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A 3 page summary of the article Virtual Volunteering: Current Status and Future Prospects by Vic Murray and Yvonne Harrison. No additional sources cited.
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they do not need to come up with funds to pay individuals to help. It also brings communities together for common causes and goals without monetary issues getting in the
way of more powerful ideals. In our modern technological world there is something known as virtual volunteering. The following paper offers a summary of the research article Virtual Volunteering: Current
Status and Future Prospects by Vic Murray and Yvonne Harrison Virtual Volunteering The article begins by indicating that virtual volunteering has been going on for a long time through
people who utilize telephones and through mailing information. But, in more recent times, with the technological advances of the computer and the internet, people are finding that virtual volunteering is
a possibility for many individuals. They can assist organizations in ways they would not be able to in on-site activities due to their individual positions. For example, the authors note
that people who are physically disabled and thus unable to get to locations to volunteer, are able to become virtual volunteers. Or people who live in very remote areas or
are otherwise confined to their homes, perhaps mothers with small children, are able to volunteer without being on-site. The study focused on four different areas of volunteering, as it
involves virtual volunteering and volunteering in general. There was the "regional group" which "consisted of managers of volunteer resources who were members of Volunteer Victoria, B.C." (Murray; Harrison, 2002; 3).
There was the "national group" which involved managers from various volunteer resources across the nation of Canada, the "VOE group consisted of prospective volunteers looking for volunteer opportunities on the
Internet who logged on to Volunteer Canadas Volunteer Opportunities Exchange (VOE) Web site" (Murray; Harrison, 2002; 3). Then there was the traditional group of volunteers who generally had no real
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