iVolunteer’s third quarter for 2024 celebrated its 15th year of service to the Filipino volunteer sector. The origins of iVolunteer Philippines was sparked by the onset of Ondoy in September 26, 2024 when the founders wanted to volunteer but didn’t know where they could volunteer. 

During this quarter,  1486 Filipinos have participated in volunteering thru our website and corporate network. 1,446 have signed-up thru our website who contributed to 312,647 volunteer hours being shared to various communities. 25 NGOs have been actively engaging volunteers with a total of 208 volunteering opportunities.

Volunteers 1,486 (-27.74% vs Q3 2023)	Volunteer Hours 312,647 (-28.84% vs Q3 2023)	Php Donated 93,953 (-38.9% vs Q3 2023)
Active NGOs Recruiting 25 (100% vs Q2 2023)	Volunteer Events 208 (-15.45% vs Q3 2023)	Donation Campaign 17 (-43.33% vs Q2 2023)

A total of Php 76,333 were channeled to the impacted communities by Typhoon Carina, to education materials for the communities of Tulong sa Kapwa Kapatid and to the communities that are part of the iVolunTree for Christmas Campaign. The donations for Typhoon Carina were distributed to AJ Kalinga Foundation, Citizens’ Disaster Response Center, La Liga Mariquina, Project PEARLS, and The Storytelling Project. 

iVolunteer Philippines continues its volunteer education programs with several key initiatives. 

Another Start Your Adventure webinar was held on August 24 virtually for those who are interested to start their volunteering journey with 100 interested people attending. 

A simultaneous Volunteer Community Meet-ups were held in Manila and Davao last September 21 which aims to provide an opportunity for volunteers to meet like-minded people with the aim that they find a volunteer support system as part of their journey. This was also part of iVolunteer’s 15th year celebration as the internal team volunteered together with two of iVolunteer’s valued partners – Project PEARLS in Manila and Field of Dreams in Davao. 

Key Media and First Focus also partnered with iVolunteer to provide their employees opportunities to volunteer on August 31 and September 28, respectively. A total of 40 volunteers from both corporations went to Bocaue, Bulacan. They facilitated the soup kitchen and brain booster activity for the kids as they learned to draw the Philippine flag in celebration of Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month).

We also had another virtual Partners Community Meet-up on September 14. 17 individual from 12 NGOs attended this session to learn and share future programs and activities from different NGOs enabling potential synergies and collaborations. 

Learning opportunities for the volunteer leaders from our NGO partners also continues with the Bayani Learning Series. On July 20, we talked about Effective Fundraising aiming to help them in getting more resources for their programs. It was attended by 35 representatives from 25 of our partner NGOs. 

On July 2, iVolunteer attended Lighthouse Day, a gathering of youth leaders around Davao City to meet and learn about active citizenship. 

We also joined the National Youth Volunteers Coalition on August 12  in their celebrations of the International Youth Day, ASEAN Day, and Linggo ng Kabataan (Youth Week). Check the full online conversation here. 

Our annual campaign to support the Christmas wishes of our partner communities – iVolunTree for Christmas has been launched. You can start to donate to the advocacies you support by visiting www.ivolunteer.com.ph/ivoluntree. 

The search for outstanding volunteer role models a.k.a. iVolunteer Champions is also on-going. The nomination has been concluded and the new batch of iVolunteer Champions for 2024 will be announced on December 7.

iVolunteer Philippines is also present with our key partner’s anniversary and celebrations – Project PEARLS and PHINMA Corporation. 

Volunteer now for the remainder of 2024 by visiting www.ivolunteer.com.ph.