Opportunity Details

We are looking for volunteers to help out on McHappy Day - the largest annual fundraising event for Ronald McDonald House Charities Ottawa.

Here are the details:

DATE: Wednesday, May 8, 2024

LOCATIONS:
McDonald’s Embrun – 751 Notre-Dame, Embrun
McDonald’s Casselman – 11 Richer Circle, Casselman

SHIFTS:
7:00 am to 11:00 am
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

DUTIES:
- selling McHappy Day socks and accepting donations

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Shift One	no limit	n/a	n/a
Shift Two	no limit	n/a	n/a
Shift Three	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Each year, thousands of people across the country join the Walk MS volunteer team.

From registering Walk participants to providing safety and support for participants at the event, volunteers make Walk MS happen, and are the foundation of why Walk MS is the largest walking fundraising event in the country.

Volunteers make Walk MS possible!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

If you are interested in teaching our youth Documentary Film Camp, mentoring our youth, or just being all hands on deck for our Camp July 14- 26th, this opportunity is for you. This camp takes place in the metro Atlanta Area. Please list dates of availability when submitting.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
9:30 AM- 3:00 PM	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The company volunteer day is designed as a charity bazaar, organized and promoted by companies
volunteers. The idea originated and was first tested by a team of volunteers from Google, who within the
the event raised more than 11,000 CZK for Sue Ryder.

What does the Sue Ryder Home provide?
- introductory presentation about the Sue Ryder Home and the charity shop concept
 charity shop with complete facilities - you can choose the location P1 Štěpánská, P2 Ke Karlovu, P3 Italská, P4
Michle (in the Domov area), P6 Koulova or P7 Heřmanská
- promoting the Sue Ryder Home and Sue Ryder Charity Shops Facebook event
 support of the saleswoman on the day of the bazaar
-cash register
- use of unsold items after the end of the bazaar
- thanks for the volunteers
What will corporate volunteers provide?
- organize a collection of items suitable for sale in their company / among their friends (themselves knows best what colleagues/acquaintances like to donate and then buy)
- they will take care of promoting the bazaar among other colleagues, acquaintances ...
- they will invite shoppers
- transportation of items from the collection point to the charity shop as agreed by the volunteers of the company or will be arranged by Sue Ryder
- on D-day they will sell and serve in a charity shop

Opportunity Details

The role of the Post-Production Manager Volunteer for CrowdDoing's #SystemsChange Podcast is to oversee and manage the entire post-production process of the podcast. This includes ensuring that all audio and video elements of the podcast are properly edited, mixed, and mastered to achieve the highest quality sound and visual experience for the audience.

Responsibilities may include:

Overseeing the editing, mixing, and mastering of audio and video elements of the podcast
Coordinating with other members of the podcast team, such as the Recording Engineer, Audio Editor, and Video Editor, to ensure all elements are properly integrated and aligned
Managing timelines and deadlines for post-production tasks
Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as they arise
Ensuring that the final product meets the standards and expectations of the podcast team and the audience
Collaborating with the podcast host and other members of the podcast team to ensure that the podcast meets the desired tone and style
Keeping record of the the production process and providing reports and feedback to the team.
This role requires strong technical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work well under pressure. The post-production manager should be familiar with audio and video editing software and have experience in audio and video production.

Once you join the team as a volunteer, you will have the opportunity to participate in an onboarding process that includes raw audio, collaborators, and virtual convenings where we aim to support eachother in helping the #SystemsChange podcast by CrowdDoing happen. You'll also have the opportunity to network and collaborate with other team members with audio focused expertise, and to participate in collaboration across time zones and disciplines.

If this sounds like a role that you're excited about, we'd love to hear from you!

