Meet Sagnya Das, a young software engineer from Bangalore… Here is her story of virtual volunteering amidst her busy and routine IT lifel! I was a Software Engineer frustrated with my routine life. Sounds like a cliché, Right? Yet it was true. Sitting in a tiny cubicle in this sprawling city of Bangalore made me […]
Category: Corporate Social Responsibility
What happens when one picks up a job which he doesn’t want to but manages to complete it with a victorious grin?? The job becomes the most cherished memory of life for that one. So was the case for a rural volunteering project which was thrown at me in a remote location with limited hands, […]
I have always made small monetary contributions towards good causes. However just donating money did not count as a big deal to me. This talk by Simon Sinek explains why giving away your time and effort is more important than giving away money. Also I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and get an […]
“When everyone else is silent about wrong someone has to raise their voice for the right. We can be that voice”, says Kushal Tanna a Mumbai based graphic designer by profession, an artist at heart and a HERO! Kushal began his volunteering journey developing a website for a Mumbai based Non Profit that rescues victims […]
“I’m an engineering graduate from a middle class family. I studied both at a Government run school in a village and at a high profile school in Chennai. The difference in quality of education between village and city schools impacted me a lot. This influenced me to take up volunteering while I was in still […]
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This November several Non Profits from across India were invited to participate at the eBay Opportunity Hack. Held at their Chennai and Bangalore offices this tech for good event was created by a cross-functional team at eBay with an idea of matching highly-skilled volunteers (i.e. top-notch engineers and other professionals from eBay and other local […]
We are looking for committed professionals between the age group of 27 to 64 with a minimum of four years of work experience and with a penchant to share their skills and learn about new cultures. Most importantly you should be in a position to give a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of […]
“Am sorry, you had informed me on Friday, but I forgot to tell you that we have exams in the morning”. I appreciated the Principal mentioning this to me on Monday morning. Her chance meeting with one of the core organizers from the corporate team on a local train resulted in the postponement of the […]
Design For Change (DFC) is a global movement that inspires children to be ‘changemakers’. We at iVolunteer are inspired by this movement and invite you to pitch in too! Volunteer to shoot and share stories of children overcoming challenges from ‘teaching their parents to read’ and ‘stopping child marriages’ to ‘fixing potholes on the street’. […]
We invite you to join us in celebrating ProbonoWeek with a Tweet Chat on the ‘Potential of Pro Bono in India’ But first… are you wondering ‘Why Pro Bono?’ Professionals and corporate organisations alike, are increasingly looking for ways to give back meaningfully. Non Profits on the other hand are expressing a need for voluntary […]
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