The vision of Action Without Borders/Idealist.org, an international nonprofit organization, is to live in a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives, where every person who wants to help another has the ability to do so, and where no opportunities for action or collaboration are missed or wasted. International volunteerism significantly impacts this holistic vision and we as an organization pledge our strong support of global service. Through our online and on the ground programming, we will help build the capacity of volunteer-sending organizations and companies as well as connect volunteers with information, resources, and international opportunities. Also, by collaborating with fellow organizations and providing accessibility to diverse resources on international service, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org is committed to increasing the quantity, quality, and impact of global volunteerism on individual, community, and global levels.

Providing opportunities for volunteers to participate in community development, conservation and cultural exchange opportunities in Uganda that will provide learning experiences, broaden horizons and develop global perspectives.

Established in 1965, Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) is dedicated to building partnerships to empower young leaders, advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding in the Americas. AMIGOS trains high school and college-age Volunteers to be effective participants in community health, education and environmental protection projects in Latin America. Volunteers live in rural communities for up to eight weeks, working in partnership with host agencies (ex: Ministries of Health, Plan, Save the Children)to address health, education and civic engagement priorities identified by host communities. In 2007, more than 700 AMIGOS Volunteers will serve in Latin America. Through our strategic growth initiative, we plan to have about 1,000 Volunteers serving in 2011, with ongoing growth thereafter.

AngelPoints, Inc. is committed to promoting international volunteerism and to providing international volunteer opportunities to our clients. Over 100 companies employing nearly 3,000,000 employees use AngelPoints EVS to manage their volunteer programs locally, nationally and globally. AngelPoints has a far-reaching ability to work with volunteer leadership across corporate America.

Anne Arundel Medical Center is committed to providing charity care hospitalization, nursing staff, OR hours, and pharmaceutical support in Annapolis, Maryland to designated physician-volunteers donating life saving surgical expertise to medically underserved children in developing countries.

Atlas Service Corps commits to identifying mid-career nonprofit professionals from overseas to come volunteer in the U.S. to complete the circle of service. We will start in 2007 with 8-10 Fellows and grow to 300 Fellows per year in 10 years.

To date, approximately 2,300 corporate employees have participated in corporate service fellowship programs - our goal is to more than double this number to 5,000 within the next five years. Imagine the impact on business, social and international policy when most future business leaders engage in a personally and professionally transformative experience in a marginalized area of the US or a developing country.

Child Family Health International is a global family of committed professionals and students who work at the grassroots level to promote the health of the world community, through: Community Initiatives -- healthcare for underserved communities through local medical professionals and clinics; Medical Supply Recovery -- collection and distribution of salvaged medical supplies; and Global Service Learning -- medical student programs that focus on cultural competency in the health setting.

Crooked Trails is committed to educating people and the world and its people through community based tourism and service programs, community development work and education. We work in conjunction with indigenous people around the world facilitating cultural exchanges that allow visitors and hosts opportunities to share in each other's lives. We join in daily activities of work and play such as the design and construction of community centers and water and sewage systems, participating in Buddhist seminars, working in the fields during harvest or planting season, fishing and teaching in village schools. Evenings are set aside for meetings with local elders, fireside chats, music, dance, crafts and language lessons.

Cross-Cultural Solutions enthusiastically signs on to the Brookings Institute Campaign by committing to doubling the number of international volunteers we send overseas. In 2006 we will send approximately 3,275 volunteers and we commit to sending 6,550 in 2009. We believe in the importance of international volunteerism and are committed to running the highest quality programs possible.

Dalit Solidarity believes that international volunteering is an important tool in the effort to achieve world peace. In an effort to support the goal of doubling the number of international volunteers by the year 2010, Dalit Solidarity pledges to double the number of volunteers working with its program each year, for the next three years. Dalit Solidarity further pledges to work to improve the quality of its programs and to follow the Best Principles adopted by the Brookings' Initiative.

Over the next five years Earthwatch Institute is committed to engaging 25,000 volunteers in vital research, education and conservation programs worldwide in order to promote local and global action towards a sustainable environment.

The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) is a 501(c)(3) global non-profit organization founded in 2002 in Washington, D.C. FIMRC is dedicated to improving the lives of children worldwide by providing primary care and health education in medically underserved regions. While governments and large international organizations such as UNICEF and the WHO share similar goals, many communities fall through the cracks of global healthcare infrastructure and live without access to even basic vaccinations or preventative measures such as anti-malarial nets or clean drinking water. These children are especially susceptible to malnutrition, infectious diseases and parasitic and diarrheal illnesses. FIMRC seeks to provide a new line of medical defense, offering free essential medical care to children. Furthermore, FIMRC operates a global health volunteer program to send health professionals, mid-career professionals and students abroad to work in the clinics and learn more about global health disparities. FIMRC creates unique and skill-specific itinerarys to accommodate both short term and long term volunteers at four of our clinics internationally.

