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06/23/2026

Just over a month since we launched the Global Action Mapping Platform, and the map is filling up!

When we opened the platform in May, the hope was simple: give people a place to show what volunteering looks like in their part of the world. They have. There are now more than 130 actions on the map from over 40 countries, spanning all three areas of the Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering: Recognition, Support, and Safeguarding.

A few that stood out to us:

🇮🇳 In India, Bhumi volunteers ran a sandwich drive during Daan Utsav, the Festival of Giving.

🇵🇰 In Pakistan, the Volunteer Force Against Hepatitis held medical camps for communities hit by last year's floods.

🇦🇺 In Australia, Volunteering Australia published its National Standards for Volunteer Involvement.

🇰🇷 In South Korea, the Korea Volunteer Center helped revise the national Framework Act on Volunteering.

These sit alongside commitments from nonprofits, companies, governments, universities, and individual volunteers. Together they show the range of what is happening during this International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development, from local drives to national policy.

The map is open, and there is room for yours. Explore what others are doing and add your own action at action.iave.org.

06/03/2026

Today we celebrated Volunteers' Week in Northern Ireland with Volunteer Now!

Denise Hayward, CEO of Volunteer Now, aGNVL member, and Jenny Williams, Chief Executive of Habitat for Humanity Ireland, are backing the Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering and the IAVE Global Action Mapping Platform.

Add your action to the map: action.iave.org

05/28/2026

What does volunteering look like in 2026?
It looks like this.
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05/28/2026

On our Global Action Platform, there's an action submitted by a small women's organization in Tchonvi village, Benin. The work: a one-day gathering on menstrual hygiene that doubled as a peace dialogue during the election period. About a hundred women and girls turned up. The objective initially was twenty-eight.

There's also a national policy review underway in Kenya that 4,000 volunteers helped shape, opening the door for government departments to allocate budget to volunteerism for the first time.

And in between: bird strike prevention in South Korea. A women's center being built in Senegal. A bicycle program in Chungcheongnam-do linking carbon neutrality to community recovery. A first-aid brigade trained along a dangerous stretch of highway in Bassila, Benin. A humanitarian concert in Kolašin to help pay for a student named Lana's treatment.

This is what IVY 2026 actually looks like.

The platform is our attempt to make that visible – not as a showcase, but as a record. If you're working on something this year, anywhere on the spectrum from a single workshop to a national policy review, we'd like it on the map.

Get started today at action.iave.org

05/18/2026

Last Tuesday, IAVE launched the Global Action Mapping Platform, a new global map that brings the world's volunteering efforts together in one place, aligned to the commitments of the Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering: Recognition, Support, and Safeguarding.

The Call to Action was shaped by this global community, and the platform is how we track our collective progress against it. Our shared goal is one million data points by 2030.

Join a live demo this week to see the platform in action and add your work to the map.

Tuesday, May 19, 7:00 AM EDT → bit.ly/ctademo1
Wednesday, May 20, 7:00 PM EDT → bit.ly/ctademo2
Thursday, May 21, 12:00 PM EDT → bit.ly/ctademo3

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05/14/2026

There is an enormous amount of work happening globally to recognize, support, and safeguard volunteers. Most of it goes unseen.

The Call to Action Global Mapping Platform was developed to change that. It's a living, public map of what organizations worldwide are actually doing in response to the Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering. The goal is simple: make the invisible visible, and show just how much is already happening around the world.

Add your organization's action today at https://action.iave.org

862 million people volunteer each month. Join IAVE's Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering to ensure volunteering is recognized, supported and protected

05/12/2026

🌍 It's live!

The IAVE Global Action Platform is now open at action.iave.org — a public map of real actions being taken around the world to recognize, support, and safeguard volunteers.

Not intentions, but ACTIONS. And anyone can add theirs.

If your organization is doing something that benefits volunteers, we want it on the map. It takes about 10 minutes to submit.

IVY 2026 is the moment volunteering gets the global spotlight it has always deserved. This is how we show what that looks like on the ground.

Get started today at action.iave.org

05/06/2026

We are delighted to share that Wendy Osborne, IAVE's Senior Consultant, and Sanda Rakocevic, Europe Regional Representative on the IAVE Board, will be presenting at an upcoming webinar, "From Insight to Action: Shaping the Future of Volunteering Worldwide", co-hosted by Points of Light and IAVE.

As the world marks the United Nations International Volunteer Year in 2026, this session will explore what the future of volunteering requires and how leaders across sectors can help shape it. The conversation draws on our Call to Action for the Future of Volunteering to examine key global trends and practical strategies for building more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable volunteer ecosystems.

Register here to join us on May 14th at 10am ET: https://pointsoflight.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cfZ7weq2RSCxXRmfMxpuew #/registration

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05/06/2026

We are pleased to welcome Christoph Selig, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship at DHL Group, to the IAVE Board of Directors.

Christoph brings nearly 30 years of experience across politics, business, and civil society. He has led DHL's global corporate citizenship portfolio since 2020, and serves on the boards of the DHL UK Foundation, Save the Children Germany e.V., and We Help Each Other e.V. In 2024 and 2025, he was part of the German delegation to the UN High-Level Political Forum.

Christoph recently hosted our Global Corporate Volunteer Council meeting in Bonn, convening nearly 15 companies.

His expertise in corporate social impact and global partnerships will be a valuable addition to our Board. Please join us in welcoming him!