Opportunity Details

--Volunteers are needed on race course to help encourage/cheer/direct participants
--Registration help the morning of the event, handing out packets to runners as they check-in
--Pass out participation medals to runners as the cross the finish line
--assist with tear down of event/Pinnacle Hills Promenade, Suite # tbd

REFRESHMENTS & FUN PROVIDED!

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

We will be filling goodie bags for the participants of the 25th Annual Race to Hydrate & Youth Run and completing other small tasks to prepare for race day.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Friday Volunteers	3	n/a	n/a
Saturday Volunteers	3	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Volunteers are needed as we develop a very special place for all children with special needs in the Rio Grande valleyincluding interactive trails with sensory gardens.

Opportunity Details

Who We Are

Edu Child Foundation Uganda (www.ecfug.org) is a registered charitable organization based in Nebbi District (Uganda) with a strategic vision of creating a world in which children are empowered, protected, and given opportunities to live to their fullest potential. This we are doing by tackling illiteracy, early marriage, and poverty affecting the underprivileged in Ugandan rural communities.

Our current program areas include 1] the provision of education sponsorship opportunities for orphans and vulnerable children, 2] promotion of STEM education in rural communities served in Uganda, 3] advocacy for girl child empowerment, 4] micro-enterprise development for vulnerable groups, 5] community health, among others.

As an organization, we are always on the look for people who are excited about offering their time, skills, and resources to serve the yet vulnerable families in rural communities. We do this through our well-developed Volunteer Programme.

Edu Child Foundation Uganda relies on volunteers like you to help yet disadvantaged children, families, and communities in need to realize their dreams of enjoying holistic living. With help and support from volunteers, we are able to change the lives of children, vulnerable girls, and families in rural Uganda.

Who can volunteer?

We accept individuals, professionals, seniors, students, retired, couples, and anyone willing to make a difference in the lives of yet vulnerable children, and families in rural communities.

How long can you volunteer?

The choice is yours. However, in order to create a long-lasting relationship, we hope you can stay volunteer with us for at least 12 weeks. If you like it here, you can stay with us for up to a year.

CALL FOR GLOBAL AMBASSADORS

We need volunteers to take on the fun and inspiring role of being one of our Global Ambassadors. As our Global Ambassador, you will take on the noble cause of helping us in the mobilization of much-needed resources to enable us to continue with our fight against illiteracy, early marriage, and poverty affecting the underprivileged in the Ugandan rural community of Nebbi.

This is a self-led remote/virtual volunteering role where you will be able to draw on your creativity to complete fundraising challenges or events.

This opportunity is available to everyone and is especially great if you desire to support a community empowerment cause that is impacting don't he lives of the yet-underprivileged rural children, especially young girls whose futures are at stake due to social prejudice and abuses.

The sky’s the limit on how you can volunteer. Here are some ideas to get started:

• You can do a Sponsored walking or running challenge
• You can organize a fundraising brunch/lunch/dinner
• Set up a crowdfunding cause on our behalf
• Encourage your friends, family and followers to donate to our causes
• You can also do a spring clean, and an online auction of what you find.
• You can organize a speaking engagement at your workplace or church to share our causes with the people; among others.

To help you with all your fundraising efforts, we will provide you with all information you need for devising, promoting, and running your fundraising activities. ECFUG staff will be on hand to provide advice and support.

As a self-led role, you can decide how much time you want to commit. Our action plan is based on at least an hour a week for at least 12 weeks, but we welcome longer or shorter volunteering hours – whatever you think you need to complete your amazing fundraising project!

Next Steps
When you register your interest in this opportunity, we will get in touch to discuss it. If you have not heard within 14 days please email info@ecfug.org

ECFUG Inclusivity
ECFUG is committed to promoting the fair and equal treatment of everyone who benefits from our work. Inclusivity is one of the virtues which underpin everything that we do. Our top priority is to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all of our beneficiaries, employees, and volunteers.

ECFUG and Safeguarding
ECFUG is committed to safeguarding and ensuring the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all volunteers to share this commitment.

The suitability of all prospective volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.

