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Volunteers are needed to support our annual Diversity Stride walk-a-thon that promotes community unity and helps to ensure our neighbors of all races, faiths, ethnicities, identities and ages know that they are valued and respected.
We need volunteers to register walkers, provide entertainment, lead games with children, set-up and clean-up, general event logistics.
Walkers will enjoy cultural entertainment as well as DJ and refreshments and the sense of fulfillment that comes along with valuing diversity and promoting respect. Community organizations and corporations show their support and set up exhibitor tables to share with the community how they are champions for diversity and inclusion.

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Los Altos Hacks is the first hackathon run by students from Los Altos High School in Mountain View, California. A hackathon is an 24 hour learning/building marathon where students get access to API's, hardware and mentorship from industry professionals like yourself in order to create their "hack" and have a life changing experience.

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We are looking for a Communications and Marketing Volunteer for our international nonprofit. Volunteer must be an efficient and high energy individual who is well versed in the needs of a nonprofit and can get across the message of our noble cause.

You will be responsible for assisting us in the development and implementation of our social media messaging, newsletters, engaging with the public and soliciting new volunteers, sponsors, and members.

You are going to be an extension of our cause, so we encourage you to visit our website and learn about the organization's mission and projects.

As a communication and marhething volunteer, you are joining our young team of professionals and college students communicators, expanding your portfolio as a communication expert by applying today, and also gaining a great opportunity to earn additional volunteer hours.

Cercle Social is an approved 501c3 non-profit organization.

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Cercle Social is featuring the Raspberry Pi and encouraging secondary school students to learn to code.

We are looking for a technical blogger to write blogs about topics such as coding in school, computer programming, the Raspberry Pi, etc.

We are looking for a tech-savvy blogger who loves any of the following topics:
- computers
- apps
- hardware,
- software,
- gadgets,
- programming,
- mobile, or anything related to computing and technology.

As a technical blogger, you are joining our young team of professionals and college students bloggers, expanding your portfolio as a professional blogger by applying today, and also gaining a great opportunity to earn additional volunteer hours.

Cercle Social is an approved 501c3 non-profit organization.

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Do you love to write? — Would you like to improve your writing skill? — Are you seeking professional experience as a grant writer? — Are you able to work multiple projects at once to meet specific deadlines?

We experience a high demand of grant writers for our International nonprofit. We are looking for individuals capable of writing grant proposals individually or as part of a team.

You will be an extension of our cause, so we encourage you to visit our website and learn about the organization's mission and projects.

As a grant writer, you are joining our young team of professionals and college students writers, expanding your portfolio as a grant writer by applying today, and also gaining a great opportunity to earn additional volunteer hours.

Cercle Social is an approved 501c3 non-profit organization.

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All of our program tracking is done through our FileMaker Database system.
We need someone to help us improve our tracking capabilities, automate our online application process, and provide general support with some of the issues.

We're also looking for creative technical support in tracking the progress on a seed by seed basis with some of our younger gardeners.

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We compete in the Northern California First Lego League held annually for 9-16 year old students. Our team rely on volunteer parents, teachers, technical professionals and community businesses for support and coaching after school and on Saturdays at Pittsburg Schools. We currently have two teams of 10 members each.

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Blastbeat in a Box - outline document.

Introduction/ Background

BlastBeat is an award-winning, fun and exciting, music and multimedia business programme offered to young people that inspires young people to engage with their communities as young social entrepreneurs, to promote young musicians and their own event social enterprises on a local and national leve

“Blastbeat in a Box” (BAB) can be a real game changer for the Blastbeat charity and allow us to help a lot more young at-risk people.
The need is for volunteer programmers to help the Blastbeat Education UK charity develop an App “Blastbeat In A Box” (BAB), This is to convert the entire proven Blastbeat live music event programme www.blastbeat.org into an innovative online live music and social enterprise platform, harnessing gamification that is also a rewards-based programme that can show measurable outcomes creating deep digital community engagement and interactive videos and teaching tool kits etc.

