IN THIS ISSUE

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS TO “THE PITCH” EXTENDED

IYV+10…THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES

•       What are you planning for IYV+10?

•       IAVE’s IYV+10 Calendar

NEWS FROM IAVE

•       From the World President

•       Eligibility for the 2010 Election

•       Update on the 2011 World Conference

•       Report from the Arab Nations Region

•       IAVE Has Strong Presence at US National Volunteer Conference

•       Update on the  Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project

FROM IAVE MEMBERS

•       From Japan: The Make A Change Day Awards

•       Letter from Esther Herlitz in Israel

•       Signposting Your Organization through the Volunteer Management Portal

•       National Volunteer Strategy Consultation Underway in Australia

FROM THE EDITOR 

This issue was delayed so that we could bring you the latest news on “The Pitch”, a special feature of the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in Singapore, January 2011.  Please read the following article carefully to learn how you can participate.

 

Our next issue, at the end of July will present the nominees standing for election as IAVE Vice-President and as Regional Representatives as well as a report on the meeting of the IAVE Board of Directors to be held July 22-27.

-- Kenn Allen

 

Deadline for Applications to “The Pitch” Extended

 

Organizers of the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in Singapore have extended the deadline for receipt of applications for “The Pitch” to “at least July 31” to ensure that as many organizations as possible have the opportunity to participate.  While a further extension is possible, we urge you to submit your application by the new deadline of July 31.

 

As of June 30, applications had been received from the Philippines, Singapore, Kenya, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Rwanda and Zambia.

 

What is “The Pitch”?

 

“The Pitch” is a “contest with a serious purpose.”  It is a way for NGOs to propose new or existing sustainable initiative that exemplifies the conference theme, “Volunteering to Change the World.”

 

Finalists will have the opportunity to present (“pitch”) their ideas to a panel of judges and the audience during the conference.  Travel and accommodation will be provided for up to two representatives of each finalist.

 

Winners have the possibility of being awarded up to US$75,000 in prize money!!  Both an independent panel of judges and the audience will participate in selecting the winners.

 

How do we apply?

 

Go to www.iave2011.org, click on “The Pitch” and follow the directions.  Applications must be received by 6 PM Singapore time on July 31 and must be submitted on the form provided on the website.

 

Who is sponsoring “The Pitch”?

 

“The Pitch” is being sponsored by UBS, the diversified global financial services company based in Switzerland with a business presence in over 50 countries.  UBS is a member of IAVE’s Global Corporate Volunteer Council.

 

IYV+10…the countdown continues

 

ONLY 6 MONTHS TO GO!  2011 is the 10^th Anniversary of the United Nation’s International Year of Volunteers in 2001.  As it did in 2001, IAVE is giving leadership to the nongovernmental volunteer community in celebrating this global recognition of volunteering. 

 

WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING FOR IYV+10?  Please tell us your plans so we can share them with others through E-IAVE.  Just email to membership@iave.org.

 

IAVE’s IYV+10 calendar

 

Here is how our calendar is shaping up for the lead-in to and celebration of the 10^th Anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers:

 

2010

 

July 23-26                   Meeting of the IAVE Board of Directors in Washington DC

 

September 16-18        Arab Nations Regional Conference in Lebanon

 

September 27-29        Latin America Regional Conference in Colombia

 

2011

 

January 21-24             Youth Volunteer Conference segment of the World Volunteer Conference,

                                    Singapore

 

January 24-27             21^st World Volunteer Conference in Singapore in partnership with the

                                    National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre

 

October                       13^th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in South Korea

 

November 3-5             Global Youth Volunteer Summit in Barranquilla, Colombia in partnership

                                    with Partners of the Americas

 

2012

 

September                  22^nd World Volunteer Conference in Ireland in partnership with

Volunteering Ireland

 

news from iave

 

From the World President

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

The time is rapidly approaching for our election of a new Vice-President and for Regional Representatives from Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America and the French-speaking nations of Africa.  The nominating period now has closed and I am pleased to report that we have excellent candidates.  Nominees will be announced in the next issue of E-IAVE.  You will be receiving voting papers and ballots around August 15.  I urge you to participate in the election and help choose those who will lead IAVE in the next four years.

 

The IAVE Board of Directors will hold its annual meeting in Washington DC July 22-27.  We have a very full agenda, including committing a significant portion of our time together to strategic planning for IAVE’s future.  I look forward to reporting to you on the outcome of that meeting next month.

 

Dr. Kang-Hyun Lee

World President

 

eligibility for the 2010 election

 

In order to vote in the upcoming elections for Vice-President and Regional Representatives, members must be currently paid as of July 31, 2010.  Notices will be sent in the coming week to expired members reminding them to renew.

 

If you know your membership is expiring prior to July 31, 2010, please renew by going to www.iave.org, downloading the membership form and returning it with payment to membership@iave.org.

 

 

UPDATE ON THE 2011 WORLD VOLUNTEER CONFERENCE

 

Online registration is now open for the conference.  The reduced rate early bird registration ends September 30 – US$400 instead of US$450 for IAVE members.

 

 To register and for complete details on the conference – www.iave2011.org.

 

REPORT FROM THE ARAB NATIONS REGION

 

[This report comes from Patricia Nabti, Regional Representative to the IAVE Board of Directors from the Arab Nations Region.  She can be reached at pnabti@gmail.com.]

 

IAVE is one of three strategic partners working together to coordinate The Arab Initiative to Foster a Culture of Volunteering 2010-2011, along with the Association for Volunteer Services (AVS) and the Arab Thought Foundation (ATF). The Initiative is a framework to capitalize on IYV+10  to motivate individuals, organizations, service institutions, schools, universities, government agencies, and socially responsible businesses throughout the Arab World to work together to strengthen and improve volunteering in the region.

 

Its six main objectives are to:

1)      Bring together key people in volunteerism in the Arab World to share knowledge, experiences, and needs regarding volunteering in the region.

2)      Provide basic training, as well as orientation to other training opportunities available, with the goal of expanding and improving the core of specialists in volunteerism in the Arab World, drawing on Arab cultural traditions and experiences, as well as expertise from within the region and worldwide.

3)      Develop effective service programs for elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools, technical schools, and universities that foster a culture of volunteering.

4)      Provide funding opportunities for those who would develop major sustainable volunteer development projects in their countries in 2011.

5)      Provide information, models, support, and advocacy for the development of national volunteer policies in countries of the region.

6)      Develop mechanisms for networking, resource development, sharing, collaboration, and mutual support among those who promote volunteering in the region that will last long after 2011.

 

Since one of the Initiative’s strategic partners, AVS, is the Regional Lead Agency for Global Youth Service Days, GYSD has been incorporated into the Initiative. Representatives of the Initiative attended the Arab Youth Summit at the Library of Alexandria in February where our Youth Coordinator spoke about GYSD and the Initiative, and we have had extensive online correspondence with youth leaders throughout the region. As a result, more countries of the Arab region are participating in GYSD this year and over 50 youth service projects are being implemented in Lebanon alone April 23-25, and we will hold a GYSD Recognition and Awards Event on May 23.

 

Other programs now on the Initiative calendar include:

 

May 14: A one day workshop for authors and publishers “Writing Children’s Books that Foster a Culture of Volunteering”. The workshop, which will be held in Beirut, will provide training in volunteering and guidance in how to write culturally authentic books on volunteering that also serve other curricular objectives, present examples of appropriate books in other languages, and announce an incentive program that will help in the marketing of such books.

 

July 12-18: The Learning to CARE Training Institute will train nine country teams of four people each to serve in their own countries as trainers for the development of effective school service programs.

 

September 15-19: The First IAVE Regional Conference for the Arab Nations will open in Beirut September 15, followed by a three day conference at the University of Balamand in northern Lebanon, and then a one day planning session for a team of researchers who will work together to design research on volunteering for the region.

 

In addition to those events the Initiative will have a number of ongoing programs, including online training and networking seminars, the collection of available resources to support volunteerism in the region, the translation of some of these resources into Arabic, the development of new resources in Arabic, and an online clearinghouse to make resources in Arabic easily available throughout the region.

 

We hope, through the Initiative, to have new IAVE members and an IAVE National Lead Agency in each of the 22 Arab countries, and we hope to have good regional representation at the World Volunteer Conference in Singapore in January 2011. For more information about the Initiative see www.avs.org.lb/initiative.html - and if you know of anyone who can contribute to or benefit from the Initiative please let us know at initiative@avs.org.lb.

 

IAVe has strong presence at u.S. national volunteer conference

 

IAVE was well represented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New York City, June 28-30.  Our informal delegation was led by IAVE executive director Kathi Dennis who chaired a workshop panel around the topic “Think Globally, Act Globally”.  Panelists were all from IAVE and our partner organizations:

 

§  David Fong from the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre in Singapore who promoted the World Volunteer Conference;

§  Matt Clausen from Partners of the Americas, our partner organization for the Global Youth Volunteer Summit in Colombia in November 2011; who discussed collaboration in support of youth service and explained the role the Summit will play in that effort;

§  Kenn Allen, director of our Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project, who explained the project and presented some initial learnings from it; and,

§  Monica Galiano, IAVE member from Brazil and member of the corporate volunteering research team, who discussed trends in corporate volunteering in Latin America.

 

Sarah Hayes, consultant director of IAVE’s Global Corporate Volunteer Council, chaired a workshop panel on Global Companies Volunteering Globally.  It featured Ed Martinez from UPS, our GCVC member and Platinum sponsor for the corporate volunteering research project; Paul Bueker from GE, a Gold sponsor of the project; and Oonagh Puglisi from Pfizer, also a Gold sponsor.

 

David Styers, Regional Representative for North America and IAVE Treasurer, was very visible at the conference. 

 

Susan Danish, CEO of the Association of Junior Leagues International, our National Representative for the United States, sponsored and hosted a reception for IAVE members on Monday evening at the Warwick Hotel.  It was an excellent opportunity to bring IAVE members together with our partners, colleagues from other organizations and potential members.

 

We were pleased to see IAVE members Akiko Seto from Japan; Stan Fisher from Canada (former IAVE Vice President and host of the 1998 World Conference; Heloise Coelho from Rio Voluntario in Brazil; Sarah Thoma, IAVE member from the U.S. and now in practice as a consultant to NGOs; and Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher, former U.S. national representative from Hands on Central Ohio.

 

update on the GLobal corporate volunteering research project

 

Work is intensifying on the Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project which is being conducted by IAVE’s Global Corporate Volunteer Council.  Here are some of the highlights.

 

§  There is now a project website – www.gcvcresearch.org.  Please go there to learn about the project in detail.

 

§  Sponsorships have been secured from nine global companies – UPS (our lead Platinum sponsor); GE, Motorola and Pfizer (Gold sponsors); and, BD, Kraft Foods, Lilly, SK Telecom and Fundacion Telefonica (Silver sponsors).

§  A total of 41 companies (against the goal of 50) have committed to participate in the Global Companies Study component of the project.  Of these, 24 have already been interviewed.

§  Over 20 NGOs have signed on as Cooperating Organizations.  They play leadership roles in promoting and supporting corporate volunteering in their countries and regions and around the world.  They have agreed to endorse the project to support the work with their knowledge and to make it visible through their networks.  A complete list can be found on the project website.

§  Plans are in place to present the results of the project at the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in Singapore.

 

The State of Health Study which is working region by region is well underway:

 

§  The “State of Health of Corporate Volunteering in Europe” forum was held in Spain in April in cooperation with the European Volunteer Centre

§  The Latin American forum is scheduled in September in Bogota, Colombia in conjunction with the IAVE Latin American Regional Conference

§  The Arab Nations Forum is scheduled in September in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the IAVE Arab Nations Regional Conference

§  An Australian forum is scheduled in October in Melbourne in cooperation with Volunteering Australia

§  Interviews with leading NGOs, consultants and scholars are ongoing

§  In-depth review of existing research and commentary is ongoing

 

How you can participate.  The State of Health Study seeks to collect perceptions of corporate volunteering from the broadest possible perspective.  We would love to know your views.  To contribute, go to www.gcvcresearch.org and follow the link to the online State of Health Survey.

 

FROM IAVE MEMBERS

 

FROM japan: the Make A Change Day Awards

 

[Thanks to Linda Taki, IAVE member from Nagoya, Japan, for this article.  It is an excellent illustration of the worldwide similarity and diversity of volunteering.  For more information, Linda can be reached at rsc_ltaki@yahoo.com.]

 

The First Make A Change Day in Nagoya, Japan was held November 22, 2009. Make A Change Day is one day a year when people throughout Japan and around the world simultaneously take part in volunteer activties and community action projects. It was the perfect opportunity for  170 volunteer groups to be involved. There were 20,000 volunteers participating in 210 volunteer activities. 

 

The Awarding ceremony for the First Annual Make A Change Day was held March 27, 2010 at the Nagoya International Center Annex Hall.  This ceremony was a very meaningful event where all the participants were able to honor each other’s volunteer activities/projects and encourage one another to strive even further.

 

The Make a Change Day Grand prize was awarded to “Amago no satoya”  the citizens group that organized movement to clean river and lake by fish roe. The egg of “amago” a small kind of salmon is stored in the pet bottle and refrigerated and released to the river after three months.

 

There were four recipients for the Award for Excellence:

§  Denso Corporation, for promoting the “Community Service Day” and implementing the "DECO Walk" campaign participated by DENSO employees together with their families and local people such as street cleaning and tree-planting around eight DENSO sites

§  NPO Kurukuru for implementing ECO activities

§  WAVOC, an institution of Waseda University together with Forestry Volunteering at Mt. Takao and The Hirayama Ikuo volunteer Center offered a wide range of volunteer projects in which students play a lead role in planning and facilitating, With the event called “Bonding beyond Generations” students, alumni and others did some volunteer work to keep forest clean and children were given opportunites to play in the forest

§  Thepsatri Rajabhat University in Thailand, Japanese section for the Bank of Garbage project.. Accepts garbage deposits and exchange the garbage (recycled goods) for small gifts

 

There were eight recipients of Special Awards

 

