Interacting with the three worlds ! It all began on the 30th of April. I received a call that I need to take permission for Cubbon park clean up and need to design activities for 7th June’s corporate employee volunteering program or shortly known as the CEVP. CEVP is one of iVolunteer’s programs conducted in […]
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 […]
While volunteering is done for FREE by volunteers agencies like iVolunteer try to put a number to the value that volunteering has generated for the NGO. However its easier said then done. Take for example when a volunteer designs a newsletter for an organisation. The volunteer might think that the value of his or her work is […]
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 […]
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Not a GyAni but I love GYAN. Why? cause Get Your Answers Now, volunteer led customized workshops, is what it means to me and hope that with time it will replace the existing connotation of the word “gyan”, at least the development sector !. What makes me hopeful of this change is not only my passion […]
Rarely does it happen that one gets to experience the grass from both sides. I am lucky I got the chance. It was almost 4 years ago, when I joined iVolunteer as a volunteer. I was called for a volunteer orientation. I wasn’t sure if I needed any orientation. I just wanted to start volunteering […]
Last weekend my niece and nephew helped me clear up a small garden patch in our housing society, uprooting thorny shrubs and creepers. They now use this clearing to play cricket and badminton. Each time they are thanked for cleaning up the place they are thrilled! They may have not realised it but we volunteered… This got […]
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 […]
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