VolunteerNow helps people find awesome volunteering opportunities. It was founded in 2012 by Abhishek Marla and Utkarsh Gupta. It is unique online portal that connects NGO’s and Corporates to various volunteering opportunities. It is also an established medium for CSR campaigns and initiatives across several countries in South-East Asia and India.
VolunteerNow began with a problem we faced ourselves. We, like may of our friends, wanted to volunteer and do good for our communities, our city, our country and our sweet little planet; but we didn’t know where to start.
We wanted to volunteer but couldn’t find anything that matched our interests, our skills, our locality or our busy time schedules.We discovered the problem at the organisation end as well, with credible organisations not being able to tap the enormous potential of the youth of the country.
We started with a small team of 5 and manually matched volunteers with Non-profits, corporate organisations, events and all kinds of awesome volunteering experiences. Since then we have engaged over 2 Lac volunteers and parallel-y built a recommendation engine that matches volunteers with volunteering opportunities. What better use of technology than to create value in people’s lives, right?
We truly believe in the learning experience of volunteering, and we ask students, professionals and everyone else to VolunteerNow.
VolunteerNow is currently expanding it’s operations within South-East Asia where currently it’s being Incubated by DBS Bank and HUB Singapore in the PACT Incubator program. It is carrying this movement forward in Singapore by helping corporations enhance their employee engagement programs through social awareness campaigns in the form of volunteering.