 

One example episode from the raw recording summarized:

This episode of the podcast is focused on discussing the importance of cross-sector collaboration in achieving a solar punk future. The speakers discuss the idea that each person has a unique idea of what a solar punk future would look like and that they are each responsible for stewarding certain dimensions of that future. They also mention that each person has different dimensions that are more visible to them than others and that everyone is in inter-reliance on each other to achieve a solar punk future. They mention that each person stewards a different fractal of the solar punk future. They also discuss the importance of diversity of thoughts and opinions in collaboration and support, the importance of interdisciplinary diversity in achieving authentic improvisational agency and the ability to thrive in different fields, and the idea of gaining depth perception into alternative futures through the ways in which we are revelatory to each other's perspectives.

 

Another example episode from the raw recording summarized: Overall summary: The conversation is about the idea of a ""solar punk"" future, where energy abundance is achieved through the widespread use of solar panels and other sustainable technologies. The speakers discuss how this future could impact various areas of society, such as mental health, musicians and their livelihoods, culture, and environmental causes. They also touch on the idea of nature immersion and how it can be used to improve mental health and address larger societal issues. Additionally, the conversation also delves into the idea of how music and musicians can be influential in promoting these values and ideas, and how new technologies can be used to create a sustainable economic model for themselves and their fans. Overall, the theme of the conversation is the idea of using technology and research to create a more sustainable and healthy society.

 

About CrowdDoing:

CrowdDoing.World

 

Mission

 

CrowdDoing.world believes in the exponential potential of global collaboration to de-risk and develop social innovations and leverage diverse capabilities to realize shared goals. CrowdDoing leverages multiple intervention points and under-utilized capacities to achieve operating leverage for systems change. CrowdDoing is able to achieve this kind of operating leverage for impact across our portfolio areas from homelessness prevention, prevention derivatives, health benefits from spending time in nature, medicinal foods for stress and anxiety, and preventing isolation as a side effect of virtual volunteerism. All of these are anticipatory solutions which allow people to get ahead of their risks of catastrophe. CrowdDoing leverages under-utilized capacities to make it feasible for our solutions to potentially reach the scale of the problems we face together.

 

What

 

CrowdDoing works in sustainability, anti-poverty, public health, education, and research. We aim to address UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond through our social innovation efforts.

 

CrowdDoing approaches each collective challenge through the lens of operating leverage for systems change via social innovation. This allows us to identify different under-utilized capacities that could make addressing problems in our society more feasible in the future.

 

At CrowdDoing, each of us adopts a dimension of a larger challenge. We collaborate within our convenient feasibility on this with others. We don’t expect ourselves to have every expertise. We rely on each-other.

 

We include broad participation by micro-leaders in systemic change through specific social innovations that we can build together.

 

Why

 

Service learning focused on social innovation can be efficient simultaneously at achieving impact, and at teaching skills needed in the future. Service learning and skilled volunteering have demonstrably been efficient and effective approaches to helping individuals acquire skills for a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world in a diversity of fields-from human resources to engineering to project management to data science.

 

CrowdDoing aims to scale participation through skilled volunteering and service learning opportunities to help enterprises and institutions foster social innovation. Better mental health, physical health and productivity among employees are among the intrinsic incentives that prompt companies to adopt employee volunteer programs. Learning, creating impact, and achieving mental and physical health benefits are intrinsic incentives that prompt employees to participate in volunteering & service learning programs.

 

Research shows professional development is most effective when hands on through challenging / new projects and experiences.

 

How

 

Micro-leadership at CrowdDoing means that while each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society, each of us does not take on the worry about the whole. We take on a level of responsibility that is safe for each of us to have comfort in.

 

Service learning combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Service learning and skilled volunteering helps to bridge skill & social innovation gaps to achieve sustainable development goals.

