28 Aug Education Plus
Excerpted from a blog originally posted on TravelStruck by guest blogger Emily Crichton, who took a 6-week trip exploring and volunteering Central and South America....
02 Mar New Horizons
Welcome to our newly updated website! This spring we decided to try a new approach: pivoting away from coordinating every volunteer day, to instead providing travelers with the information they need to schedule directly with our vetted nonprofits. ...
01 Feb GADG Mentioned in the New York Times
Check out this mention of Give A Day Global in the New York Times! The article discusses how to plan a volunteer vacation and features Give A Day Global’s co-founder and board chair, Courtney Regan....
02 Jan Happy 2017
Happy 2017 Happy 2017! 2016 was a great year for us – we participated in a Stanford affiliated accelerator program (StartX), we worked on an amazing Social Impact project for Airbnb’s new Experiences platform, and above all we coordinated 249 volunteer days – almost twice as...
26 Jul We’ve launched!
Although we’ve been working on Give A Day Global for a few laps around the sun, we’ve officially been in beta phase…until today! Check out this press release announcing our launch....
01 Apr Crowdsourcing Global Change: Why Voluntourism Matters
[vc_separator type="normal" up="46" down="0"] Volunteers and students at a soup kitchen and enrichment program in Cancun, Mexico.When Ophelia was 18 years old, she traveled to Haiti to volunteer at an eye clinic. As a British teenager straight out of boarding school without any practical skills, her...
27 Oct 3 Volunteer Tips from Give a Day Global
[vc_separator type="normal" up="46" down="0"] Your travel choices make a difference! Volunteering abroad can be a unique off-the-beaten path travel experience and your service can make a tangible difference to local causes and communities. But not all volunteering is created equal. To find the right volunteering opportunity,...
16 Jul Love From Our Volunteers – Spring/Summer 2015
[vc_separator type="normal" up="46" down="0"]We love hearing from our volunteers about their experiences! Here are a couple of highlights from this travel season: “From the adventure in getting to Phrao by songthaew (public pickup taxi) to witnessing the positive impact of Warm Heart’s projects, I gained a...
14 Dec A Thank You Note From Our Volunteers
[vc_separator type="normal" up="46" down="0"] “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ― Maya Angelou I planned a 6 day trip to Tamarindo, Costa Rica with 3 of my best friends for my birthday. I enjoy doing community service in California where I reside, so I decided...
04 Dec Giving Thanks
[vc_separator type="normal" up="46" down="0"] http://www.ispycandy.com/ Thanksgiving may be over, but we are still feeling grateful. Last week we had two different families volunteer at our partner organization, Huellas de Pan, in Cancun, Mexico. Both women who contacted us for a day of volunteering manage travel blogs focused on...