This will deliver great learning by doing programmes aimed towards delivering transferable youth skills virtually and via the medium of Music and Social Media and tool kits, Aps and local youth leaders and organisations internationally.

This App will link to a platform with a series of online tool kits, and video overlays with a comprehensive “how to do” video tutorial online, in the cloud and or on You Tube, phones or any screen anywhere, to originate community created content and Blastbeat created content.
This BAB platform can deliver the Virtual Blastbeat programme and experience wherever to mobile phones, tablets, computers ‘gamifying’ existing proven Blastbeat social enterprise education programme.
The Blastbeat social enterprise programme has been developed and refined over a decade by and for young people, especially those from underserved or at risk groups / communities.

Blastbeat is a great catalyst for building bridges between the worlds of education and work; giving teenagers a positive learning by doing experience, a great can-do attitude and the realisation that positive personal development demands dedication drive and lots of determination to succeed.

Blastbeat also increases tolerance and understanding in local communities through stronger communication and perceptions.
The Blastbeat programme aids NEET prevention and real cross-generational community building.

Our parent 'social enterprise through music' programme has proven itself over the last ten years in pilots we have run in 6 cities in the USA, and in SA, Ireland, Belgium, South Korea and Japan and for over 5 years in the UK www.blastbeat.org Ireland and Japan (see www.blastbeat.jp).
“Blastbeat in a Box” - summary

The Blastbeat programme combines music with social enterprise, challenging / rewarding participants who plan, promote and stage their own live music event. It is also two competitions in one- Music and Social Enterprise.
Historically Blastbeat has run its programme through schools and youth groups, with a team of mentors visiting and delivering the programme in person.
Whilst this method is successfully proven, there is a limit to the amount of beneficiaries we can economically support, as the traditional way of delivering the programme is quite people intensive.
Blastbeat wishes to develop and launch a new innovative platform with tools kits and apps to help these young people complete their tasks and create a really rich online learning/ mentoring experience throughout the UK then worldwide.
This can be delivered to the youth organisations for one tenth to one twentieth of the cost of our current offering.

“Blastbeat In A Box” will feature all tasks involved with staging a live music event, through a series of online gameified challenges. This makes the programme accessible anywhere, with personalised ‘logins’ made available through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

To incentivise participation, “Blastbeat In A Box” will offer tangible rewards and incentives to users. Our BlastPoints scoring system is awarded for completing any tasks we set, starting with signing up to the programme, and all further tasks completed. BlastPoints will translate into real-world rewards such as to music events, vouchers, goods etc.

An online toolkit will include a series of educational resources such as templates for Business Plans, Event Plans, Press Releases, and other video content featuring advice from other users or well-known figures plus will have impact assessment built in.

The platform will also feature a Google Maps interface; showing recognised and accredited local providers of equipment hire and services, etc. Users will promote their gigs in Augmented Reality (i.e. the virtual world within the physical world), encourage GPS positioned Airtag reviews in cyberspace, which can be shared with millions through, Google+ Facebook, Twitter etc

“Blastbeat In A Box” will lead to the creation of top quality user and community-generated content, including music videos, live recordings and artwork. This content will be uploaded to the YouTube Blastbeat TV channel, becoming an additional resource for participants, whilst also attracting new users.

Combining Enterprise with Music, Connecting Performers with Audiences and Taking Local to Global – Blastbeat In A Box will be the App that is run by young people, FOR young people.

The proposed project could be developed in stages: e.g.

Stage 1 – Build app with login through existing social media platforms, soft launch alongside Blastbeat programme in 30 schools in London and Birmingham in 2016

Stage 2 - Following the successful testing in stage 1, stage 2 will extend features and functionality and expand further with the development of applications for Android and iPhone.

Stage 3 - Make fully developed platform available on a screen anywhere internationally.
“Blast Beat in a Box”
Open sourrce development request for help

Project: Mobile App and website

Scope of Project – to develop a user friendly, How To create and manage a live music event Guide” based around the Blast Beat project.
The app will include all manuals and user guidelines as laid out in the current digital pack. In addition to the Blast Beat project the App will allow individual entrepreneurs, social and community groups the ability to apply the format across all areas of event organization.
The complete supply chain for event management can also be made accessible via the app to include local venues, PA suppliers, Caterers, printers etc.