Code of Conduct
We ask that you adhere to our volunteer Code of Conduct. We want you to have a great time with us, but we do need to share with you what will happen if things go wrong.

ECFUG is committed to ensuring the safety of our staff, beneficiaries, and volunteers. This means that ECFUG will terminate immediately any volunteer where an individual poses a risk to themselves or others, where their actions bring ECFUG into disrepute, or where volunteers have breached any Ugandan law.

Other Areas To Serve?

Volunteering is an excellent way to support Edu Child Foundation Uganda! We are constantly looking for all kinds of people who can help us to achieve our vision of creating a world in which children are empowered, protected, and given opportunities to live to their fullest potential.

Depending on your passion, you can serve in a wide variety of ways as a volunteer. For example, here are some of the possible areas of work that you could be involved with:

Social Media, and Website management, Photography and filming, Education Sponsorship Management, Instruction in Basic Computer Skills, Child Support and Mentorship, Advocacy for Girl Child Empowerment, Vocational and hands-on skills training for yet vulnerable girls, Mentoring rural women entrepreneurs, project/office support work, and Medical care for yet vulnerable families.

Note: Some of these other areas of volunteering will require you to physically come to Uganda and get involved in the communities we serve.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Funfest is the largest annual fundraiser for the Autism Society of Nebraska. Funds raised help with support groups, outreach, activities, education and more. We keep most of our events low or no cost and subsidize with funds raised at the event. It is a giant community party with fun and activities for people and families with someone on the autism spectrum as well as families from the community.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General Help 11:30am-4:30pm	50	n/a	n/a
Cleanup 2:30-4:30pm	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

React Native Full Stack Developer (visual guide)- Biophelia Theme
: 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.

[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

 

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities
Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side and server-side architecture
Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Write effective APIs
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Create security and data protection settings
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

You can see the benefits of time in the park put on Nature Counter's linkedin page here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd, You can see more background on our Nature Counter team here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd. You can see a post about how just 30 minutes a week in nature reduces the chance of depression by 7%.
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

#forestbathing ""forest bathing program significantly reduced pulse rate and significantly increased the score for vigor and decreased the scores for depression, fatigue, anxiety, and confusion. Urinary adrenaline after forest bathing showed a tendency toward decrease. Urinary dopamine after forest bathing was significantly lower than that after urban area walking, suggesting the relaxing effect of the forest bathing. Serum adiponectin after the forest bathing was significantly greater than that after urban area walking.""


https://time.com/5259602/japanese-forest-bathing/


 

3 days ago

""immersion in the forest environment and conscious activation of the senses [58,59,60] (for an overview of example exercises carried out during forest bathing, see McEwan et al. [61]). Originally conceptualized as a form of preventative healthcare, forest bathing is now used as a targeted intervention for specific mental health issues and forms part of the national health service in Japan [59]. Over the past two decades, considerable emerging evidence around the efficacy of forest bathing as a therapeutic practice has been developed, principally stemming from Japan and South Korea [62,63].

A systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by Kotera et al. [11] outlines the evidence in support of forest bathing as an effective mental health therapy, with regards to its capacity to alleviate short-term mood disturbance. Forest bathing could be a suitable therapy, given it is a relatively safe and gentle practice, carried out in a supportive environment. It has been recommended as effective in the treatment of anxiety [11], depression [64], and addiction [58], and has been studied as an intervention for inpatients experiencing affective and psychotic disorders [65]. Miyazaki [59] additionally found support for forest bathing’s capacity to increase positive psychological resources, while improving the cardiovascular, immune, and respiratory systems.

Biophilia [66], the predominant theoretical framework used in the East, and Attention Restoration Theory [67,68] have been suggested as contributing to forest bathing’s therapeutic effects. "" #wellbeing



"" Forty-two articles that tested natural environments or stimuli against a suitable control, and included an objective measure of cognitive performance, had been published since July 2013. Articles were subjected to screening procedures and quality appraisal. Random effects meta-analyses were performed to calculate pooled effect sizes across 8 cognitive domains using data from 49 individual outcome measures. Results showed that working memory, cognitive flexibility, and to a less-reliable degree, attentional control, are improved after exposure to natural environments, with low to moderate effect sizes."" #attentionrestorationtheory#forestbathing

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30130463/


 

2 weeks ago

""In 2015, there was a journal article published in the Ecosystem Services by Paul Sandifer, Ariana Sutton-Grier, and Bethney Ward. It offers the most comprehensive list of benefits from spending time outdoors.

