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'''Global Volunteers ''' established in 1984, is |
'''Global Volunteers ''' established in 1984, is a [[nonprofit organization]] based in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]]. Global Volunteers mobilizes short-term volunteers on direct community service projects worldwide through volunteer vacations. Global Volunteers is one of a few non-sectarian, nonprofit, international volunteer organizations to hold [[Consultative_Status#Special|special consultative status]] with the [[UN]].<ref>{{cite web|title=NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC | url=http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/pdf/INF_List.pdf |publisher=[[United Nations]] | date = [[2005-07-25]] | page=22 | accessdate=2006-12-01}}</ref> |
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According to an interview in People magazine, Global Volunteers was founded by a husband and wife team, Bud Philbrook and Michele Gran on the basis that such individual cross cultural experiences are "the foundation for peace-building relationships, one person at a time.”<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Kim |last=Hubbard |coauthor=Margaret Nelson |title=Guiding Lights |publisher=[[People magazine]] |url=http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/2001People.PDF |date=2001 |accessdate=2006-12-01}} <small>convenience link from Global Volunteers website.</small></ref> |
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Global Volunteers has been featured on Oprah, CNN, the NBC Today Show, ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, and hundreds more regional and national news outlets. |
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Global Volunteers takes on many types of projects and ensures benefit to the communities the projects serve by consistently bringing back volunteers time after time. <ref>{{cite news|first=Adam last=Cohen |title= Editorial Observer; Lending a Hand in an African Village (Don't Mind the Goats) |url=http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F40A12F83E5A0C728CDDA10894DB404482 |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=[[2003-08-01]]| accessdate=2006-12-01}} <small>Convenience link. Subscription or fee required.</small></ref> |
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Volunteer work projects include teaching conversational English, assisting with labor and other infrastructure projects, providing healthcare assistance, and nurturing children in a variety of settings including orphanages and homes for disabled children. Each team member pays a tax-deductible service program fee ranging from $750 to $2,595 which provides direct finacial assistance to the host community and covers the volunteer's on-site costs, such as food, lodging, ground transportation, etc. Volunteers range in age from minors traveling with parents to adults in their 90's. |
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Global Volunteers' philosophy of service is founded on the belief that individuals can wage peace personally through direct person-to-person service on human and economic development projects. Mutual international understanding and respect is cultivated in this manner. Examples are caring for toddlers in a Romanian "failure-to-thrive" hospital ward during the country's evolution toward full membership in the EU. Other examples are working in partnership with Aboriginal communities and teaching conversational English to impoverished children in a Chinese village. Working together, local people and volunteers can overcome racial and ethnic stereotypes leading toward intolerance and conflict. |
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==References== |
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In addition to year-around volunteer and financial assistance, Global Volunteers also supports developing communities through child and classroom sponsorships, through which donors can provide basic living and educational necessities to needy children. |
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Global Volunteers employs Country Managers from the host country and local consultants to ensure that volunteers are fully engaged in development work which serves the overall community needs. |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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Global Volunteers established in 1984, is a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Global Volunteers mobilizes short-term volunteers on direct community service projects worldwide through volunteer vacations. Global Volunteers is one of a few non-sectarian, nonprofit, international volunteer organizations to hold special consultative status with the UN.[1]
According to an interview in People magazine, Global Volunteers was founded by a husband and wife team, Bud Philbrook and Michele Gran on the basis that such individual cross cultural experiences are "the foundation for peace-building relationships, one person at a time.”[2]
Global Volunteers takes on many types of projects and ensures benefit to the communities the projects serve by consistently bringing back volunteers time after time. [3]
References
- ^ "NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC" (PDF). United Nations. 2005-07-25. p. 22. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Hubbard, Kim (2001). "Guiding Lights" (PDF). People magazine. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) convenience link from Global Volunteers website. - ^ "Editorial Observer; Lending a Hand in an African Village (Don't Mind the Goats)". New York Times. 2003-08-01. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
{{cite news}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help) Convenience link. Subscription or fee required.