On August 23, 2024, nonprofit, university, and other community leaders in Athens, Georgia gathered at the University of Georgia’s Delta Innovation Hub to celebrate the launch of IVolunteerNow, a mobile app for volunteering in Georgia. Preliminary available in Athens, the mobile app will identify the user’s live location and show them volunteer projects to sign-up…
IVolunteerNow, a mobile application owned by the tech-nonprofit IVolunteer International will be launched in late August this year at the University of Georgia’s Delta Innovation Hub in Athens, Georgia. Having won the University of Georgia Kickstarter Fund in 2022 and the Truist Community Pitch Event in 2023, the mobile app will make volunteering fun, easy,…
IVolunteer International’s flagship project, IVolunteerNow, was going through a period of customer discovery and beta testing when COVID-19 ravaged the world. People searched avenues to give back, help their communities, and mobilize during this time. When in-person gatherings declined, communities and nonprofits suffered the most without essential volunteer support and the lack of an on-demand…
On Thursday, November 9, 2023, entrepreneurs from all walks of life lined up at the front of the stage at the Delta Innovation Hub at the University of Georgia, geared to make their case (and pitch) for a chance to win the inaugural Truist Community Initiatives Pitch Competition. Truist’s partnership and commitment to excellence, innovation,…
Since inception in late 2017, IVolunteer International has grown tremendously as an organization in operation capacity and impact. To-date, IVolunteer International has facilitated volunteer-led impact in-person and online through over 200,000 people. With the bold vision of creating 7 billion volunteers in the world, IVolunteer International believes in the ability of every single human being…
After four years of accelerated growth and global impact, IVolunteer International inducted a new group of community leaders to the organization’s Board of Directors. Since 2017, IVolunteer International has created technologies that make volunteering fun, easy, and equitable in line with the organization’s vision of “creating 7 billion volunteers in the world.” The new board…
IVolunteer International is a volunteer advocacy tech-nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia. Since establishment in 2017, the organization has grown in size and impact. As a tech-nonprofit, IVolunteer International uses technology to empower people and communities to efficiently engage in impact. In 2020 during the pandemic, a lot of people wanted to become volunteers and help….
I hope this fund will help students find and affirm the voices of people everywhere who fight for freedom, justice and equality for themselves and their people Ms. Charlayne Hunter-Gault The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism awarded IVolunteer International the “Giving Voice to the Voiceless” grant to support the Writers’ Council Fellowship. The…
IVolunteer International today earned a 2021 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information. By sharing metrics that highlight progress IVolunteer International is making toward its mission, the organization is helping donors move beyond simplistic ways of nonprofit evaluation such as overhead ratios. As…
The Borgen Project’s exclusive article and interview of our Executive Director can be found on the Borgen Project website.
This story was first written in Connect Savannah. Read the original article here. THREE YEARS ago, IVolunteer International was launched as a way to remove barriers to volunteerism in Savannah. Its cofounder and executive director, Nipuna Ambanpola, was an avid volunteer while growing up in Sri Lanka, but found fewer opportunities while he was attending…
IVolunteer International’s Writers’ Council was established in 2019 with the goal of establishing an online platform for youth leaders and writers to share their stories and the stories of others. The Writers’ Council fuels our blog and stands as a platform for change-making, and a source for inspiration to our readers. Established under the leadership…