The business model for “Blast Beat in a Box” would be based on a license per ESE Unti download or organization (white label solution) priced on a sliding scale according to the number of users or Units licenced.
(In addition multiple sponsor and advertising opportunities potentially exist)

The App will be utilized by 3 types of users:

1) Artists in competition (from schools and youth groups)
2) Social entrepreneurs (event social enterprise)
3) Fans of each artist or event (Phase 2)

We will create a game style interface to make the process of achieving points through completing tasks and goals fun and interactive (including push notifications for reminders or hints). The app can send personalized voice notes, video or animations as reminders and rewards.

The gamification should include these categories (following the current How To Guide):

- writing a business plan - showing progress in the app - points (points on all tasks)
- find a venue
- book a venue
- create fan base
- market to fan base
- develop logo, flyer, poster, videos
- training videos
- artist pages with "how I do this"
- social network with user comments about "how I do this"
- different job titles who have different

Timeline: app development starts in Q1 2016
New features can be developed once requirement are clearly understood. Maintenance fees (to be determined) will include updates for new operating systems during the term of the contract.

Why does the development of BAB matter?

“Blastbeat In A Box” can really help provide teenagers with the skill set and the tool kit they need to negotiate the transition between education and work in a very cost effective fun way.

In the current economic climate, school leavers face an ever-increasing struggle to secure meaningful employment of any kind.

With jobs at such a premium, young people find themselves disenchanted with their future prospects, leading to increases in anti-social behaviour, and the prospect of young people ‘dropping out’ of society altogether.

Blastbeat encourages entrepreneurial principles, teaching teenagers how to create their own income streams in a sustainable way, whilst also promoting social awareness – all participants are required to support their local community.

How big is the problem we are trying to find a solution to?
Government Figures show youth unemployment hitting record levels. Those seeking work between the ages of 16-24 is at some of the highest since records began in 1992

MILESTONES

Stage 1
BlastBeat have several important, and yet quite diverse, needs, including to:
● Create a simple yet powerful digital virtual interactive Blastbeat programme delivery solution / platform to engage, educate and support the BlastBeat participants.
These tools will enable Blastbeat to scale its programme and offering, reaching much greater numbers in a very cost effective manner. The costs of delivering the programme to a youth group, club or school could reduce by a factor of between 10 and 20 times for the basic programme.
● Improve and measure participant outcomes by making the programme more rewarding through gamification and also to get instant impact assessment data.
● Spread the message about BlastBeat to a wider audience; Engage friends and families of participants.
● Deliver a platform that would enable BlastBeat to further increase sponsorship/advertising revenue.
- Create a network of financial supporters, including community funding, corporates and brands.
- Develop a cross-platform framework and sign up process for Blastbeat In A Box, including tasks and toolkit
- Create levels of achievement within the app for participants based on BlastPoints* (*reward points).
- Train and appoint moderators to analyse and review uploaded content and work submissions
- Soft launch into selected schools and youth groups.
- Incorporate impact assessment questionnaires and an automatic evaluation report system.

Stage 2 –this is yet to be fully scoped and is subject to some degree what we do in Stage1, what learn by that, but it will aim to..
- Develop a native application specific to each platform (such as iPhone, Android, iPad, etc)
- Integrate more dynamic features (such as Google Mapping/GPS for gigs and suppliers, Google Wallet, etc)
- Expanded roll-out into the 20 highest populated cities in the UK, with an average of 10 schools/youth groups per city as well as 20 rural communities in towns and villages plus virtual teams of home schooled young people- upto 500 groups or ESE made up of young people using the BAB app
- Year 2 evaluation report

Stage 3 –It is too early to detail this here, but we would envisage building on our success of stages 1 & 2, to make the Blastbeat programme available internationally, expanding our users to far higher levels.

