1.   As president of the Staten Island Athletic Club, he originally helped organize volunteers.

2.   PBI organizes volunteers from around the world to serve as unarmed political observers.

3.   Such an effort would allow the Fire Department to organize the volunteers.

4.   The key, he said, is to organize volunteers and run candidates.

5.   The nonprofit organization buys wood, bricks and other supplies, then organizes volunteers who join a family in constructing a modest house.

6.   The sheriff of Clatsop County in rural Oregon has proposed organizing armed volunteers to help deal with the threat of terrorism.

7.   Two staffers were dispatched last week to the Corporation for National Service, an agency charged with organizing volunteers and helping groups with technical assistance.

8.   Volunteers are being organized by e-mail.

9.   A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was organizing local volunteers to provide first aid and transport the wounded to hospitals.