* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

He has also been an IETF security area director, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, chair of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a board member of the Internet Society and numerous other Internet-related volunteer positions.

Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.

which is governed by a nine-member volunteer board of directors and a group of documents: the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions ( CC & R's ), bylaws, the association rules, and an Environmental Control ( EC ) code.

The government includes a five member town council, a clerk treasurer, a police department, a volunteer fire department, a park department, and a water board.

In 1977 he talked his way onto the board of directors of a local charitable organization and forged a series of letters from its executive director to the mayor of Kansas City, and from the mayor to other civic leaders, commending his generous volunteer efforts and generally singing his praises.

The Town of Sheridan is served by an independent volunteer fire department run by a board of fire

MGCCA is governed by a volunteer board of directors and supported through the contributions of local individuals and companies.

Along with the mayor, there are several town commissoners, a planning board, and a volunteer fire department.

The golf course, swimming pool, and common areas within Stansbury Park were originally administered by two separate service districts ( Stansbury Greenbelt Service Area # 1 and SGSA # 2 ), but since August 1992 have been administered by a combined district, the Stansbury Service Agency, whose volunteer, unpaid board members are elected by the population.

She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s.

His involvement with community organizations included founding the Farm Workers ’ Legal Information Service ( later Canadian Farm Workers ' Union ), serving on the board of directors for BC Civil Liberties Association and the Vancouver Multicultural Society, and the Labour Advocacy Research Association, as well as volunteer work with MOSAIC Immigrant Services Centre, and the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House.

The organization is governed by a volunteer unpaid board of directors.

By the time the plane reached Germany with Jemison and the volunteer on board, she had been up with the patient for 56 hours.

The Institute is governed by its Council, a volunteer board of directors that oversees the management of ALI ’ s business and projects.

An active volunteer board of directors ran the organization, assisted by a small clerical staff.

George was sent to Harrow School, being appointed, on leaving, by warrant dated 21 June 1732, a volunteer on board Sunderland.

A couple of serious financial crises hit the company along with major disputes between the volunteer cohort and their elected board of directors / trustees.

His first assignment was with a board that examined the qualifications of volunteer officers, but he soon was given command of a brigade of Pennsylvania Reserves.

Such authoritarian rule, once expected and even thought necessary for a symphonic ensemble to function properly, has loosened somewhat in the closing decades of the 20th century with the advent and encouragement of more power sharing and cooperative management styles ( with the orchestra musicians themselves, the administrative staff, and volunteer board of directors ).

Walker has served as the volunteer chairman of the board of directors of Spacecause, and is past president and a current board director of the National Space Society.

Duberstein is a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College and Johns Hopkins University and serves as well on a wide range of commissions, task forces, and cultural, educational and volunteer boards: Vice Chairman of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Harvard University's Kennedy School Harvard's Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee, the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency medicine, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Ford's Theater and The American Council on Capital Formation.

He has served as a volunteer fireman and is now a board member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The entire complex has been designed to be functional as well as aesthetically engaging and will include a large auditorium that can be used for art shows, lectures and seasonal displays ; a gourmet café with delicious, healthy food featuring local produce and seafood ; a volunteer services area ; and an enhanced ticketing and retail center.

The DZS manages all fundraising, membership, special events, food services, retail operation, volunteer programs, marketing, and public relations for the zoo under management contract with the City of Dallas.

A volunteer cooperative is a cooperative that is run by and for a network of volunteers, for the benefit of a defined membership or the general public, to achieve some goal.

A volunteer-run co-op is distinguished from a worker cooperative in that the latter is by definition employee-owned, whereas the volunteer cooperative is typically a non-stock corporation, volunteer-run consumer co-op or service organization, in which workers and beneficiaries jointly participate in management decisions and receive discounts on the basis of sweat equity.

In its heyday, Stotts City was home to several banks, a large hardware store, The Farmers Exchange Co-op, a cooperative enterprise of the local grain and dairy farmers, a school and numerous churches, and even had a volunteer brass band and a newspaper, The Stotts City Sunbeam, published from 1901 until the end of 1907.

The village included a tavern, movie theater, volunteer fire station, newspaper office ( The Greendale Review ), schools, cooperative market and beautiful stone carvings by Alonzo Hauser.

In addition to being committed to academics, they are encouraged and many participate in volunteer work, organizations & clubs, cooperative education, research, study abroad and cultural activities.

" Active citizenship " is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Furthermore, the CIA instructed the contras to destroy and sabotage economic and social targets such as lumber yards, coffee processing plants, electrical generating stations, farms, cooperatives, food storage facilities, health centers, including a particular effort to dusrupt the coffee harvests through attacks on coffee cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters.

A gamemaster in such a game is either an experienced volunteer player or an employee of the game's publisher.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

When free and open source Unix-like operating systems such as GNU / Linux and 386BSD became available in the early 1990s many volunteer software developers abandoned MINIX in favor of these.

In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and education vouchers.

* " Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces "

This technology has been applied to computationally intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and it is used in commercial enterprises for such diverse applications as drug discovery, economic forecasting, seismic analysis, and back office data processing in support for e-commerce and Web services.

These sirens can also be tied into other networks such as a fire departments volunteer notification / paging system.

The Red Cross provides this service in some parts of the world on a volunteer basis ( and in others as a Private Ambulance Service ), as do other smaller organisations such as St John Ambulance and the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps.

In some cases the volunteer charity may employ paid members of staff alongside volunteers to operate a full time ambulance service, such in some parts of Australia, Ireland and most importantly Germany and Austria.

The Red Cross provides this service in many countries across the world on a volunteer basis ( and in others as a Private Ambulance Service ), as do some other smaller organizations such as St John Ambulance.

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

This era also saw a more widespread targeting on the UVF's part of IRA and Sinn Féin members, such as the killing of civilian Michael Fay by UVF volunteer Billy Giles in 1982.

The volunteer also criticized The Salvation Army for accepting violence-themed toys such as plastic rifles while not accepting Harry Potter or Twilight toys.

Both full time and some-time residents come together for community activities such as ice skating on the frozen pond during Winterfest, the 5k Necktie Race held on Father's Day, and the annual summertime event the Fireman's Ball which raises money for the volunteer fire department.

Arc also provides support and funding to university clubs and societies and runs student volunteer programs such as Orientation Week.

Most such laws do not apply to medical professionals ' or career emergency responders ' on-the-job conduct, but some extend protection to professional rescuers when they are acting in a volunteer capacity.

* 1862: Following the resolution for the Navy Medal of Honor, a resolution for an Army Medal of Honor was approved by Congress and signed into law on July 12, 1862: " To provide for the presentation of medals of honor to the enlisted men of the army and volunteer forces who have distinguished or may distinguish themselves in battle during the present rebellion ". This measure provided for awarding a medal of honor " to such non-commissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldier-like qualities during the present insurrection ".

The military term was subsequently adopted for public service organizations with a paramilitary command structure, volunteer public service organizations, such as the Peace Corps, various ambulance corps, some NGOs ( non-government organizations ), and other civic volunteer organizations.