Opportunity Details

Work with the brand strategist on the digital channels like website, social media and physical product labels and blogs
Continually raise the bar on creativity, writing fresh copy that connects with the desired audience and drives action
Comfortably vary voice, style, and other characteristics demanded by the target audience at hand
Stay updated on appropriate style guidelines and brand voice for consistency in messaging
Write original copy and edit content for a range of communications materials
Collaborate with a team of project managers and sub teams of the project from concept development to delivery of final product
Present copy concepts and final deliverables to internal team
Revise copy based on internal and team feedback/direction

Opportunity Details

Nature Counter- Volunteer Engineer- React Native Developer/IOS Developer needed
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfGnXijZjF7q5aFwzNHfAo5OPAG0vu9Y/view?usp=sharing

Nature Immersion Research App- Volunteer Engineer- React Native Developer/IOS Developer needed

Extensive research has shown that immersion in nature has multiple positive benefits for individuals that can result in positive impacts on organizations and institutions. These include greater focus, productivity, creativity and sense of wellbeing; stronger social ties and immunities; improved self-esteem; and lower stress, anxiety, and blood pressure. [1]

 

Nature is often disregarded and heedlessly damaged by commercial actors such as banks and real estate developers in pursuit of profit; however, if these actors understood more about how nature can affect their employees, they would recognize that preserving nature and encouraging people to spend time in nature could actually increase the profitability of their ventures. Despite the fact that immersion in nature is a proven way to increase public health, individual focus and productivity, and general learning and wellbeing, it is not embraced by institutions as a tool to achieve these goals.

 

This project will increase the degree to which any individual, institution, or group of people can target achievable goals through immersion in nature; it will link specific amounts of time spent in parks to measurable outcomes such as increased productivity, social capital, and wellbeing.

 

Research has demonstrated that time spent in nature is good for humans. But there has been little research on the applications of these findings-on the practical advantages that companies, nonprofits , and universities could achieve month after month, and year after year by integrating nature immersion and nature flex-time into the portfolio of benefits that they offer. There has been similarly little research on how encouraging immersion in nature could help health insurers could help their customers lower risk and improve medical outcomes.

Clearly, there is a disconnect between the research and practice.

 

PROJECT OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to eliminate this disconnect between the importance of nature and how nature is treated. Our team of researchers and experienced practitioners believe that this disconnect is so ingrained in societies that it can only change organically, from the bottom up. We believe that when more and more individuals and more and more managers in businesses are helped to experience the positive effects of nature, and then enabled to identify ways to efficiently preserve nature without sacrificing personal and professional gain, then nature will become a more important a factor in decision-making. As individuals and managers become adept at factoring in the importance of nature in their personal and strategic decisions, they will be more likely to embrace the preservation of nature as a goal-one which the global climate change crisis makes all the more important. Eco anxiety can reduce mental wellbeing but eco-immersion combined with collaboration on nature-based solutions that benefit the climate can both improve the mental health of individuals and the resilience of the cities in which they live.

 

PROJECT APPROACH: Our approach is multi-pronged, inclusive, and collaborative. IIt ensures that all those involved are engaged in a democratized, federated, and localized manner. We have already developed a framework for a Nature Inspirer App, to be completed by citizen scientists, which can be tailored to local circumstances. The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

When organizations get evidence of increased performance, they are likely to make permanent nature-based interventions. For example, a hospital with two divisions could have surgeons in one division get ""flex time"" to be free to spend 50 minutes a day in a local park. (A GPS-enabled application would confirm that they, in fact do spend that amount of time in the park.) After a specified period of time, their medical mistake rate and burn-out rate could be compared with that of the surgeons in the control group. Each organization can choose to utilize research metrics and methods that have the greatest bearings on their needs. Research methods such as Networked Improvement Communities, Context Variation by Design, and Positive Deviance are examples of methodologies that have demonstrated that proof-of-concept experiments can be emulated and customized across a network. Our goal is to help individuals as well as organizations and institutions, by making it easy for them to acquire the health literacy to decide how much time in nature they need to achieve their goals.

 

We anticipate that there are metrics that can be gathered based on GPS data on time in the park, survey data, and integration of bio-metric data from wearable devices, employer productivity data, medical record data for health insurance use cases, and learning data for educational institutions. Research will be needed to explore how nature dose changes productivity and reduces corporate risk through preventing mistakes and unforced errors.

 

What would it be like to pilot ""nature flex time"" in a city? Diverse organizations would be encouraged to identify an aspirational goal for themselves. Can ""nature dose"" be brought into a continuum of social science research to be applied as a tool for violence prevention, improved high school graduation rates, and other indicators of community wellbeing? We think it’s possible, and emergent evidence suggests that this possibility is real.

