First year accomplishments (October 2005 - September 2006)
AIA-HI acted as a conduit for volunteers with disabilities to engage in short-term (as brief as a few hours) and ongoing (from day a week to full-time) volunteer opportunities. Below is a list of AIA-HI achievements thus far:
- Established 2 LINCs (Local Inclusion Network Collaboratives), to network with community volunteer and disability organizations;
- Held three LINC meetings; 2 on O‘ahu and 1 in Hilo;
- Developed a survey to determine the needs of O‘ahu LINC members;
- Facilitated a Match Making meeting between Office of Elections, Veterans Affairs and VA Council;
- An informal Match Making meeting was made for the Institute for Human Services and Hawaii Services on Deafness with Aloha United Way, Volunteer Hawaii and other volunteer organizations;
- Served as a conduit between community organizations leading to more than 110 volunteers with disabilities participating in all kinds of volunteer service opportunities;
- Launched and maintained AIA-HI Web site;
- Developed a list of 65 O‘ahu organizations and 40 Hilo organizations to join each LINC;
- Initiated a listserv for O‘ahu LINC members to use as a communication tool;
- Participated in outreach activities including the SPIN conference, Ability House/Habitat for Humanity build, Tools for Life and Art Enabled to promote AIA-HI project;
- Developed and distributed flyers for organizations to recruit volunteers with disabilities;
- Developed Climate Assessment evaluation instrument for all AIA collaborators.
