Volunteer with URF in U.S or other Countries 
You can volunteer with us at the Richmond Office or work on a project right from home.
- US Local Volunteer Application Form
How you can help
Any little thing that you have to contribute makes a difference. Whether you are a teacher, an accountant, a web designer, attorney, a consultant, or just someone with a big heart, you have something that contribute to our work. You can help by organizing fundraisers, spread the word about our work, research funding opportunities from individual or corporate donors, speek at a local rotary or lions club, write grant proposals, edit newsletter, and many more.
Volunteer Work
Here are some ideas about things that volunteers can help with:
Uganda Rural Fund Volunteer Work, Summer 2008
- Organize groups to work at the Kings Dominion for fundraising
- Create display poster
- Create URF mailing lists for future newsletter
- Identifying and soliciting sponsorship for orphans and students in Uganda
- Research on various e-newsletter software - compare prices, features, and recommend best option for URF.
- Research similar Uganda organizations and create a database
- Research resources for teaching entrepreneurship
- Connect with Rotary clubs and Lions clubs
- Connect with local churches for presentations, donations, youth groups fundraising
- Campus Chapter manual
- Connect with campus groups and encourage students to form URF Campus Chapters
- Proof read teachers’ and students’ handbooks
- Update volunteer database
- Review fundraising and donor communication plan for implementation recommendations
- Updating a donor database (names, amount donated, when, towards what, etc-
- Writting follow up/updates mails to previous donors.
- Editing newsletters
- Researching potential funding sources
- Identifying local businesses that might support our cause - and contact them
- Identify and initiate partnerships with church or high school and college student groups/clubs
- Build a URF volunteer database - current and past volunteers
- Researching Uganda statistics
- Putting together powerpoint presentations
- Identifying fundraising opportunities - follow up and get something going...
- Identifying opportunities for in-kind donations eg computers, school supplies, cloths for orphanage, etc.
- We will try to identify some rotary clubs that might consider us supporting our work.
- Fundraisers: selling t-shirts or fair trade coffee to benefit Uganda kids (can be done at church or school campus or wherever you can identify buyers - it could be a few people you know). We have a design and you can come up with a new creative design if you wish.
- Arrange to speak/raise awareness at your local church, prayer group, or any type of group you belong to or know in the area.
- Garage sale fundraiser
- Online fundraising strategies, etc
NEW IDEAS WELCOME: Working on any ideas you may have -- please feel free to be creative and throw in your ideas as well.
Our Volunteers
Our volunteers are spread across the globe on different continents. If you would like to be part of this exciting movement, please contact us. You can be part of the team that is making a positive impact in the lives of many orphans, youth and underprivilleged women of Africa.
How to Sign Up: Complete the Volunteer Application Form
With questions, write to: Cynthia Cogswell at Email: ccogswell@ugandaruralfund.org or John Mary jmlugemwa@gmail.com
Volunteering with URF from where you live
Virtual Charity -
Objective: To create a virtual network of volunteers, and work together as a team to achieve the goals of Uganda Rural Fund in the effort to improve lives of children and people in poor rural communities.
In operating as a virtual team, volunteers can contribute their many talents in a more accessible way. Time and location are no longer set restrictions that prevent volunteers from helping. You can contribute after dinner from your own home, during a short lunch break from the office, or whenever and wherever it is convenient for you. In this way, we hope  to recruit the many different skills of diverse individuals, and combine them to promote this noble cause.
We welcome volunteers for the following opportunities:
Here is a list of the volunteer positions we would appreciate help with at present. If you have a different skill to offer, please do contact us to see whether it will fit.
- Advocacy: We are in a process of building a network of friends. You can spread the word about our work in
 your community. We have brochures you can pass out and encourage people to support our work.
- Fundraising: You can be a fundraising coordinator in your area. All donations to URF are tax deductible within the limits of 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Grant writing or research. We need individuals who can write grant proposals. You may also simply commit yourself to researching potential corporate and individual donors for our projects.
- Newsletter Editors: A quarterly newsletter will be published to update our donors and friends about the work we are doing. We need a volunteer to help with editing the newsletter.
- Collecting donated supplies: Our students would benefit from donated school supplies. We also in need of
 teaching aids, computers, printers, scanners, fax machine, textbooks, and medical supplies for the school clinic.
- Person/People skilled in crating computers for sea or air freight shipment (in Minnesota and Richmond
VA, or instruct John Mary Lugemwa by phone and email)
- Accountant, to prepare tax forms and financials (preferably located in or near Central Massachusetts)
- Non-profit business-management advisors (planning, budgetting, etc.)
· Local Support Team organizers and hosts for fundraising events
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