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#ncvs #honcon See Handson Connect today at National Conference on Volunteering & Service, Hilton hotel, NYC
8:30-10 Next generation of volunteer mgt. Panel. Sutton center
10:30-12:30 demos and Q&A affiliate VIP lounge 4th floor
11-12. Pricing and licensing. affiliate VIP lounge 4th floor
1-2. Demo and Q&A. Points of Light booth. 2nd floor
4:30 – 5 demos and Q&A affiliate VIP lounge 4th floor

Larry Deckel – Handson Connect Training and Support Manager
See you there!

HandsOn Connect is the next generation volunteer management solution from Points of Light Institute & HandsOn Network. Built on the SalesForce.com platform, HandsOn Connect is an innovative, web-based system that builds upon the success of HandsOn Technology and 1-800-Volunteer.org providing one integrated system to meet your data management needs

Troutco is proud to be part of the development, training and support team for HandsOn Connect.  This media roll will give you a sneak peek of the HandsOn Connect technology – which will be released in 3rd quarter, 2010.  For more information visit handsonnetwork.org/handsonconnect

An astounding one million people searched, found, and committed to serve their community in response to Disney’s “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.”   Troutco was part of the HandsOn Network technology team working with Disney to provide solutions and support connecting a million volunteers to the community needs met by nonprofits across America, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Troutco applauds Disney, the HandsOn Network, and the million volunteers who served and will now celebrate at DisneyParks.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and hope all my friends and colleagues will continue to volunteer year-round!

Saturday and Sunday, April 24 and 25, 2010

Troutco is pleased to announce that volunteer recruitment and online sign-up are now available for L.A.’s fifteenth annual “Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.”

Larry Deckel, and his consulting firm of Troutco have proudly served as Volunteer Coordinator for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for thirteen consecutive years!  We’re looking forward to having our many loyal volunteers join us once again for the largest and most successful celebration of the written word in the United States, held on the campus of UCLA in Westwood, California.

Last year over 130,000 people attended the Festival, which featured almost one hundred ticketed author events, children’s storytelling, poetry readings, book signings and nearly 500 exhibitor booths.  The Festival’s success has been due in part to the generous assistance of volunteers who welcomed attendees, assisted with registration, staffed author events, supervised book signings and much more.

To sign up as a volunteer for this year’s Festival — please visit the volunteer sign-up page at www.troutco.com/fob/

Looking forward to your joining us this year as a volunteer for this terrific and fun community event.

If you can’t volunteer — mark your calendar!  This event is free and worth attending – no matter how far away you live.

“Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.” launched on January 1.  In the first week over 150,000 volunteers have already signed up.

In the first week over 13,000,000 searches have been performed in the search engine.

Don’t miss your chance to become part of the program.

Volunteers:  Go to www.disneyparks.com and follow the links to “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.”

Organizations: For info on getting TONS of volunteers, visit HandsOn Network at www.handsonnetwork.org/disney.

Troutco is working overtime to help HandsOn Network and its partner organizations all over the U.S., Puerto Rico and canada participate in this record-breaking surge of volunteer  opportunity and participation.  Get involved today before the 1 million tickets are gone!

In a nutshell: DisneyParks.com is giving away 1,000,000 passes to Disneyland and Disneyworld to reward volunteers who register on their site to give a day of volunteer service. HandsOn Network is working with nonprofits, schools, faith-based organizations, Healthcare Organizations, to distribute their volunteer needs through its custom-built search engine of qualified, verifiable volunteer opportunities for the program.  The program will be available in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada!

Here’s how YOU can be a part of it:

Volunteers: Full information on the program can be found on the DisneyParks.com website.  You can pre-register for information, but search and sign-up for qualifying opportunities begins on January 1, 2010.  The first million people who volunteer for an opportunity through the site, earn a Disney Day as a thank you.   Click here for full program information. One ticket per volunteer. A household of up to eight can volunteer together and each earn a pass.

Organizations: What a great opportunity for you to reward your regular volunteers and to recruit tons of new ones.  All you have to do is register your organization for the program at HandOn Network’s Volunteer Opportunity Portal, and post your volunteer opportunities through their easy-to-use technology.  (Users of certain syndicated Volunteer Management Systems automatically have their opportunities appear, once they opt-into the program – couldn’t be easier).   All you have to agree to do beyond that, is to verify the attendance of volunteers within 72 hours of their date of service.  Click here for program details. Or skip the fine print and get registered today.  Click here to register your organization and its volunteer opportunities to qualify for the program. What a great way to reward your volunteers!

Troutco is pleased to be playing an extensive part in working with HandsOn Network and DisneyParks is designing the technology to connect so many volunteers to so many opportunities –  and allowing everyone to celebrate the joy of volunteer service!

Get the word out! Tell your favorite nonprofit organizations to register! We want opportunities to appear from every city and every neighborhood.  And don’t forget to sign-up to volunteer starting January 1st.

Great coverage of Tuesday’s UCLA Volunteer Day on the CBS National News

Troutco is thrilled to announce the full launch of the new UCLA Volunteer Center.

Troutco director Larry Deckel has been working for nearly a year with David Bloome, Campaign Director of the newly launched UCLA Volunteer Center, on his quest to build “a community of heroes” at UCLA.

The result of this campaign includes a state-of-the-art, dynamic website, rich with videos, real-time photo publishing, dynamic content updated on every visit, volunteer journals, feeds, tweets, and all manner of information connecting UCLA students, faculty, alumni, and the community at large to the power of volunteerism.

The campus has been completely energized, manifesting itself today with UCLA’s first Volunteer Day event, where an army of nearly 5,000 students at 26 different project sites are producing amazing impact:  Documented in real-time via photos, videos, and journals from the volunteers themselves, who are discovering what it’s like being a hero in your community. Check out the MapRoom to see the breadth of the work accomplished in this phenomenal day of change!

Kudos and congrats to everyone on the development team, and a tip of the hat to the inspirational David Bloome whose vision underlies everything!  And UCLA students — you rock!!!

Find out the latest stats on Volunteering in America. This terrific site features detailed multi-year information on volunteering trends and demographics in all 50 states, U.S. regions and several cities, and it ranks states and large and mid-size cities on volunteer rates.

The Web site allows users to explore the information in great detail and pull data from specific cities. The report is based on research and thousands of surveys from the U.S. Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was just updated this week with data from 2008 surveys.  See how your city rates! (And don’t forget to volunteer!)