§  G Child Project Group for Making ECO ART with used bottle caps. Used caps are donated for bottles for vaccines  in the developing countries;

§  OISCA Aichi Chapter for agricultural and tree planting projects;

§  SWITCH group for doing 100 things of Kindness (e.g. giving directions to places, picking up garbage and blood donation) to people at Shibuya, Ueno, Akihabara subway stations in Tokyo;

§  Making rice by youth people (Wakamono-tachide-jikyumai;
 

§  Coral Network Team and Team Reef Check Tokashiki, for protecting and rehabilitating coral reefs worldwide; 

§  Toyoda Gosei Co. Limited for Afforestation Project of Plants;

§  Adachi couple for implementing cleaning activities of the Yada River; and,

§  The Banana Club for organizing “Banana Paper” workshop for making recycle paper.

 

There were six recipients for the Incentive Award:

 

• Heartful Music Group for organizing the Heartful Flute Concert on the theme of “Protecting the Environment”;
  
  
  
  
• Kamenokotai, environmental volunteer group implementing Nishinohama Beach Clean up Activity 155 times;
  
  
  
  
• Aisin Seiki Limited for forest preservation of Aichi Prefecture natural monument Nepa Hoffmannis:
  
  
  
  
• Toyota Group Volunteer Network; Group for Forestry Experimental work;
  
  
  
  
• Seto Networking Citizen Activity Association; and,
  
  
  
  
• Let’s Introduce Eco Action Association for implementation of children’s support through forest therapy

 

A Special Mention Award was given to Society of Haiti for implementing feeding service campaign to Haiti’s children.

 

letter from esther herlitz in israel

 

[Esther Herlitz is a legendary figure in the volunteer community.  She founded the Israel Centre for Volunteer Services in 1972.  She is a former diplomat – serving as Ambassador to Denmark for five years – and politician.  She is a long-time member of IAVE.  We are always pleased to receive an email from her.  She can be reached by email at drorafry@zahav.net.il.]

 

I read your newsletters with great interest. With the 2011 events approaching, I would like to suggest a shift from the emphasis on youth volunteers to what we call in Hebrew the “Third Age”, namely the very many retired people with some twenty more years to live, who have knowledge, skills and time, who can, and should, volunteer in the community.

 

We have good experience with the elderly volunteers, some projects we researched; [but also] I am aware of the shorter lives in developing countries.

 

Did you know that on the occasion of the first Volunteer Year, myself and eleven other people, lit torches at an Israel Independence Day celebration dedicated to Volunteering. We must do something like this in 2011.

 

Last, but not least, I have resigned from the chairmanship of the International Harp Contest and the Zimriya (world assembly of choirs), which I held as a volunteer for 27 years. They have now honored me to be the Honorary President.

 

This is a long e-mail. I still have no computer at home, please reply to drorafry@zahav.net.il

 

I shall be happy to hear from you.

 

Esther Herlitz

 

signposting your organization through the volunteer management portal

 

[The information in this article is adapted from emails received from Ally Hammock, Volunteer Management Senior Officer at Volunteering England in London.  Her email is Alison.hammock@volunteeringengland.org.]

 

I am writing to tell you about Volunteering England's new Volunteer Management Portal, funded by CapacityBuilders.

 

The Volunteer Management Portal is a new signposting tool for people managing volunteers in the third, public and private sectors. It aims to provide people managing volunteers with greater access to a wide range of information on support, training and development opportunities.

 

You will find the portal at http://www.volunteering.org.uk/vmportal.

 

To develop the content for the Volunteer Management Portal, Volunteering England and the 9 Regional England Development Councils undertook a comprehensive mapping exercise. During the exercise we mapped organization’s which provide support to people managing volunteers under the following categories;

 

Information, Advice, Guidance / Training Provider / Direct Services / Consultancy / Organisational Health Check / Peer Support and Networks / Publications and Resources / Other

 

Through the Volunteer Management Portal search facility users can search for organizations and/or the support they provide and will be provided with a link to their websites and a brief description of their work.

 

national volunteer strategy consultation underway in australia

 

[We have learned of this effort through Volunteering Australia, our National Representative in Australia.  The draft paper provides an interesting example of potential government strategy about volunteering and may be helpful as others seek to work with their governments.  For more information, contact Cary Pedicini, CEO of Volunteering Australia at cary.pedicini@volunteeringaustralia.org.

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been progressing with plans to develop a National Volunteering Strategy. This Strategy will shape the government's vision for volunteering over the next ten years. The strategy will be released to mark the 10 year anniversary of the United Nations International Year of Volunteers (IYV +10) which will be celebrated through the world in 2011.

 

The strategy development is now at the community consultation phase and Volunteering Australia is encouraging its stakeholders to participate by providing comment to the government.

 

See the draft at:
 http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/files/3EVUDCX7XX/NVS_Consultation_Paper_June2010.DOC