 

[1] Paul Sandifer, Ariana Sutton-Grier, Bethney P. Ward ""Exploring Connections Among Nature, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health and Well-Being: Opportunities to Enhance Health and Biodiversity Conservation "" April 2015, Ecosystem Services 12:1-15,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270578344_Exploring_Connections_Among_Nature_Biodiversity_Ecosystem_Services_and_Human_Health_and_Well-Being_Opportunities_to_Enhance_Health_and_Biodiversity_Conservation



React Native Developer Needed
 
- Experienced React-Native developer to build cross-platform app for both iOS and Android platforms.

- Knowledgeable of modern JavaScript (including ES6 syntax), HTTP, and Rest API development.

- Able to utilize and debug third party dependencies.

- Able to build smooth UI and extend current functionality of existing code base.

- Experience with mobile application architecture.

- Aid in the development of end to end app design and CI/CD processes.

- Strong team player with focus on collaborative effort; a willingness to share knowledge and communicate across teams is vital.

Developor is for Nature Counter:

Nature Counter./Biophelia Counter

""A recent study of 20,000 people published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that people who spend at least 120 minutes per week - that’s about 18 minutes a day - in nature are far more likely to report being in good health and having higher psychological well-being, as compared to those who don’t embrace nature. People who spent some time in nature, but fewer than 120 minutes a week, ""were no more likely to report good health or high well-being than those who reported 0 minutes,"" the study authors found.""

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-exact-number-of-minutes-to-spend-in-nature-each-week-for-better-health-2019-06-21

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/health/nature-outdoors-health.html

 

120 Minutes per week in nature is also geo-locateable on phones. Have you gotten your 120 minutes a week at medium edose nature, or 90 minutes a day of high dose nature?

That is determinable by if your smart phone shows you in the park for how many minutes.

 

We aim to build an app that counts how many minutes in nature each week you have spent and reporting that back to the person. This is like step counts, but based on time in nature as walks through non-parks don’t count for the nature counter.


- Participate in weekly discussions across teams and stakeholders on ways to reach project goals.
Time-based nature benefits-
15 Minutes in Nature
Decrease in pulse rate by 3.9%
Decrease in systolic blood pressure by 1.9%
Decrease in diastolic blood pressure by 2.1%
Lower levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
Increased parasympathetic nerve activity and decreased sympathetic nerve activity. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to control respiration, digestion, and heart rate. When you are calm, the parasympathetic nervous system is increased, lowering your heart rate and respiration, and increasing digestion. In a stressful situation, the fight or flight (sympathetic) response is triggered, dilating pupils, increasing heart rate and respiration, which allows you to breathe faster.
Feel more relaxed, yet energized
30 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15 minutes in nature AND
Increased attention span
Reduction in depression symptoms by 7%
Reduction in high blood pressure by 9%
50 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, and 40 minutes in nature AND
An increased attention span with the ability to block out irrelevant stimuli and concentrate
A decreased level of anxiety
120 minutes (2 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, and 50 minutes in nature AND
An overall sense of well-being and happiness
A better, more restful sleep
150 minutes (2.5 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
Reduction in feelings of anxiety
Reduced need to ruminate on past events and focus on the future
200 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
The feeling of well-being and happiness

Nature benefits we're communicating:
Performance on backwards digit-span (a cognitively demanding task that requires directed attention/requires the person to block out irrelevant stimuli and focus) significantly improved while walking in nature Maintain the focus staring at something on paper better during and after a walk in nature. The ability to focus was not only recuperated by nature, but was even better compared to before going out into nature. A faster and more stable pattern of responding on the Attention Network Task Cognitive performance especially for self-perceived affect was found to improve significantly more after nature interactions compared to urban interactions. Overall, BDS ( backwards digit span) performance improved on average by 0.75 (SD = 2.11) points from pre- to post-nature interactions and 0.29 (SD = 2.19) BDS points from pre- to post urban environment interactions. Reduce the population prevalence of depression and high blood pressure by up to 7% and 9% respectively. A lower rates of depression and of high blood pressure. 3.9% decrease in pulse rate. Systolic blood pressure was lower (1.9% decrease). Diastolic blood pressure was lower (2.1% decrease). good reported health and high subjective wellbeing lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, lower blood pressure, greater parasympathetic nerve activity, and lower sympathetic nerve activity walking leads to improved psychological state, reduced state-anxiety and perceived stress

The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.

