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| Get Involved/Be a Volunteer| Register your skills and preferences on these volunteer databases |
 ActNow, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | ActNow is an internet based matching service designed to foster volunteering and community involvement with young people. actnow.com.au offers online matching of volunteer opportunities, online information, profiles of what volunteers are doing and links to the community. | | Author | Community Organisation - The Inspire Foundation |
| Australian Business Volunteers (ABV) [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | ABV is an overseas development agency that exists to help alleviate poverty in developing countries and create sustainable development. We do this, not by offering these countries money, but by offering the work skills and experience of mature Australian men and women who are experts in their various fields. | | Author | Community Organisation - Australian Business Volunteers |
| Australian Volunteers International [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Australian Volunteers International (AVI) recruits volunteers to share skills and build relationships with people of developing communities. They assist partner organisations to reduce poverty, promote human rights and gender equality, protect the environment, provide health and education services, and fight HIV/AIDS. | | Author | Community Organisation - Australian Volunteers International |
| Becoming a CIC volunteer in Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "At our Community Information Centres (CICs), volunteers make a vital contribution to the community. At CIVic, we provide a number of training programs for community information workers. If you are interested in attending the training courses and becoming a volunteer in one of our CICs, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator of your local CIC." | | Author | Community Organisation - Community Information Victoria |
| Clean up Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | This simple idea has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia Day.
More than seven million Australians have now volunteered their time since 1989 to help make a difference to their own local environment. | | Author | Community Organisation - Clean up Australia |
| Conservation Volunteers Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Conservation Volunteers involves the community in conservation projects in urban, regional and remote Australia. It also manages Green Corps and manages community participation in a number of major conservation events including Clean Up Australia Day (Victoria) and National Tree Day. Conservation Volunteers has a highly successful volunteer recruitment strategy that includes international travel agents, schools, youth and environmental networks and volunteer centres. | | Author | Community Organisation - Conservation Volunteers Australia |
| Cross-Cultural Solutions [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Cross-Cultural Solutions is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1995. CCS has been operating international volunteer programs for over 10 years, and has more than 10,000 alumni who have traveled to countries around the world.
As an international volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions, you're making a meaningful contribution, working side-by-side with local people and sharing in the goals of a community that warmly welcomes you. You're experiencing another culture like never before and really getting to know its people. | | Author | Community Organisation - Cross-Cultural Solutions | | Country | United States and United Kingdom |
| Golden Gurus [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Golden Gurus will encourage skilled mature age people who are retired, semi-retired or not working full time to share their skills and experience as mentors for community organisations and small businesses. | | Author | Australian Government - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations |
| GoVolunteer [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | GoVolunteer is an initiative of Volunteering Australia. GoVolunteer makes it easy to find suitable opportunities with a wide range of not-for-profit organisations. GoVolunteer also provides FREE internet advertising for not-for-profit community organisations looking for volunteers. | | Author | Community Organisation - Volunteering Australia |
| Green Corps [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Green Corps – Young Australians for the Environment – is an Australian Government youth development and environmental training programme for young people aged between 17 and 20 years. Green Corps provides young people with the opportunity to volunteer their time and effort to conserve, preserve and restore Australia's natural environment and cultural heritage. | | Author | Australian Government -
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
| Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) is an independent, not-for-profit company that offers support to Indigenous communities to pursue their community development goals in their own way. ICV matches skilled volunteers with approved short to medium term projects. Communities and organisations choose the most suitable volunteer for their project. | | Author | Community Organisation - Indigenous Community Volunteers |
| Inspire Foundation [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Inspire Foundation is an Internet-based foundation that inspires young people to help themselves, get involved and get online. They do this through a series of projects that help young people get through tough times, provide opportunities for young people to volunteer and get involved in their communities, and ensure access to the net for young people who have never had access before. | | Author | Community Organisation - The Inspire Foundation |
| Junior Chamber NSW (JCINSW) [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Tens of thousands of JC projects are conducted each year in more than 9,000 communities, all of which are designed to have a positive societal and sustainable impact on that community.The community area of opportunity allows members to work in their local community and gain skills through the "learn by doing" method of training. Local members survey the needs of the community and design a specific project to cater for that need. | | Author | Community Organisation - Junior Chamber International, NSW |
| St John - Volunteers, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | When a person decides to become a volunteer for St John, there are a variety of pathways and programs that they can be part of in the organisation. Each of these provide genuine opportunities for people to help support their community - from sewing dolls and neo-natal wear through to providing communications for emergency service teams. | | Author | Community Organisation - St John Ambulance Victoria |
| Volunteer Match [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Volunteer Match is a specialised service matching Skilled Professional Volunteers and Not for Profit organisations. If you are a skilled professional and want to volunteer, you can search and apply for opportunities. If you are a representative from a Not for Profit organisation, you can post your need for skilled professional volunteers. | | Author | Community Organisation - Pro Bono Australia |
| Volunteering ACT [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Volunteering of ACT Inc. is committed to supporting the concept of volunteering in the ACT community. This is done through utilising the skills and goodwill of individuals to encourage and sustain community involvement and development, simultaneously enabling the personal growth and development of those individuals." | | Author | Community Organisation - Volunteering ACT |
| Volunteering in Manningham (ViM), Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Four agencies: Doncare, Manningham Centre Association, Manningham Community Health Services and the Migrant Information Service formed a Consortium in 2005. ViM is a way of:
• coordinating all recruitment, training, placement of and support for volunteers working in community agencies in the municipality
• maximising the benefits and quality of volunteering for both volunteers and the agencies into which volunteers are placed. | | Author | Community Organisation - Volunteering in Manningham |
| Volunteering SA & NT [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Volunteering SA Inc. is the peak body representing the volunteer movement in South Australia. They provide a range of services to individuals in the community who are interested in volunteering and to organisations who involve volunteers. | | Author | Peak Body - Volunteering SA Inc |
| Volunteering Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Volunteering Victoria Inc. is the peak body representing the volunteer movement in Victoria. They provide a range of services to individuals in the community who are interested in volunteering and to organisations who involve volunteers. | | Author | Community Organisation - Volunteering Victoria |
| Youth Tree, Western Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Youth Tree is a youth-run initiative based in Perth, Western Australia. We use creativity and fun to involve more young people in volunteering and active citizenship. We're working towards a world where volunteering is as mainstream as cheeseburgers and breathing. | | Author | Community Organisation - Youth Tree |
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