Post by Dawn on Sept 4, 2006 14:50:38 GMT -5
I have been a member of the Polly Klass Foundation for about a year now. Today, I became a member of the Rapid Response Team for Missing Kids. I'd highly recommend this to any of you...
It costs no money, just your time.
Please read...
Dawn
A Volunteer does the following in your area...no matter where you are:
Rapid Response Team eVolunteers:
Receive approximately 10 emails/month with a link to a poster of a missing child.
Print the posters they want to distribute.
Distribute the posters throughout their community.
Decide how much time and effort they can donate.
Decide how many posters they will distribute.
Rapid Response Team eVolunteers are fully supported:
eVolunteer Guide.
Members only Listserve/Message Board.
A special email address to directly contact the eVolunteer Manager.
Special web pages dedicated to the work of Rapid Response Team.
Here's a link to Frequently Asked Questions:
www.pollyklaas.org/evolunteer/rapid-response-team-faqs.html
Few facts:
Polly Hannah Klaas was a vibrant, talented 12-year-old, with the promise of a bright future. When she was kidnapped at knifepoint by a stranger from her bedroom slumber party on October 1, 1993, the community of Petaluma, California responded with a spontaneous and unprecedented effort to find her.
As the efforts expanded from the San Francisco Bay Area into a nationwide search, the Polly Klaas Foundation became a nonprofit agency on October 23, 1993.
The discovery of Polly's body on December 4 of that year was heartbreaking. Out of that heartbreak, hundreds of people from across the nation called the Polly Klaas Foundation and implored them to keep doing for other children what was done for Polly. An inspirational decision was made by the volunteers to keep up their efforts in Polly's name.
Using our compassion, experience, and professionalism, we have helped more than 6,500 families find missing children. The expertise we've gained working in all types of missing child cases over the years, along with help from other agencies, has helped us maintain a yearly recovery rate of approximately 85 percent.
The Polly Klaas® Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps find missing children, prevents children from going missing in the first place, and works with policymakers to pass laws like Amber Alert that help protect kids.
We provide around the clock assistance to families with missing children, counseling them on ways to find their children and work with law enforcement. We make and distribute posters of missing children for these families, and have a national eVolunteer force that distributes posters of missing children in their communities.
We publish and distribute child safety information to people around the world, our free Child Safety Kit and our free Internet Safety Kit can be ordered or downloaded online.
The Polly Klaas® Foundation is a member of the Association of Missing and Exploited Children's Organizations (AMECO). Marc Klaas is not associated with the Polly Klaas Foundation. His foundation can be reached at 415-331-6867.
It costs no money, just your time.
Please read...
Dawn
A Volunteer does the following in your area...no matter where you are:
Rapid Response Team eVolunteers:
Receive approximately 10 emails/month with a link to a poster of a missing child.
Print the posters they want to distribute.
Distribute the posters throughout their community.
Decide how much time and effort they can donate.
Decide how many posters they will distribute.
Rapid Response Team eVolunteers are fully supported:
eVolunteer Guide.
Members only Listserve/Message Board.
A special email address to directly contact the eVolunteer Manager.
Special web pages dedicated to the work of Rapid Response Team.
Here's a link to Frequently Asked Questions:
www.pollyklaas.org/evolunteer/rapid-response-team-faqs.html
Few facts:
Polly Hannah Klaas was a vibrant, talented 12-year-old, with the promise of a bright future. When she was kidnapped at knifepoint by a stranger from her bedroom slumber party on October 1, 1993, the community of Petaluma, California responded with a spontaneous and unprecedented effort to find her.
As the efforts expanded from the San Francisco Bay Area into a nationwide search, the Polly Klaas Foundation became a nonprofit agency on October 23, 1993.
The discovery of Polly's body on December 4 of that year was heartbreaking. Out of that heartbreak, hundreds of people from across the nation called the Polly Klaas Foundation and implored them to keep doing for other children what was done for Polly. An inspirational decision was made by the volunteers to keep up their efforts in Polly's name.
Using our compassion, experience, and professionalism, we have helped more than 6,500 families find missing children. The expertise we've gained working in all types of missing child cases over the years, along with help from other agencies, has helped us maintain a yearly recovery rate of approximately 85 percent.
The Polly Klaas® Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps find missing children, prevents children from going missing in the first place, and works with policymakers to pass laws like Amber Alert that help protect kids.
We provide around the clock assistance to families with missing children, counseling them on ways to find their children and work with law enforcement. We make and distribute posters of missing children for these families, and have a national eVolunteer force that distributes posters of missing children in their communities.
We publish and distribute child safety information to people around the world, our free Child Safety Kit and our free Internet Safety Kit can be ordered or downloaded online.
The Polly Klaas® Foundation is a member of the Association of Missing and Exploited Children's Organizations (AMECO). Marc Klaas is not associated with the Polly Klaas Foundation. His foundation can be reached at 415-331-6867.