iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringLittle did I know the journey I began 13 years ago would alter my perspective and re define the path that I took in my life. Unaware of the word Volunteering I began with collecting as little as 50 Rs from the neighbors and relatives to contribute for Quake that Shook Gujarat and that was […]
800 Synopsys employees, their family and friends participated in day-long, youth-focused volunteer events across the globe for their first ever Global Volunteer Week, from May 11-18, 2013. Of these 102 employees volunteered on May 11, in Bangalore in an initiative enabled by iVolunteer’s Corporate Employee Volunteering Programme team. Volunteers teamed up with 125 students from […]
Since the last issue, we have been speaking to many people and volunteers on being active citizens, working together, asking themselves “who am I” and “What change am I going to influence today”. Perhaps a very simplistic definition of ‘actively working together’ in a representative democracy like ours is to maintain a balance between our […]
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 […]
It was 5th January 2013, Saturday early morning I reached Traffic Police Park, St. Mark’s Road, where I saw many traffic police constables, equal no. Of Children from various schools, volunteers, auto drivers and Pourakarmikas (people/sweepers on road, garbage pickers who keep our city cleanJ) With a hope and wish to spread some happiness and […]
December 5th is International Volunteers’ Day (IVD) and December 18th iVolunteer’s Birthday:) So from 5th to 18th, we at iVolunteer will target the volunteers of tomorrow – ‘students’, from 1st to 12th grade. We aim to inspire young minds and so we will reach out to schools – private, public and community driven – and […]
iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteering 