Needs From: United Way of Utah County

Help record audio versions of public domain books. 

VISIT https://forum.librivox.org/ TO GET STARTED

Volunteer Virtually with Library of Congress. Improve access to history by transcribing, reviewing, and tagging Library of Congress documents. 

 VISIT https://crowd.loc.gov/ TO GET STARTED

Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

Contribute your skills and passions to help people with print disabilities read. From scanning and proofreading, to describing images, to providing support for Bookshare® teachers and families.

  VISIT https://www.bookshare.org/cms/get-involved/volunteer/my-volunteer-home TO GET STARTED

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.

 

VISIT https://www.zooniverse.org/ TO GET STARTED

TED Translators are a global community of volunteers who subtitle TED Talks, and enable the inspiring ideas in them to crisscross languages and borders.

VISIT https://www.ted.com/participate/translate TO GET STARTED

Our Mission Improve Understanding

Tarjimly means “translate for me” and was founded in 2017 in response to the Syrian refugee crisis and the US Refugee & Travel Ban. Our mission is to improve the lives of refugees and the efficiency of humanitarian services by eliminating language barriers.

How It Works Technology & The Community

The Tarjimly mobile app allows the world’s 3 billion multilingual speakers to remotely volunteer their language skills as translators and interpreters for the 65 million displaced people. Today, it is the most accessible translator service in the world.

When a refugee, asylum seeker, or humanitarian worker requests a translator for a particular language, Tarjimly’s machine learning matching algorithm selects the best volunteer available in our community of 8,000+ people. This person is then connected in a live chat with the person in need, where they can send text, documents, and start a phone or video call.

VISIT https://www.tarjim.ly/en TO GET STARTED

Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Many of the places where these disasters occur are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organizations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people.

How does it work?

Step 1. Remote volunteers trace satellite imagery into OpenStreetMap

Step 2. Community volunteers add local detail such as neighborhoods, street names, and evacuation centers

Step 3. Humanitarian organizations use mapped information to plan risk education and disaster response activities that save lives.

VISIT https://www.missingmaps.org/ TO GET STARTED

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7 text line for people in crisis in the United States. The service is powered by volunteer Crisis Counselors who work remotely—anywhere with a computer and secure internet connection works.

Crisis Counselors answer texts from people in crisis, bringing them from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning.

 VISIT https://www.crisistextline.org/become-a-volunteer/ TO GET STARTED