International Year of Volunteers - IYV 2001: Web News / Ambiente Ecológico WWW

Sumario:

Editorial

Columnistas

Opinión

Investigación

Información General

Agenda 21

Salud

Flora

Fauna

Publicaciones

Cartas de los Lectores

Edition 73 / August 2000

General Information

International Year of Volunteers
IYV 2001

Web News

This month we will focus on how to find volunteer opportunities online. The links below lead to online search engines and directories of volunteer organizations and opportunities.

Idealist: Action Without Borders: http://www.idealist.org
The Idealist website has a large database of 20,000 organizations in 140 countries and offers a comprehensive section devoted to volunteering. You can query their database, look up opportunities by country or search by organizations.
Volunteer link: http://www.guidestar.org/classifieds/index.adp
GuideStar: http://www.guidestar.org
This site offers a searchable database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States with a section devoted to volunteering.
Volunteer link: http://www.guidestar.org/classifieds/index.adp
Energize: http://www.energizeinc.com/
Energize is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism. They have a great lists of volunteer opportunities throughout the world and links to other volunteer opportunity sites.
Volunteer link: http://www.energizeinc.com/prof/volop.html
Oneworld.net: http:www.oneworld.net
The famous news and NGO site has a section devoted to volunteer posts in human rights, environment and sustainable development.
Volunteer link: http://www.oneworld.net/action/volunteers/index.html
AVSO: http://www.avso.org/
The Association of Voluntary Service Organisations (AVSO) has a mirror of the comprehensive "Directory on International Voluntary Service" that has been prepared by Richard de Grijs.
Volunteer link: http://www.avso.org/dirinVS.html
Volunteer Match: http://www.volunteermatch.org/
VolunteerMatch, the organization's premier service, utilizes the power of the Internet to help individuals nationwide find volunteer opportunities posted by local nonprofit and public sector organizations. To date, they have matched 209,380 volunteers.
Red de Información para el Desarrollo de la India: http://www.indev.nic.in
Visitors to this site will find a wealth of information related to development in India. The site contains a search engine of development organization which can be used to find volunteer opportunities.
Volunteer link: http://www.indev.nic.in/indevdb/ngos/ngo_search.cfm

That is all from Team IYV 2001 for this issue. Please send us information about your plans, ideas and activities related to preparations for IYV 2001. And if you are a volunteer, please send us your photograph and a description of your work. Best regards and until next time!

Team IYV 2001

Si tiene alguna duda o sugerencia,
comuníquese con nosotros!!!