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We are collecting insights from small business owners and self-employed professionals from different business sectors and countries to see how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their business, their life and future. We do it by interviewing entrepreneurs remotely, using video-calls technology. Each interview takes 15-20 minutes. It can be recorded by Zoom. Videos are posted on the YouTube channel.

We need Online Volunteers to help us conduct these interviews. The format of the interviews is documented in a step-by-step handbook. Each Online Volunteer works in their own language and their own geography (it can be a neighbourhood, a city, a country). You can conduct from 1 to 5 interviews per week depending on your availabilities.

You can help us to spread the word about the recorded video-stories of entrepreneurs. We want them to reach as many people as possible in order to inspire them and give fresh ideas. The Online Volunteer is responsible for social media posting. We have a simple guide you can follow and all the templates. If you are curious about social media and want to make it a skill, this is a good opportunity to learn and practice.

The content of the interviews will be interesting for Students; Entrepreneurs; Startups; Small business; Expats; Local groups by geography; Interest clubs depending on the type of business. Each interview has a ready-to-share image and description in the text underneath it. So it will be easy to get started.

We have a lot of video materials that can help present the Lockdown Economy and raise awareness about it. We are looking for Online Volunteers to do video-editing and help us share the story of the initiative and participating entrepreneurs and volunteers in the right way. You will be responsible for making promo videos, short documentaries, and so on with the video footage we have.

We are looking for Online Volunteers that can help us identify funds available for the Lockdown Economy initiative. The Online Volunteers research and help identify potential donors, companies and programs to finance activities relating to this initiative. Tasks include funding search in your geography, helping in writing a grant application and identifying other ways of funding such as sponsorship. The workload is divided among the team. Each Online Volunteer is expected to identify 5-10 potential donors and help to prepare 1-2 grant applications.

Help us transcribe the video-interviews we collect. Each Online Volunteer works in their own language and needs to transcribe 1-2 interviews per week. At the moment, we are looking for transcribers in Hungarian, Indonesian, Arabic.