iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringIt was 2.30 in the morning on 13th of June, 2014, when I get started to the airport to leave to Atlanta from Chennai. I was so thrilled to visit the US for the first time and to attend the Points of Light conference. I reached the airport and checked in at the British Airways […]
Volunteers are unpaid temporary/ part time employees of NGOs. It is the passion and zeal to do something good for the social good of the country that individuals come forward to volunteer for a cause that they support. The idea to make even a minor difference through their efforts is what motivates them to take […]
Whiteboard – a great way to make a difference What could the marketing head of a multinational, a chartered account, an IT entrepreneur , a consultant in a global consulting firm possibly be doing on a Saturday morning – well very many different things such as shopping for the weekend at a market, tutoring […]
It is not every day that you get to work for a non profit and travel to Singapore to attend an affiliate meeting by Points of Light to learn more about Skill based volunteering. I happen to have this huge experience along with my other asian counterparts who are as crazily involved with volunteering as […]
It has been more than 10 years now since I was introduced to AID India. It all began at a walk on the shore between Callengute and Baga beach at Goa. I couldn’t believe that the walk would be a life changing one!.It was during 2004 I along with the students of mine from IIT […]
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This is not how I expected my evening will turn out to be. We were doing an event in our office called Seva Sandwich. There were volunteers who came with loaves of bread, butter, jam, tomatoes and cucumber. There were some 10 of us huddled together. We were peeling cucumbers,…
15th February saw an interesting session on “Presenting your Strategy to Corporates”. Through this GYAN training, NGOs were keen to understand the corporate perspective on social responsibility and how they could derive maximum from the business world. Dhruvi Shah (AVP – Sustainable Development, Royal Bank of Scotland) agreed to volunteer for the said session. Dhruvi […]
Please tell us something about yourself: I am Akila, a software engineer by profession. I got introduced to volunteering through my software field. I have been volunteering for almost 4 years now. Can you tell us why you decided to volunteer with Makkala Jagriti? I was earlier visiting the NGO’s directly for my volunteering work. […]
This is Denny John, Dy Director-Implementation Micro Insurance Academy. His Linked In profile gives a preview into his professional achievements, however we are glad introduce him as our Whiteboard and GYAN volunteer. As a resource person for GYAN, a volunteer led initiative of iVolunteer aimed at building capacity of NGO’s, his session on one of […]
I am a software engineer by qualification. After completing my engineering, I realized that working for hours in IT firms would only satisfy the employers and not me even though I have immense love for my subject. As life took its course, I found myself in Delhi preparing for civil services with an aim to […]
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