FAQ'S ON HOW TO SUBMIT A PROJECT
What is Green Volunteers?
Green Volunteers has traditionally been a Guide Book (The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation). Active since the first printing of the guide in 1997, Green Volunteers now provides a further service: an Online Database and an e-mail newsletter where projects and organisations can post openings for volunteers or internships. Green Volunteers has an excellent reputation among conservation organisations worldwide as an instrument to find highly motivated volunteers. It is probably now the N°1 information source in the World specialized in Conservation Volunteering.
What shall I do to submit my Conservation Volunteering project (or projects)?
You can submit your project(s) for immediate publication in the Green Volunteers Database and apply for publication in the Green Volunteers Guide (The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation), by filling the fields below. The Guide is published every two years (January of odd years: 2007, 2009, 2011, etc.). Approximately 10,000 copies of The Guide are printed in English. It is sold via the Internet, through this website and major online Bookstores (such as Amazon.com) and distributed in Bookstores throughout the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. It is also translated into Italian and German.
Is it better to be in the Guide Book or in the Online Database?
Our answer is: BOTH. People access the data base for a few minutes, they obviously search by key word, and they may easily find your project if it is the topic of their interest, but then they may click elsewhere and are gone.... They can obviously come back, but who knows? The Guide Book stays in households for years and years, it obviously goes onto bookshelves, but people have a lot of time to read it, study it, plan their travels with it, bring it along during holidays, etc. (with indexes they can also find your project(s) searching by subject, location, price, etc.).
How Much does it cost to be published in the Website Data Base and in the Guide Book?
Data Base: Publication of your organisation and FIVE projects in the Green Volunteers Database is free, as well as publication of one project in the guide!
In exchange for the free publication, however, we do appreciate if you can kindly put a visible link to our website. Please go to Link To Us, to find the proper link address, our banner and a sentence to accompany the link. To be published in the Guide Book a visible Green Volunteers banner in your website is a requirement, because space in the guide is limited and we have many applicants. If you don't want to put our banner in your website, or you want to put more than 5 projects in the database, you can make a nominal contribution to Green Volunteers. For further information please contact us (see contacts).
How many projects can my organisation list in the Data Base or in the Guide?
In general we do not want to have large organisations monopolising our website with too many projects, regardless of their willingness to pay. In general, we think that five projects is a fair maximum number. If your organisation, for particular reasons, wants to list more than five projects in the Database, please contact the moderator (see contacts).
Publication of more than one project in the Guidebook is up to the editor and may be limited owing to space constraints.
Do you have an editorial policy or do you accept ANY project?
Before accepting a project we look at the organisation's website and will approve publication only if the project is really committed to Conservation Volunteering. We will not accept Ecotourism Projects, but only real Conservation Volunteering projects.