 

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

 

You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).

 

Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),

 

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613) ,

 

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?usp=sharing

If you have any questions about processes for joining crowddoing as a volunteer please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

Opportunity Details

CrowdDing has a volunteer opportunity for "ODOO Developer" (ODOO- Software Developer) to join our enthusiastic and highly motivated team. Please note that this position is suitable for anyone having a minimum of 1 to 5 years of experience with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.

Job Responsibilities:

Your Major Job Responsibilities as an ODOO Developer would be:

1) Take Initiatives for the required changes in software development process to manage overall quality.

2) Solve complex performance and other critical problems and architectural challenges.

3) Develop applications/features that affect everyday life.

Roles & Activities:

1) Design and Develop ODOO apps (new module development and customization).

2) Analyse the Scope document.

3) Create low level requirement document in discussion with different teams.

4) Follow best practices in Software development to ensure the readability and maintainability of the code.

5) Create custom module in ODOO to meet the specific domain requirement.

6) Follow source code checking process to maintain the code in Git Version Control.

7) Follow best practices for secured Software Development.

Required skill sets

Strong knowledge of Python and programming concepts.
Complete understanding of ODOO basic flow.
Knowledge of data models available in ODOO core.
Proven expertise in developing custom modules in ODOO .
ODOO Techno functional knowledge.
Experience in developing latest versions of ODOO and Excellent debugging skills in Odoo.
Experience in migrating from earlier ODOO version to new version.
Core knowledge about the current feature available in ODOO - Sales, CRM, Projects, Time-sheet, HR etc.
Knowledge in handling ODOO front end(XML and Java Script)
Good knowledge of PostgreSQL with ability to write SQL queries.
View customization - work on Widgets, Wizards, Java Script, view XML etc.
Q-Web reports creation.
Data import using ODOO import as well as custom import using Python.
Knowledge of Version Control System like git.
Knowledge of Linux flavored operating system

Opportunity Details

Shade is seeking volunteers to collaborate on expanding our fundraising efforts. As a small but growing non-profit, we are in need of ideas and implementation of new initiatives to boost revenue. When volunteering, you will participate in monthly strategy meetings and help execute initiatives as needed.

Opportunity Details

Make plans to support our community by spending your Sunday afternoon relaxing in a laid-back country atmosphere. Enjoy live music, wines, and shopping at a beautiful indoor/outdoor venue with five acres of cultivated vineyards. You could also take a hike along one of the trails that the Winery has to offer, or relax on the patio or by the pond!

What you can expect:

Indoor and outdoor seating over-looking the vineyard and pond as well as in the shaded areas
Bring your favorite picnic blanket or folding chair
Shop with local vendors in the shaded areas
Indulge in your favorite food from the food trucks
New to this year: Pre-purchase a glass-of-wine ticket directly from Lost Oak Winery! Until the event, they are $8.50. At the event, they will be $9.50. Every purchase helps sponsor this event! Follow this link to purchase: https://www.lostoakwinery.com/product/Glass-of-Wine-HH
Every ticket purchase goes to support the mission of Harvest House! We are in the business of feeding, clothing, and bringing restoration to people who are going through difficult times. We serve all of Johnson County and southern Tarrant County and need as many people as possible to partner with us to help achieve our goal. More information will be available at the Harvest House booth!


Early Bird Tickets: $15 until 4/22/23

Gate Tickets: $20

Children 12 and under - FREE

Scheduled To Appear:

Austin English / Jade Flores / Kyle Sherman / Lion and the Flame / and more

Available Shifts

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