Technical work needed and initial outline for Stage 1

- Establish Blastbeat in a Box Branding
- Build and integrate cross platform mobile framework and basic functionality
- Develop and Integrate Sign up process
- Develop sharing feature (encouraging multiple sign ups)
- Develop Stage 1 proof of concept with completion of Blastbeat programme tasks – e.g. 1) mission statement, 2) setting company goals…
- Develop online polling for pre and post survey – (impact assessment)
Create badge/points system for completion of tasks
- Create various levels of achievement, with prizes/competitions/discounts proportioned according to categories reached (points achieved)
- First discounts/rewards added and redeemable through our SIVs (Smartphone Incentives platform
- Develop rewards platform for better prizes through competitions etc
- Reports for Surveys including analysis
- Support with Market research / evaluation / soft launch
- Management/creative support with Blastbeat, Young People and developers -
- 1st stage evaluation report.

Blastbeat will
- Soft Launch in schools / youth clubs in 2014
- Appoint Moderators and content providers
- Manage issuing of voucher codes/points issued for tasks completed

Stage 2

Following a successful test marketing exercise, stage 2 will extend features and functionality and expand further into mobile with the development of native applications for Android, Blackberry and iPhone.

- Creating a native application specific to each platform – e.g. Android, iPhone including product testing for each
- Integration with Google mapping/GPS to promote events
- YouTube & Blastbeat TV video integration
- GEO location integration with Google
- Expansion into cities across UK – including delivery support/testing wit selected partners e.g. The Princes Trust,
- Additional rewards/prizes/competitions
- Integrate with Google Wallet to build an online shop for merchandise, selling tickets and advertisers http://www.google.co.uk/wallet/ (e.g. music equipment and sound equipment providers).

How does BAB use technology?

The platform harnesses the best of social media, mobile engagement and enterprise in one place, proving a central and competitive channel for Young People to advance through a proven and very successful life programme.

The platform is essentially an integrated blend of proven features that already make day to day life easier – e.g. Google Maps / Geo Location and Youtube, combined with innovative systems, already developed and tested by our project partners, for clients.

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CodeDay targets students with no prior coding experience, and offers them an opportunity to code something which interests them individually, rather than a standard assignment.

At CodeDay, students pitch ideas for apps or games they want to see exist, then spend the next 24 hours creating them while learning more about code, with the help our of staff and mentors.

Showing students the creative side of code convinces most to pursue coding further.

Students regularly tell us CodeDay is one of the most meaningful things they've done. Over 80% of our attendees continue to code after attending; strengthening the local tech community and empowering low-income students and minority groups.

For more information, visit CodeDay.org.

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The International Child/Parent Development Program (ICDP) is a program for all child caregivers: such as social workers, teachers, home visitors, child care providers, school support service staff, psychologists, nurses, community/faith leaders and parents. The program aims to strengthen the empathy-based relationship these individuals have with the children they care for so that they may promote positive development and well-being. ICDP is adapted and integrated within communities through the training of each community’s professionals and parents. Changing Children’s Worlds Foundation (CCWF) implements ICDP throughout the Chicagoland area.

Responsibilities will include:
- Receiving training as an ICDP Facilitator to support work related with ICDP Caregiver Learning Groups
- Support the coordination of ICDP Caregiver Groups & Children’s Programs (Elgin, Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, Chicago)
- Assist with Facilitator & Trainer Workshop Organization / Training Materials
- Support Educational Resource Books & Tool Kit Improvement
- Support CCWF Education/ICDP Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting (including ICDP Databases entry, possible article writing and web reports)
- Assist in coordinating the ICDP NASW - Continuing Education Administration
- Participate in ICDP Education Community Outreach
- Assist in keeping the ICDP Directory updated
- Assist with Caregiver/Facilitator/Trainee Info and Communications
- Support ICDP related Grant Writing & Reporting, Fundraising, Social Media

Minimum Requirements:
- Some college or 1+ year experience in the field.
- Good writing skills.
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Organized.
- Moderate computer skills (Excel/Numbers, Word/Pages and PowerPoint/Keynote)

Spanish language is not required, but would be an asset.

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