 

These include: reduced stress, depression, dejection, anger, aggression, frustration, hostility, illness and sick leave, and increased self-esteem, psychological well-being, opportunities for reflection, creativity, etc""

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-can-nature-help-my-business-anja-falk-rye-olsen/?trackingId=5U9B8oA6DTqJphY4jd0N7g%3D%3D


""In one study, University of Michigan students were given a brief memory test, then divided into two groups. One group took a walk around an arboretum, and the other took a walk down a city street. When the participants returned and did the test again, those who had walked among trees did almost 20% percent better than they had first time. The people who had taken in city sights instead did not consistently improve."" #biophelia

http://www.breseefinancial.com.advisor.news/being-outside-can-improve-memory-fight-depression-and-lower-blood-pressure-here-are-12-science-backed-reasons-to-spend-more-time-outdoors/?c=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJub2RlX2lkIjoxMTMyMCwicHJldmlldyI6ZmFsc2UsImNvbW1faWQiOjI1NDkxODgsImRlc3RfaWQiOjM0ODM1ODAsInJlYWRlcl9pZCI6bnVsbH0.7coT-S8RhJPEb63bdhUdfHBQbl14RrSefSbMRxwgUK4


""A study published in 2010 evaluated the effect of forest bathing on immune function. For a group of Japanese adults, a three-day trip to the forest increased the number of white blood cells in their blood. These levels of white blood cells stayed elevated for more than 30 days after their adventure in the woods. "" #health#wellness#preventionworks

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-reasons-why-being-outside-important-benjamin-trengrove/


""It's estimated that between 60-90% of doctor's visits in the US are stress related(3). ... the University of Sussex claims a nature walk reduces stress only by 42%"" #mentalhealth#wellness

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forest-bathingwithout-water-weinstein-ms-rn-crni-facw-faan/?trackingId=uJ%2FmIJN0JzKRH4Iaqwqaqw%3D%3D


""experiencing nature. Strayer asserts, ""Our brains aren’t tireless three-pound machines; they’re easily fatigued When we slow down, stop the busywork, and take in beautiful natural surroundings, not only do we feel restored, but our mental performance improves too."" Strayer has demonstrated this concept with a group of Outward Bound participants, who performed 50 percent better on creative problem-solving tasks after three days of wilderness backpacking."" #creative#wellness#wellbeing

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/health-effects-interacting-nature-mimi-guarneri-md-facc-abihm/?trackingId=lwV8JIb8Eu72%2BxEgq3GfGA%3D%3D


 

2 weeks ago

""Yoshifumi Miyazaki noted that, of the 7 million years human beings and their direct ancestors have been alive, we have lived in nature for 99.99% of that time. Therefore, it’s a very small percentage of time we have lived in the urban environments that we have created!

 

We are really adapted to living in nature. So living in these artificial environments actually creates stress on our bodies. We are made to be in nature and our bodies and brains respond well to it."" #naturalworld#scienceandenvironment#biodiversity#conservation

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forest-bathing-viv-kenchington/



""The joy of engaging with nature is that it can lower stress, relieve anxiety, elevate your mood, enhance self-esteem, stimulate creativity and improve working memory."" #forestbathing#wel#wellbeing#lifestylemedicine

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boost-your-mental-well-being-2019-neil-jones-/


""n the last few decades, we have discovered that as adults we have what is called *neuroplasticity*. This means we are not doomed to live with the consequences of the things that have happened to us, but actually have the deep ability to create new connections and ""rewire"" parts of our brains.


Here’s where it gets really interesting and FUN. ☀️


It takes over 400 repetitions to create a new synapse (connection) in the brain.

