consulting, translations,
developing promotional materials,
data-entry, writing, editing, making phone
calls, etc., you definitely have potential
remote/virtual volunteer opportunities.
Remote/virtual volunteering is
convenient, beneficial and allows everyone
to contribute their time and expertise.
Are you good at communicating with your
volunteers via email and phone in a timely
manner? Do you have email and/or web
versions of all materials given
to volunteers at orientations? If you
answered yes to both of these questions, you
are ready to recruit remote volunteers.
Virtual Volunteering Resources
AARP Virtual Volunteering Resource Guide
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