Giving Compass' Take:

• Volunteer Match offers 10 ways to sign up as an online volunteer or support staff for various causes such as helping the United Nations, becoming part of phone and text crisis services, or becoming a tutor. 

• How is becoming an online volunteer easier and sometimes more accessible for individuals?

• Read about volunteering trends you should know in 2018. 

Looking for ways to support young people that don’t pose transportation or scheduling hassles? We’ve got you covered. Here are 10 ways to volunteer virtually while using your experience and wisdom to help kids thrive.

  1. Help aspiring college students through the entire college admissions and financial aid application process.
  2. Become an online volunteer for the United Nations and use your skills for global good.
  3. Provide support via text to young people in crisis by becoming a volunteer with Crisis Text Line.
  4. E-mentor a high-school student from a low-income community and help close the opportunity gap with iCouldBe.
  5. Volunteer with the American Red Cross remotely in a variety of ways. You can become a digital advocate, following Red Cross on social media, engaging in conversations and helping to spread their messages to your friends, followers and community.
  6. Fight childhood hunger with Feed the Children by becoming a policy advocate, using your voice to ensure policymakers hear what’s needed to defeat hunger.
  7. Ease an international student’s transition to America and help them improve their conversational English through weekly mentoring via video chat with Table Wisdom.
  8. Answer phones for a suicide prevention hotline by contacting your local crisis center (scroll down to search by zip code) or learn more about how you can help someone in your life who might be in crisis by using these #BeThe1To5 action steps.
  9. Generate additional income as an online tutor with Tutor.com.
  10. Provide positive encouragement to children and support their natural curiosity by joining the Granny Cloud, an online learning environment that helps children living below the poverty line in India to learn basic English and make the most of their access to the internet.

Read the full article about volunteering from home by Sarah McKinney at Volunteer Match