Opportunity Details

Job Responsibilities
Develop, implement, and track marketing programs such as email, social media, or digital campaigns, and events
Collaborate with other internal teams (e.g. product and leadership) to develop and monitor strategic marketing initiatives
Analyze and report on the performance and efficiency of campaigns across multiple channels (e.g. email and social media)
Conduct market research and analyze trends to identify new marketing opportunities
Write, proofread, and edit creative and technical content across different mediums (.g., website, email, blogs, social media, press releases and podcasts)
Work with leadership to establish brand guidelines, metrics, and standards


""To help support you joining the right part of CrowdDoing for you, please use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftd6E0tyV2uq7mMty1rZ80BB2MSGhbnof9gRBvaQXbrttIkg/viewform?usp=sf_link""

Mission Statement: CrowdDoing.world's Foods.& Herbs for Stress,Sleep & Anxiety Initiative aims to give people agency by educating people about their options with regards to their natural remedies for these aspects of their mental health. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science, and recommending to individuals optimal combinations of teas, tinctures, and powders that can be used to achieve each individual's mental health goals. We conduct this research with the goal of allowing people to make informed decisions about their health and to increase access to healthy stress-coping alternatives. These healthy coping mechanisms can reduce reliance on harmful self-medication practices such as alcohol abuse or behavior likely to lead to opioid addiction. Value Proposition: Tinctures, teas and powders from herbal medicine combinations can represent better risk/reward ratios Through citizen science and data science over time we have the aspirational goal to meet and exceed evidence parity with regards to evidence of effectiveness for herbal medicines for stress & anxiety compared with pharmaceuticals. That mission is attractive for people to participate in as its an opportunity for global collaboration to create increasingly usable natural medicine for stress and anxiety. Each person can go upstream of their mental health challenges and adopt healthier coping mechanisms.


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 about Micro-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

Junior Instructional Design Volunteer (Attention Restoration Theory) at CrowdDoing.world

Role Summary:
We are looking for an aspiring Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences. Are you passionate about learning new skills and teaching others? Then this role is for you.

Essential Tasks:

Designs and develops learning programs in accordance to CrowdDoing's Service Learning model.
The Junior Instructional Designer will work in consultation with the Learning and Development Lead or Senior Instructional Designers to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate CrowdDoing’s learning initiatives.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with volunteers, focus groups, or consultation with Learning and Development lead or Sr. Instructional Designers.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for volunteers.
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Partners and collaborates with other departments to pilot or implement initiatives that require learning professional support.

Skills & Competencies:
Sincere commitment to work collaborating with all constituent groups, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
Receptive to feedback and is able to work upon areas of opportunity for improvement.
Actively looks for ways to learn and improve output.
Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization.
Skills:
Learning Strategies , Instructing, Active Listening,Coordination,Critical Thinking , Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Persuasion Time Management , Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis and Negotiation.


Working knowledge of LMS, e-learning content authoring tools, Microsoft office and google suite.


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.Micro-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.

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

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

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

 

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

Opportunity Details

CrowdDoing Service Learning https://learn.crowddoing.world/ Instructional Coordinator Volunteer

CrowdDoing Service Learning Training Director Volunteer
CrowdDoing aims to show how social innovation can scale to the scope of our collective challenges by leveraging under-utilized capacities and how it can drive new participation by individuals and institutions to make that possible. Social innovations and social enterprises have insufficient support today to address Sustainable Development Goals. Organizations in both the public and private sector meanwhile face a shortage of skills for navigating a world increasingly challenged by VUCA - ""volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.""

A study of CEOs conducted by IBM found that ""rapid escalation of complexity is the biggest challenge confronting [the world’s public and private sector leaders]."" . Research has connected the increase in VUCA as a critical cause of the doubling of the ""topple rate,"" the rate at which ""big companies lose their leadership positions"". Research finds that the current approach to training for a VUCA world isn’t working . CrowdDoing conducted primary and secondary research on what effectively prepares workers of the future for a VUCA world. The authors of this paper studied the evidence of what kinds of education and training prepare individuals with the skills of the future that a VUCA world demands. This report lays out CrowdDoing’s findings.

