Hands On Bay Area

Business

Hands On Bay Area Day is an event during which twelve-hundred volunteers at 51 community service projects across the Bay Area completed more than 7,000 hours of service valued at more than $120,000. This day is also the biggest fundraising event for Hands On Bay Area, when a large part of its budget is acquired through donations raised by volunteers. It is an organization that provides year-round service to the community.

Hands On Bay Area is a unique organization with a mission to mobilize communities to action. Many people find it difficult to volunteer for several reasons: trouble choosing what activity to do; the long-term commitment often required by organizations; and the number of hours organizations request weekly or monthly of volunteers.

What HOBA does is eliminate these barriers by acting as a liaison between volunteers and organizations and coordinating projects that make it easy to volunteer and help organizations meet their needs. They use an interactive database and email to do so.

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NetSquaredCaseStudies

This is a visualization of the non-profit and supporting organizations using the web in innovative ways who have been profiled in the Net Squared case studies. (http://netsquared.org/catlist/list/1)

Please click on the titles of the organizations to visit their case studies on Net Squared.


Note that these are the locations of the groups' headquarters, and not neccesarily where they do their work. A map of areas these groups work in would likely look very different.