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Citizenship Volunteering in India

Everyone can be a Santa!

Ongoing winters are predicted to be harsh in Delhi. Children from orphanages and shelter home lack warm woollens. This winter, 24 santas put their heads, hearts and hands together to fundraise INR 40,500 and distribute woolen caps, socks, gloves and winter lotions and creams for 120 children from DMRC Children Home, Tis Hazari. The excitement […]

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GYAN GYAN+ Volunteering in India

How I polished my GYAN with GYAN+

As a person, I enjoy learning things – online and offline. Marketing, Branding, Project Management are some of my favourite areas of learning. Being in charge of managing training programs for non-profits in Bangalore, it often doesn’t give me the chance to simply participate in these sessions. And here I was, at the GYAN+ training with […]

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Impact Volunteering

This Summer Things Get Solved If You Get Involved

Did you know that over 39% boys & 33% girls dropout from schools before completing their elementary education! Research has also shown that poor academic performance, lack of interest in studies and need for employment to support family could be prime reasons for this trend. iVolunteer understands that summer vacations are crucial times for children. With […]

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Why do Volunteers QUIT?

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 […]

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Designing for CHANGE !!!

Meet Anusha Subramanian – Impact Volunteer from Mumbai sharing her experiences on volunteering !!! Tell us something about yourself ? I am an interior design professional with a graduate degree in designing from Raffles Design International. Currently working with a reputed architectural firm in Mumbai. I love to indulge in DIY(do it yourself) projects on […]

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Vikram Buddhiraja- Full time Corporate professional+ Part time Blogger + Weekend Volunteer creating Impact!!

I am a Supply Chain Management professional with a graduation in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology. My daily job revolves around providing supply chain solutions and catering to the needs of power plant projects. I am married and blessed with a lovely son. He’s soon going to be one year old. In my […]

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Bangalore Katpadi 400 kms Drive Worth it to “Worth Trust”

When GiftAbled started we ordered few products from Worth Trust (as referred by Enable India). I always loved their quick turnaround in sending quotations and products. Prateek and self were thinking for quite sometime to visit the place and check out all products manufactured in Worth Trust. Finally the day came, I fixed an appointment […]

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“Experiencing the greatest kind of joy” – Umang Johri, an Impact Volunteer

Like lakhs in our country, I’m also an engineer. And like thousands of those engineers, I’m also preparing for my post graduation right now. It’s true that whatever preparations and studies I am doing for post graduation are going to have a fruitful long-term return, but still, hours spent on going through books, thousand pages long, […]

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Impact Volunteering

Volunteering- a way to give back to society!

Our volunteer from Pune – Ms. Shobha Javalgikar, who is a trainer and counselor,speaks about her volunteering journey with iVolunteer. Shobha is helping an NGO in Pune for translating  their communication material. Let’s see what she has to say about iVolunteer. “It really gives me pleasure to speak about iVolunteer. iVolunteer is playing a pivotal […]

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Meet Ramesh: An Operations Professional strengthening Non-Profits

Ramesh M.V, an Operations Professional, based in Delhi, is an engineer+MBA with more than 12 years of a typical ‘corporate life’ experience.  While most of his working life was spent in the TATA group (well-known for its philanthropic efforts), his direct role in such activities was limited to a single three-month project in rural Gujarat. “I […]