"Must-Have" Links for VPMs

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Information must be at your fingertips when you are a Volunteer Programme Manager and with that in mind, I just would like to share some "must-have" web links for VPMs to make their lives easier:

• SBS Transit & SMRT Buses- When you need to travel to places (e.g. project sites where volunteers are helping out) and you wonder how you could get there.
• StreetDirectory.Com - You will sometimes come across weird unheard of addresses and this makes you really where your volunteers really stay or where your prospective corporate volunteers' office is. Use streetdirectory.com to help you find where they stay so you can place them appropriately as well.
• Family Service Centres - Sometimes people might approach the VPM not so much to sign up as a volunteer but to seek help. If it is within the scope of service provided by the VPM's organization then it would be most straughtforward. Else, they can be referred to the nearest Family Service Centre(s) for help
• SingPost - For those times when you need to find the postal code for an address
• SingTel & Starhub - When you really really need to SMS a volunteer (considering it is costly to SMS all your volunteers using your own handphone)
• MOE School Information Service - Especially useful when you are working with schools and need to find out specific information about the school e.g. who the Principal and Vice Principal are etc.

OK, shall add on to the list when I have any more recommendations...