iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringGYAN (Get Your Answers Now), iVolunteer’s, initiative where we have high caliber professionals volunteering to train staff of NGOs on various skills to help increase their efficiency. Each session focuses on very specific topics e.g. training on proposal preparation for corporate, Use of Excel, project management tools, basics of financial management, accounting, fundraising tips etc.. […]
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 […]
I write this not so much to brag (although that too a little bit), but for future volunteers who will wonder, as I did, what life will be like working for an organization in India. My place, at a grassroots non-profit called Aarohi, located in a tiny village in a rural part of Uttarakhand, is […]
If I had to describe my first month in India in one word it would be colourful. From the moment I stepped off the plane in Delhi I have experienced a sensory overload of noises, smells, and the most brilliant colours. From the beautiful spices and fruits lining the streets, to the women’s kurtas and […]
After the success of the first travelling workshop in Uttarakhand in the year 2011, the ICICI Fellows Programme team was eager to replicate the same experience for the 3rd batch of ICICI Fellows Designate (IFDs) PRAYAN – the travelling workshop means commencement or progress towards. And so we did on May 6, 2013 to Ladakh […]
The first ever iVolunteer Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai on April 8, 2013. The awards identify the champions leading the volunteering movement in India, recognize the contribution of volunteers and organisations that enable volunteering; and aim to celebrate, reward and promote volunteering in India. Nandita Das, Actor Director with a fiery passion for social change was Guest […]
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 […]
I have had so much fun volunteering at the Siddapura Community Learning Center! I made a lot of new friends and interacted with all the kids! We did arts and crafts and read story books. Also, we played chess and carrom board! I cant wait to come back to India again, so I can volunteer […]
Wow, a new year!!, a new beginning – that is what most of the young think. For slightly older people like me, it is just another year – a date change ;). Most of us welcome new year by our resolutions only to get into life’s revolutions by the end of the 1st month. And […]
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