International Association For Volunteer Effort

ConveningIn 2024:Convened a roundtable on youth volunteering in London, England to focus on the interrelationship of volunteering, employability, and sustainable livelihoods;Convened 18 members of the Global Corporate Volunteer Council in Lisbon, Portugal to discuss topics such as employee development through volunteering, climate action through volunteering, self-volunteering, and volunteering in times of war. Concurrently 15 members of the Global Network for Volunteering Leadership met to discuss techniques of impact assessment of volunteering. The two groups then met together on the second day for a forum on volunteering in humanitarian crises.

Knowledge DevelopmentIAVE organized online master classes for members of GNVL from throughout the world on corporate volunteering, the role of branding in the volunteer sector, and harnessing technology and reducing research inequality in the Global South.The second part of IAVEs research on the state of health of corporate volunteering throughout the world was published in 2023. The study drew on interviews with staff of 80 companies with operations in 175 countries and a combined workforce of over 8 million people. Part 2 explores regional issues in greater depth with essays written by members of the research team local to the region.In 2023, work was begun on research and thought leadership on the relationship of volunteering by youth to employability, well-bring, activism, and sustainable livelihoods. Each paper was paired with a webinar to stimulate discussion and collaborative thinking around each facet of the research. As a solid outcome from this work, in December 2023, IAVE announced a collaboration with the African Union on volunteer-powered pathways to youth employment, the Reskilling Revolution Africa.