In sum, this report indicates that service learning and skilled volunteering have demonstrably been efficient and effective approaches to helping individuals acquire skills for a VUCA world in a diversity of fields-from human resources to engineering to project management to data science. This report builds upon both primary research from CrowdDoing’s experience and secondary research into evidence of service learning’s effects, skilled volunteering and its effects, ad cases I which service learning ad skilled volunteering have been applied to social innovation

The report is meant to help organizations understand how virtual service learning & skilled volunteering can help organizations overcome current and future skills deficits in their workforce. It is also meant to help individuals appreciate the ways in which participation in social-innovation-oriented skilled volunteering can accelerate their problem-solving abilities... and make employees under their supervision more effective.

On the basis of our primary and secondary research, CrowdDoing recommends that each organization consider the CrowdDoing paradigm as viable preparation for an increasingly VUCA world. Helping individuals grapple with complex systems and their consequences for stakeholders through skilled volunteering and service learning in support of social innovation can help give them skills that can help them succeed in a VUCA world.

There is increasing evidence of an ""executive skills gap"" - a gap between the skills needed to cope with a volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA) business landscape and the skills being imparted by executive development programs. This gap is ""increasingly obvious-and, costly."" This volatility-a cause of companies losing leadership positions vis a vis the ""topple rate"" - also relates to the increasing inter-connectedness of the world and the decreasing length of the period during which current skills remain current. ""Many executives have acknowledged the extreme compression of the time scale on which dramatic change occurs at the technological, industry, customer demographics and preferences, organizational, operational, and interpersonal levels. A pharmaceutical executive observed: ""Ten years ago we had a decade to adjust and prepare for what was coming, but today the adjustment cycles are much shorter. How do you prepare for that?""

This challenge has been building for some time. Already in 2010, IBM’s ""Capitalizing on Complexity: Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer Study"" reported that the complexity of operating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world is the ""primary challenge of CEOs."" Since then research has connected the increase in VUCA as a critical cause of the doubling of the ""topple rate,"" the rate at which big companies lose their leadership positions, suggesting that even ""winners"" are in a precarious positions.""

VUCA has come to intersect with each professional role, including that of project management. One example of research in this area is Booz Allen Hamilton’s ""Redefining Program Management for the Unique Challenges of Complex Programs,"" which identifies complexity in projects as ""the exponential increase in ambiguity surrounding stakeholder expectations, especially regarding the certainty of program outcomes and schedules."" Similarly, scholars of the information technology and communications fields have noted that ""workers in the digital economy should be able to generate and process complex information; think systematically and critically; take decisions weighing different forms of evidence; ask meaningful questions about different subjects; be adaptable and flexible to new information; be creative; and be able to identify and solve real-world problems"".
One leverage point for achieving Sustainable Development Goals through social innovation is to create new depth and breadth of participation by stakeholders. 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.

Service learning has historically been efficient at achieving learning goals but inefficient at achieving impact goals. Scaling service learning in support of social innovation can intervene to change this pattern.

Our increased awareness of the interconnectedness of societal challenges requires that we train professionals to be more than excellent in their particular fields: they need be able to collaborate across disciplinary lines. These collaborations on real-world social innovations shift the perspective of professionals to an empathetic frame of reference vis a vis the stakeholders they aim to serve. Grappling with complexity is not easy, but in order help social innovations reach their impact potential to achieve Sustainable Development Goals and beyond, people are willing to learn more about complex systems and the systems that have implications for a social innovation and the stakeholders it is created to serve.

Skilled volunteering and service learning in support of social innovation is an efficient way for individuals to gain skills that that further their success as project managers, human resources professionals, marketing professionals, and engineers. Service learning focused on social innovation can be efficient simultaneously at achieving impact, and at teaching skills needed in the future.


( http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/)

Abilities that are helpful to this role:
Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Activities relevant to this role:
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Training and Teaching Others - Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Interacting With Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Coaching and Developing Others - Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Developing Objectives and Strategies - Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Developing and Building Teams - Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Scheduling Work and Activities - Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others - Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Performing Administrative Activities - Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates - Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others - Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Assisting and Caring for Others - Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources - Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others - Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.


