By Arlan Berglas
Online Community Service

The following 13 meaningful ways to do community service online have been approved by We, The World (a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization), to qualify as community service credit.  All programs are documented online so that the person that assigned your service hours can actually see your work.  Upon completion of your service time, you will receive a stamped letter as well as a certificate of completion from We, The World.  Please verify with the person that assigned your service that you can receive credit for online service prior to starting.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact arlan@wetheworld.org.

13 Meaningful Ways To Do Community Service Online:

1) PIF Mentor:  After a 30 minute online chat, the protege is sent the online script with directions on how they may now be a PIF Mentor too if they wish. You will also receive a free web page on this site. To see a sample web page click HERE.   PIF Mentors that are doing community service will receive one hour credit for each complete mentoring session.  A complete mentoring session is as follows:

a) Arrange to do a 1/2 hour online chat with a friend, family member, co-worker, or anyone who wishes to learn their purpose, organize their passion, volunteer their gift and engage their heart.

b) Go to any online chat room and go through the 30 minute chat process.  This time, you will be the mentor and they will be your protege.

c) You must make a copy of the chat and send a copy to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.  *Note* As soon as we have our new website www.pifmentor.org completed, this process will be done automatically.

d) Send a follow-up letter to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

2) PIF Research Director: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider contacts the charitable organizations (of interest to them) in their community and provides We, The World (WTW) with the nonprofit’s mission along with the volunteer coordinators name, phone number, email address and fax number.  In addition the community service provider will let the volunteer coordinator know that while they are doing research for WTW, they may also be interested in helping that organization online too.  Often, other charitable organizations may want to recognize their current and past volunteers by emailing certificates of appreciation that they can then download and hang on their wall.

If a community service provider is interested in this type of service, they will keep a chartshowing the time they initially contacted the nonprofit and the time they finished receiving all of the information.   To see the format for sending in research click HERE.

3) PIF Kindness Judge: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider researches people and organizations in their community that are Passing It Forward.  Passing It Forward is performing acts of kindness that do not involve money.  To see examples, go to PIF Programs.  WTW wants to highlight these heroic people and organizations on our website and we need your help.  As you can see from the examples, we are looking for people that are mentoring, creating their own videos about passing it forward, or want to start their own PIF Program based upon their purpose, passion, gift and mission.

If a community service provider is interested in this type of service, they will submit the stories to arlan@wetheworld.org.   A community service provider will be given 1/2 hour credit for each story published.

To see the format for sending in a story click HERE.  To see sample community service completion letter click HERE.

4) PIF Public Relations Developer: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider will receive a free web page on the www.aunitedworld.org site based upon their purpose, passion and gift and is encouraged to additionally go to www.neighborhoodlink.com and start their own neighborhood website for the zip code that they reside in and set up a free web page.  This online volunteer will become the LO.V.E. It Forward Ambassador, Pass It Forward Director and or We, The World Charity Consultant of their zip code!  It’s all FREE and the online volunteer can be their own administrator for their site!  See sample HERE.

5) Neighborhood Community Service Ambassador:  When you create a free web page on www.neighborhoodlink.com to promote the PIF Movement, you will receive 1/2 hour online credit.  Subsequently, every online discussion that you participate in (promoting PIF) anywhere on the web, you will receive community service credit as long as copies are sent to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

6) Community Service Online Promotion: This online volunteer can now promote their cause on many social networking sites such as Volunteer Match, Do Something, Create the Good, Facebook, and many more!  A community service provider will receive 1/2 hour credit for each new social networking site web page that they developed incorporating their their purpose, passion and gift while Passing It Forward.

7) Create Video’s and/or start your own Social Networking Sites:  Now you can Pass the L.O.V.E.  Forward by promoting your cause to help people, animals, environment, your school, cancer research, etc. Everyone has a gift, what’s yours?  Check out www.loveitforward.webs.com or www.drop.io/PIFMentor/media to more see samples.  For community service your time involved in creating videos and websites must be documented.  For more information, please contact aunitedworld@gmail.com.

Help PIF Create Online Questions to help improve a person’s self esteem and self confidence, we are asking community service providers to read articles of interest and then answer the questions pertaining to those articles.  Click HERE and choose a question # that is not bold. To see examples see the approved article questions.  We are currently looking for people to create the online questions for each article.  Also look at helping others build character by creating online exercises on self help & self improvement.  You will receive 20 minutes of credit for each new set of 7 questions created per article.

9) Answer Article Questions: Currently there are Judy Wright Articles and Everyday Articles, and Ezine articles that are approved for community service. You will receive 10-15 minutes of credit for each set of questions answered.  Or, you may wish to read articles about Creating a World Where People Act More Ethically and comment on what you read.  You will receive 10 minutes community service credit for each one completed.

10) Watch Video’s on the – Law of Attraction -  Building Self Esteem – Self Growth – 101 Power Affirmations -Human Emotions – 7 Habits – 7 Spiritual Laws – Dealing With You -Assertiveness – Momentum – Winners – Gender and answer questions.  You will receive 15 minutes of credit for each video.  Or you can watch the 43 Values Video’s, 20 Happiness Video’s, Get ur GOOD On Videos, and Self Esteem Online Community Service and comment on each one and send your comments to aunitedworld@gmail.com for community service credit.  You will be given 10 minutes credit for comments that prooved you watched the entire video.  If you can create 7 questions for these video’s you will receive 15 minutes of credit.

11) Search You Tube: We are in the process of creating online exercises to help build a persons self esteem and character.  If you have some online ideas for community service, we’d love to hear from you!  All exercises must be completed online.  Please submit all ideas to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

12) Transfer Pages To Our New Website: The new website will be the “My Space” or “Facebook” specifically for people and organizations that want to help and inspire others.  Our mission is for everyone to have the opportunity to have volunteer online PIF Mentors to help them L.O.V.E. It Forward and be able to pass their L.O.V.E. Forward. See sample of our new website.

13) Convert web pages to a different language: Now that the Pass It Forward Movement is in 191 countries, we are looking for bi-lingual community service providers to convert PIF pages to different languages.  Currently, you will notice if you place your mouse over a word, you will be able to see that word in multiple languages.  If you are bi-lingual, please send an email to aunitedworld@gmail.comto discuss this further.

This article has been reprinted with express permission of onekindgame.org, 2010.