TOPIC: VOLUNTEERING (95)
Bamboo Project
http://www.bamboo-project.comThe Bamboo Project was founded in 2013 to support ongoing community, animal, environment and teaching projects across Thailand. Through the supply of volunteers and funding, Bamboo works with NGO’s and community based organisations to help start, maintain and complete work that is already established. All of the projects that we support are designed to be sustainable and must show that communities and individuals are receiving the necessary tools to carry on the work once the start-up has been completed.
BUNAC
http://www.bunac.org/ukBUNAC is an organisation that specialises in sending young people on working holidays, internships and volunteer projects worldwide from Australia to China. With over 52 years of experience helping young people to work abroad, BUNAC’s programmes provide support while you travel the world, gain invaluable experience and make friends for life.
Zero Bound
http://www.zerobound.com
Zero Bound is a web-based platform for students and alumni to reduce student loan debt through sponsored volunteerism. Students and alumni crowdfund their student loans in exchange for volunteering in the community.
VolNepal
http://www.volnepal.orgVolunteer Nepal National Group (Volnepal, VNNG) is a local, independent, non-profit organization. VNNG was founded in 2000 and registered with the Chief District Administration Office and the Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu in 2004.
VNNG was created to implement new initiatives and platforms that could better answer the need for communication between volunteers and community groups with NGOs operating both locally and internationally.
African Conservation Experience
https://www.conservationafrica.netAfrican Conservation Experience (ACE) organise placements at wildlife conservation projects in southern Africa. Conservation travellers can join the projects for a duration of 2-12 weeks and participate actively in a project of their choice. Projects range in focus from animal care at wildlife rehabilitation centres to wildlife veterinary work, field research, reserve management or marine conservation. ACE have been operating since 1999 and are one of the most experiences specialists for wildlife conservation in Africa. Projects are fully supported and available year round.
AARP Experience Corps
http://www.aarp.org/experience-corpsAARP Experience Corps, an award-winning national program, engages people 50-plus in meeting their community's greatest challenges. Two thousand AARP Experience Corps volunteer members tutor and mentor in 19 cities across the country, providing literacy coaching, homework help, consistent role models and committed, caring attention
Doing Good Together
http://www.doinggoodtogether.orgDoing Good Together aims to inspire and equip people to raise compassionate and socially conscious children through family volunteerism and an intentional effort to practice kindness. DGT was founded on the belief that when parents engage with their children in community service, they pass along the spirit of giving and goodness to their sons and daughters, strengthen families, and raise a new generation of volunteers and philanthropists and help create a kind-hearted world.
uVolunteer
http://www.uvolunteer.netThe uVolunteer program specializes in arranging and managing international volunteer placement only in Costa Rica, Ghana and Thailand. Our experience with these countries is extensive, and the deep knowledge we have of each has made it easy for us to conclude that they are the best for fun, safe volunteer vacations abroad.
United We Serve
http://www.serve.govUnited We Serve is a nationwide service initiative that helps meet growing social needs resulting from the economic downturn. With the knowledge that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when given the proper tools,
Be My Eyes
http://www.bemyeyes.orgBe My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Download now and start helping blind people see.
Me to We
http://www.metowe.comMe to We is an innovative social enterprise that provides people with better choices for a better world. We offer socially conscious and environmentally friendly products as well as life-changing experiences. Me to We measures the bottom line, not by dollars earned, but by the number of lives changed and the positive social and environmental impact made. Half of Me to We’s net profit is donated to Free The Children. The other half is reinvested to grow the enterprise and its social mission.
Project 10
http://p10.qc.caProject 10 works to promote the personal, social, sexual and mental well being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersexed and questioning youth and adults 14-25.
The Volunteer Centre
http://www.frivillighed.dk/Webnodes/English/296The Volunteer Centre in Denmark was established in 1992 on a national basis to promote and support the development of voluntary social work in Denmark.
The Hotes Foundation
http://hotesfoundation.orgThe Hotes Foundation provides emergency relief by providing shelter, food and man power to disaster and poverty-stricken areas around the world, including: Pakistan, Peru, Mexico, Bangladesh, Philippines, Taiwan, Haiti, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Our focus is simple: more volunteers with us, serving the poorest of the poor - changing “giving” to “going.”
Give It Forward Today (GIFT)
http://www.jgift.org/index.phpGIFT is an independent charity whose purpose it is to encourage, educate and promote a culture of giving and volunteering in the community.
