Red Fm Mumbai interviewed us to find out what we will be doing in Uttarakhand Floods and what are the things we need and how you can support us. Just to re-emphasize. We need money. We need things ( utensils, solar lanterns and torches) and volunteers. You can listen to the interview here. Part 1 […]
Author: Rahul Nainwal
Rahul Nainwal, Co founder iVolunteer
Co-Founder India Fellow social leadership program
Co-Founder, UnLtd Delhi
Thanks to more than 150 donors we have raised close to 12 lacs of Rupees for the Uttarakhand relief and reconstruction. We are in regular touch with our volunteers and contacts in the hills. As per discussion with our contact people on the site … army personnel, coordinators of relief material distribution; lot of relief material […]
A lot of us in the NGO sector wish we had access to more talent and skills that would enable us to communicate our work better, have nicer websites, have better knowledge of how to use social media, know what technologies to use…these skills are hard to find and even harder to pay for. We […]
Agriculture has impacted culture (agriculture is CULTURE too with an A before it!) with festivals centered on the monsoon, harvest, and even animals are usually revered or prized as assets conferring a social stature. It has come to be a way of life,especially in rural areas where land based agriculture is practiced to a great […]
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During one of the sessions of our travelling workshop ( a learning expedition in Ladakh led by me with a group of volunteers from a program called ICICI Fellow),Aksansha, a young and cheerful volunteers shared an amazing story. A student (at SECMOL): Didi how many cups of water for making…
As part of our work to reinvent iVolunteer and its offerings we had a small brainstorming session in the iVolunteer ( http://www.ivolunteer.in) Delhi where some of our key people were asked to come out with issues and concerns that NGOs face regarding volunteering. They were asked to spend 10 minutes thinking about it and then […]
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A brainstorming meeting initiated by a female colleague on how to make city safe for women turned out to be really good. Some really nice points came up. Here is a list of some of the points in order of priority. 1 ) How can i fearlessly report a crime and or…
iVolunteer has been working to promote volunteering for the last 8 years or so. One shift that we have seen is that NGOs have now some very specific requirement of volunteers. For us this means a fundamental shift in our work as a volunteering promoting organisation. The kind of volunteers that we have been getting […]
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