""To help support you joining the right part of CrowdDoing for you, please use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftd6E0tyV2uq7mMty1rZ80BB2MSGhbnof9gRBvaQXbrttIkg/viewform?usp=sf_link""

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

Junior Instructional Design Volunteer (attention restoration theory) at CrowdDoing.world

You can see an example form nature counter instructional design team here-
The content is available at: https://rise.articulate.com/share/e-r4NQVdVlXQznLcT3Z0UZHWOeBjrF-0"".

We're now working on a moodle version in that team and are planning on an Udemy version as well. Nature Counter Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/74278432/

CrowdDoing LMS- https://learn.crowddoing.world/

More about Nature Counter at a project level is at the bottom of this post.
Role Summary:
We are looking for an aspiring Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences. Are you passionate about learning new skills and teaching others? Then this role is for you.

Essential Tasks:

Designs and develops learning programs in accordance to CrowdDoing's Service Learning model.
The Junior Instructional Designer will work in consultation with the Learning and Development Lead or Senior Instructional Designers to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate CrowdDoing’s learning initiatives.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with volunteers, focus groups, or consultation with Learning and Development lead or Sr. Instructional Designers.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for volunteers.
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Partners and collaborates with other departments to pilot or implement initiatives that require learning professional support.

Skills & Competencies:
Sincere commitment to work collaborating with all constituent groups, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
Receptive to feedback and is able to work upon areas of opportunity for improvement.
Actively looks for ways to learn and improve output.
Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization.
Skills:
Learning Strategies , Instructing, Active Listening,Coordination,Critical Thinking , Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Persuasion Time Management , Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis and Negotiation.


Working knowledge of LMS, e-learning content authoring tools, Microsoft office and google suite.


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.Micro-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.

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

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

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

 

People who live in cities and the communities that connect them can achieve goals through increasing their nature dose. Any country can embrace a national strategy of getting its people and institutions enough time in nature for the community to thrive. This has economic dividends, social capital dividends, mental health health dividends and physical health cost savings.

CrowdDoing has found small groups of trained professionals who know about specific nature benefits. There are people who have been trained in ""Attention Restoration Theory"", ""forest bathing"", ""eco-therapy"", ""nature deficit disorder reduction"", and other related terms. This has not be turned into a universal type of knowledge for any society to adopt in a modern context of majorities of the population living in cities and suburbs. There are examples of elements of biophelia as strategy, Singapore’s Airport, Milan’s Bosco Verticale. But the parks themselves are under-utilized globally by populations compared to their impact potential in cities.

CrowdDoing’s goal with Nature Counter is to create universal usable knowledge about what the benefits of nature dose are, how to access the benefits of nature dose and how to validate nature dose benefits for yourself. A world with more advanced processes to support nature dose could be more convivial, more resilient, have greater neuro-plasticity and would have faster learners and greater upward mobility among a plethora of benefits.

There is a user-centered design gap in nature in culture in that it is not discussed in terms of its benefits. Exercise may have an obvious connection to health but the fact that people sitting on a park bench are experiencing a scientifically established public health benefit is not universally understood. Scientists have been explaining this to other researchers but it hasn’t become universal knowledge any country in the world. No country currently recommends to all people in the country a level of nature dose to achieve basic human health goals the way nutritional recommendations are made by most countries. Nature dose empirically should be at parity with nutrition as an opportunity for established health interventions to achieve public health goals through interdisciplinary cooperation and education.

National nature strategy involves:

Nature dose education for the learner.

Nature dose education for a person in a direct support role (friend, family member, teacher etc.)

Nature dose education for a person designing systems for others that need nature dose alignment- ie employers, administrators, managers, etc.

Nature dose for people who are communicating with people who have all of these roles- educating people who create culture on nature dose, etc.

Nature dose validation (app) features

Nature Flex time for employers features

Nature capacity building for educators about the benefits of nature dose (ie all teachers who could host outside could receive that ) features

Nature capacity building for access gaps in medical knowledge for nature dose for nature prescriptions by doctors, pharmacists and nurses features

Increase the percentage of the country getting nature dose features to increase adoption and habit building

Calculate the benefits to the health care system of their getting nature dose

Nature dose education for storytellers, filmakers, tv show makers, ie how does the local culture establish nature dose benefits and real, empirical, and multi-dimensioal.

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