About ICVolunteers

ICVolunteers is an international non-profit organization specialized in the field of communications, in particular languages, conference support and cybervolunteerism.

We work with volunteers to implement social and educational programs in order to help populations and local communities to develop.

Through volunteer effort, we cooperate with organizations in the humanitarian, social, environmental and medical fields to implement projects and conferences at local, national and international levels.

In addition, ICVolunteers promotes volunteerism and its recognition, by enhancing civic commitment and involvement, and by providing leadership and links between organizations, individuals and communities.

With headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland), ICVolunteers has offices and permanent representation in a number of other countries, including France, Spain, South Africa, Mali, Japan and Brazil.

Our Mission

ICVolunteers is an organization the mission of which is, on one hand, to create opportunities of personal, social and professional development, and on the other hand, accompany structures, institutions, associations, communities and companies in the implementation of programs and projects corresponding to ICVolunteers' vision and ethics.

Who Benefits from ICVolunteers?

ICVolunteers creates opportunities covering a wide variety of interests that benefit both volunteers and public or private entities, nongovernmental organizations and international institutions.

Objectives

For volunteers, interns and job seekers:
To gain practical experience, to improve their employability, to share their expertise and skills, to be socially integrated by participating in public interest projects whether in a context of proximity or in international cooperation.

For beneficiaries of services (structures, organizations, populations and projects):
To receive practical and methodological advice, to benefit from a service of quality, to benefit from accompanying, advice and sharing of experience.

Means

Communications: languages, cybervolunteering, support and organization of conferences and seminars, citizen initatives.

Themes

Language and culture, education, science and research, information and communication technologies, migration, sustainable, economic and social development, peace, health, human rights, humanitarian.

Our Network

Special thanks go to all our volunteers how have spent over 40,000 hours of work for our projects in 2007. 600 volunteer positions were coordinated by ICVolunteers, which has at this point a network of 10,000 individuals, partners and volunteers. Our volunteers are from some 189 countries and speak over 155 languages.

What we offer

ICVolunteers offers professional assistance, and both provides and trains volunteers for a wide range of non-profit events and activities by:

• Recruiting and managing volunteers
• Providing welcome and logistical services
• Offering language services: translation and interpretation
• Writing and editing articles or conference reports
• Setting up and managing an online and onsite library on volunteerism
• Building new programs in response to longer-term needs for technical assistance in developing countries
• Coordinating the CyberVolunteers Program, which links volunteers who have information technology skills to ongoing projects, enabling South-South, North-South and South-North cooperation