Be a Virtual Volunteer


Virtual Volunteer Toolkit

It’s volunteers like you helping to spread the word about ReachOut.com to your social networks that will help us help young people make through tough times. Here are some options for how you can get involved:

Spread the word with ReachOut.com stickers

Let people know about ReachOut.com with stickers – put one on your car, your notebook or laptop. Be creative! Just email us your name and snail mail address and let us know how many stickers you would like (up to 100). Post a photo of where you place your sticker on our Facebook Wall.

Spread the word to your virtual friends on social networking sites

Share a ReachOut.com factsheet, story or video link as a status update on Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn. On most social networks, adding the link will generate the ReachOut.com logo in your post and in your Facebook Newsfeed, MySpace Stream or LinkedIn Network Activity. Here’s how:

  • Make sure you have already completed the log-in for the social network of your choice (e.g. if you are using Facebook, that you have put in your email address and password).
  • Go back to the fact sheet or story on ReachOut.com you would like to share.
  • Click on the “Share” link just above the fact sheet, on the right side of the page.
  • Select your network from the list. Scroll down if you do not see the one you want to add to.
  • Click the send or share button on your post and you’re done!

Once the link is added, you can “Like” it as well on Facebook. Don’t forget to become a fan of our Facebook page (ReachOut USA) friend us on MySpace (ReachOutinUSA) and encourage your friends to do the same!

You can also follow us on Twitter @ReachOutinUSA and encourage your followers to follow us, too, especially on #FollowFridays. Tweet one of our fact sheets, stories, video links or even just the homepage URL along with why people should check us out (in under 140 characters, of course!). You can take your ReachOut.com link to a URL shortening site such as bit.ly to give yourself more posting room. If you curate your own Twitter lists, create one with organizations you love and add us!

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel, ‘Favorite’ and embed our videos

Become a subscriber to ReachOut.com’s YouTube Channel and ask your friends or followers on YouTube to do the same. Don’t forget to favorite our videos as well. And of course, you can link to them from your social network or embed them on your blog.

Blog about us

Promote ReachOut.com to your readers! You can post your own commentary on one of our Fact Sheet topics or stories (with a link back!). You are also welcome to repost a ReachOut.com Fact Sheet or story (with attribution) and a link back to our site.

Share ReachOut.com content with contacts or colleagues on Listservs

Check out http://us.reachout.com and identify articles or stories that resonate with you or issues that you are involved in. Once you find a Fact Sheet or story you want to share, send a short note out along with the link to ReachOut.com to appropriate list-serves as well as to friends and coworkers who may be interested.