THELOGICALINDIAN - An NGO advertisement on the United Nations Volunteers UNV siteislooking for two volunteers to advice withresearch and alternation agents associates on how to use bitcoins for fundraising
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Volunteer Programs Interested in Bitcoin
Although the advance bitcoin advocate positions are listed on
the UNV’s site (UNV is a UN alignment that contributes to accord and development through volunteering worldwide) the recruits will not be alive with that alignment directly*.
The positions are with the ‘Twenty-First Century African Adolescence Movement’ (AYM), an NGO in Sierra Leone. This is a growing rural association focused action founded by Abu-Hassan (Askia) Koroma to appoint the adolescence in the renaissance of Sierra Leone.
In an attack to acquisition new acquirement sources as able-bodied as aggrandize their all-around abutment base, the AYM has angry their absorption to Bitcoin. They are “looking for another means of adopting funds by accepting donations in bitcoins,” the advertisement says. It adds:
What Will Be Required of the Volunteers?
No biking is required. The alignment is acquisitive to acquisition volunteers 
to be agents and consultants online and does not charge them to participate in any fundraising. Volunteers charge to be able to accomplish to at atomic 12 weeks or best to this assignment and alpha immediately, alive 1-5 hours a week. “Training and apprenticeship will be online via email, hangout, Skype and Whatsapp,” they explain, adding that they are attractive for “Strong ability of agenda currencies, Research, IT and, aloft all, a cool tech geek.”
AYM appear that they had accustomed an annual at Coinbase to acquire bitcoin donations. However, they accepted that:
Over time, an accretion cardinal of nonprofit organizations acquire started to acquire bitcoin for donations. There are abounding allowances for nonprofits to do so, such as transparency, lower fees, privacy, basal basic assets tax exposure, and tax deductions. Examples of nonprofits that acquire bitcoins accommodate the United Way, Save the Children, Red Cross, Heifer International, and Bitgive.org.
About UNV
Based in Bonn, Germany, UNV is an alignment aural the UN 
that contributes to accord and development through volunteering worldwide. UNV is alive in about 130 countries every year.
According to their website,“The UNV Online Volunteering account connects organizations alive for the Sustainable Development Goals with volunteers acquisitive to accord to all-around advance application their time and abilities online.” The accumulation has recruited about 12,000 online volunteers per year from 187 countries alignment from professionals to students, and from retirees to expatriates.
*Note: An beforehand adaptation of this commodity appropriate the UNV itself was attractive for Bitcoin-skilled volunteers. That is not the case. To clarify, it is the NGO Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement – Sierra Leone.
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