About

John Carroll
Volunteer.legal is one of John's volunteer projects. It was born from John's personal frustrations with the volunteer experience provided by immigration legal service providers. Volunteer.legal is currently in a closed beta stage. It is John's intention that the finished application be open sourced and made freely available to any nonprofit immigration legal service provider wishing to use it.

Contact Info:
If you've already been in contact with me, use the contact information you have to reach me. Otherwise, general inquiries can be made on www.volunteer.legal. If that doesn't seem to be working, Twitter may be a better way to reach me. I can be found there @johncarroll.

Amy Wang
Amy Wang is the primary volunteer coordinator for events organized by the San Francisco Pathways to Citizenship Initiative. She was also the first staff user of volunteer.legal, and has provided invaluable time and feedback during the, oftentimes rocky, beta process. If volunteer.legal is successful, it is in large part because of Amy's voluntary contributions."'At this point in my career, I've worked with a fair number of people on nonprofit related projects. I believe the reason why this project is successful when others I've participated in weren't, isn't because I knew something that others didn't, it's because the people working on this project took responsibility for its success and haven't stopped working to improve it. All too often, this doesn't happen and the results are mediocre at best. Amy Wang voluntarily took it upon herself to see that this project was successful and that decision has benefitted everyone using it. And I am incredibly grateful for all of her help.' -- John Carroll"

Creation Process
coming....at some point....

Project disclaimer:
This is the first application that I've ever made. I learned how to program specifically so that I could realize this project, and even reduced my job hours to work on it. The costs are minimal (excluding the opportunity cost), but they are absorbed by me. There is no formal, outside support or funding for this project. Everything is moving forward with the best of intentions, and there have been no problems so far, but you use the site at your own risk. It is always possible that something goes horribly wrong and all volunteer information on the site is permanently lost and destroyed...Cheers!