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International Volunteer HQ Limited (IVHQ) is a New Zealand-based volunteer travel company founded by Daniel John Radcliffe in 2007. [2] [3] In September 2015, it has sent 50,000 volunteers overseas to 30 countries on 200 different projects. [3] In November 2017, the Sydney investment company Mercury Capital acquired a majority stake in IVHQ. [1]
For-profit travel companies have also increasingly been offering paid-for volunteering opportunities, this growth coincided with the increasing number of young people taking gap years and has been termed volunteer tourism and voluntourism to denote shorter-term voluntary work that is not necessarily the sole purpose of the trip. [3]
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).
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In 1962, the practice changed to using university graduate volunteers. [6] By 1980, the unskilled volunteers had been completely phased out and the length of service had been extended to two years. [7] Active volunteer numbers initially dropped to about 750, but by 2003 had returned to about 1,400.
“We have a big kitchen now, and we go to disaster areas feeding the volunteers and the community. Anyone wanting a meal can come get it totally free,” said Holifield.
International Student Volunteers (ISV) is a non-profit organization originally based in Yorba Linda, California. The organization dissolved in California in 2018. [ 1 ] Originally founded under the name Youth in Action, the organization operated on a voluntary basis and provides educational and travel programs for university students.
The Points of Light Foundation received an annual allocation from the Corporation for National and Community Service to manage some of that agency's programs, and administered the President's Volunteer Service Award program, which was created by President George W. Bush in 2003. The group also sponsored conferences, offered training and other ...