Volunteer sites

A list of organisations who offer listings for volunteer positions, or who are recruiting volunteers themselves.

Action Without Borders, Inc - Idealist.org
Action Without Borders maintains Idealist.org, the richest online directory of non-profit information, with information provided by 25,000 organizations worldwide. It has thousands of volunteer opportunities in your community and around the world, and a list of organizations that can help you volunteer abroad.

AidCamps International
AidCamps International is a non-profit organization that runs short-term voluntary work development aid projects overseas.

Amnesty International Urgent Acton Network
The purpose of Urgent Actions is to rapidly produce an internationally coordinated mass protest, to stop or prevent serious human rights violations.

CARE Corps
CARE Corps is an educational travel and hands-on service learning program for people interested in learning about sustainable solutions to poverty in Latin America. CARE Corps volunteers work in partnership with local people in a variety of community development projects. This unique program offers exciting hands-on work opportunities, meaningful cultural exchange with a Peruvian community, and enriching educational sessions about global issues and CARE.

Centre for Alternative Technology
Educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds. We test, live with and display strategies and tools for doing this.

Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is the largest international network of environmental groups in the world.

Geekcorps
Geekcorps is a US-based non-profit organization that places international technical volunteers in developing nations. We contribute to local IT projects while transferring the technical skills.

Global Volunteers
Global Volunteers work projects are directed by local leaders, sustainable development at it's best. We focus on rural issues, which are often over-looked. 15 years of service worldwide. Short-term volunteer programs worldwide include building homes, nurturing children, providing health care, sharing business expertise, and teaching basic subjects.

Haces Falta
A Spanish portal created by Canal Solidario to offer a jobs service, specialized for NGOs, and to facilitate and promote volunteering. Organizations can add their job vacancies and volunteering needs and people can look for these opportunities through the database specifying different interest areas. They also have a section to exchange experiences and debate issues regarding volunteering.

MITRA, Volunteering opportunities in India MITRA is a Non-profit company with the aim of leveraging ICTs for the social sector. As part of that we are trying to use Internet as a medium to promote national volunteering in India. We own and manage a vertical called "IndiaCalls- Giving Time. Doing Good" which features on www.ICICIcommunites.org and www.Giveindia.org. This Vertical provides hundreds of Volunteering opportunities for people to choose from for Volunteering in India.

NetAid Foundation
Since early 2000, NetAid, through a service managed by the United Nations Volunteers programme, has brought Online Volunteers and organizations in developing countries together through the largest database of online volunteering opportunities anywhere in the world

Peace Brigades International Colombia Project
PBI Colombia protects threatened human rights defenders and displaced communities by maintaining teams of international observers in Colombia.

UNITeS
The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) is a global volunteer initiative, led by the UN Volunteers programme that allows volunteers from any country to give their skills and time to extend the opportunities of the digital revolution to developing countries. Volunteers under the UNITeS umbrella come from either from developing countries (the "South") or from industrialized countries (the "North"). There are also national Volunteers, i.e. those serving in their own countries. In addition, online volunteers are an integral part of the UNITeS community as well, supporting their onsite counterpart volunteers.

Volunteer Abroad
Comprehensive listing of volunteering opportunities, with links to several other sites. "GoAbroad.com was launched to fill an information void in the area of international student travel. GoAbroad.com was conceptualized to provide a one-stop information center for students wishing to travel internationally. The site was created to link prospective travelers with organizations providing international opportunities."

VSO
VSO sends skilled and experienced volunteers to work with communities in the developing world and campaigns in Britain to change attitudes towards the south.