It is not clear whether the citizen reporters will be paid or whether the site will rely on volunteers.

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"We don't have salaries and we rely on volunteers, " he said.

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Mike Mullen, has called on them to do, it may become impossible to rely only on volunteers to staff our military.

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There are many compelling reasons for wanting to rely on such volunteers, rather than conscripts.

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They rely increasingly on volunteers: several say that more young people are knocking on their doors these days, with paying jobs scarce.

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Most of the charities - which all receive funding from government sources - said they were having to rely increasingly on volunteers, according to the NPC report.

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Some text providers operate in specific towns, counties or regions and-or rely on trained teen volunteers to handle the load across modes of communication.

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Volunteers rely on reports from the individual communities to determine needs, then send out those requests on Twitter and Facebook - for instance, asking for gluten-free or diabetic food, or requesting volunteer services of mechanics, construction workers, or medical professionals.

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OK, I do understand that most churches run on extremely tight budgets, and many rely on both the hard work and actual hardware of their volunteers.

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