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After the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami, Yoshioka established the Peace Boat Disaster Relief Volunteer Centre (PBV), which has dispatched more than 14,000 volunteers to the stricken region and helped to rebuild devastated neighborhoods, as well as working on Disaster Risk Reduction through training young leaders worldwide.
Rumie, an edtech non-profit organization also uses subject-matter experts, as well as corporate partners and leading non-profit organizations to create interactive learning modules centered on life skills and career development called Bytes. Rumie is an example of how virtual volunteering can offer an experience that is impactful on various levels.
Campus Living Villages (CLV) is a global student accommodation provider with services in finance, design, development, project management and operation of student housing. [1] CLV is one of the largest higher education student housing providers in the world. [ 2 ]
CharityVillage.com was founded by Doug Jamieson and Jim Hilborn. [8] [9]The site launched on July 13, 1995, with about 100 pages of content. [10] One of the earliest websites to focus on servicing the nonprofit sector, CharityVillage.com quickly became a resource hub for people involved in the sector across Canada.
Inspired by the potential of the web and the success of NetDay, VolunteerMatch.org was launched on April 25, 1998, as a merger between Impact Online, Inc. (a California nonprofit organization started by MBAs Mark Benning, Joanne Ernst, Steve Glikbarg, and Cindy Shove) and Volunteer America (a project co-founded by Jay Backstrand and Craig Jacoby).
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
Volunteer teacher is a passionate individual who connects to the digital classroom in a rural government school and teaches a subject for two hours a week (one hour each on two separate days) using a video conferencing software. The volunteer teachers teach in the regional language spoken in the village where their assigned school is located.