FSD supports the efforts of grassroots development organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia that are working to better the communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. Through our programs, we aim to raise international awareness of the economic challenges in developing countries and support cross-cultural communities in finding more effective solutions to development

We’re small enough to pay close attention to our students and, and large enough to provide unequaled support and resources to assure a rewarding international experience. We were founded in 2001, but our two co-founders have over fifty years experience in international education and exchange. We’re young enough to know what’s needed in the twenty-first century, and old enough to have learned what’s not needed. GeoVisions carefully screens partners around the globe to help prepare students for living in their host country. GeoVisions sent 1800 volunteers abroad in 2007 and has set a goal to send 5000 volunteers in 2010.

Global Volunteers is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian international human and economic development organization founded in 1984 in St. Paul, Minn. Mobilizing teams of short-term volunteers year-around to assist long-term local projects, Global Volunteers supports host communities on six continents with service programs focused on at-risk children and their families, direct work project funding and child sponsorships. Global Volunteers is in consultative status with the United Nations and works in partnership with more than 200 local organizations worldwide. Global Volunteers’ mission is to wage peace and promote justice by enabling mutual international understanding through community-driven development.

Globe Aware promotes cultural awareness and sustainability in mobilizing volunteer groups on various projects in (mostly) developing nations. We commit to increasing the number of international volunteers by double our current number in the next five years, and to add at programs in at least 3 new countries. We are also committeed to helping volunteers understand how to evaluate programs that do exist, and to ensure their safety.

To provide environmentally and economically sustainable communities, along with a constructive and an internationally aware study aboard experience.

In addition to increasing the number of international volunteers who participate in On Demand Community, improving the quality of their service, and magnifying the impact of their contributions, IBM makes the following commitments.

• Beginning in the last quarter of 2006 and through early 2007, IBM will provide 170 new translations of selected On Demand Community tools and assets, supporting our international volunteers who are contributing their time and talents working with schools and nonprofits. As 10 different languages are supported through these translations.
• IBM will provide new On Demand Community solutions to support the work of existing IBM volunteers and encourage new volunteers to participate. For example, in Spring 2007, IBM will launch a new solution entitled Workplace Readiness for Youth, which will provide volunteer teams with tools to conduct workshops for older students on resume writing, interviewing, and workplace etiquette. In late 2006/early 2007, IBM also will launch a solution called Promote Literacy, through which IBM volunteers can author online “e-books” that will be incorporated into IBM-developed software called Reading Companion, which helps children and adults learn how to read and improve their literacy skills.
• IBM countries will provide their local volunteers with opportunities that are specific to their particular needs and problems. For example, IBM South Africa will develop opportunities for employees to support HIV/AIDS education. In the Netherlands, IBM, in partnership with a local nonprofit, will host weekend schools over a 35-week period, staffed by IBM volunteers and other professionals, for students in disadvantaged areas.
• IBM MentorPlace, an online mentoring program for IBM employees and students, will reach new populations of young people in Russia, India and China. In addition, new MentorPlace programs will encourage employees to serve as mentors for students in countries other than their own to promote great cultural understanding and collaboration. For the first question below, all items checked are of equal priority.

i-to-i currently sends thousands each year to volunteer abroad with our 500 projects in 35 countries. Projects can range from community development to building, conservation to teaching. Our commitment is to not only become carbon neutral but increase the number of Americans going abroad to volunteer each year.

International Partners Cassie Stern Memorial, Inc sends volunteers from 16 years of age to live and work in rural villages in El Salvador with plans to expand to other areas of Central America. Volunteers raise money for projects, live with families in the community, work alongside community members and build lasting bonds. Most volunteers are between 16- 19 years of age. We also have a Youth Leadership Program for university age students. We send service teams of 10-12 people to one village.

The International Volunteer Programs Association is a consortium of volunteer sending organizations that stand for excellence and responsibility in the field. We commit to improving high quality standards for international volunteer programs by launching and promoting our revised best practices in January 2007. IVPA will support its members as they scale up and expand their programming over the next five years. We will also continue to increase our efforts to advocate for and raise awareness of the benefits of international volunteerism.

LanguageCorps provides future managers and professionals with a broad understanding of our interconnected world. Founded in 2003, LanguageCorps now operates in sixteen countries. We sent over 140 participants abroad in 2006, we project to add 200 in 2007. LanguageCorps is designed to: a) Educate and empower culturally responsive "citizen diplomats": Americans who appreciate cultural diversity, foster mutual respect, and encourage understanding, and b) Ensure that these individuals make real contributions to the success and well being of students around the world – and to their own homeland Our mission is based on hope for America’s prosperity and for the possibility that the world’s transitional economies will join the ranks of developed nations in a peaceful, free, and mutually beneficial manner. Unlike some other organizations, we do not seek to provide set boundaries or orders for our participants. Rather, we empower them with extensive training, interest-appropriate employment, security, and community (including global interest groups where participants from Costa Rica to Vietnam can trade thoughts on foreign policy, education, healthcare, security, and law). Our participants are expected to learn independence and decision-making, and to fully immerse themselves into their host-country’s culture.

The mission of Learning Enterprises is to expand horizons by organizing conversation-based English language classes taught by American and international volunteers. Our program benefits both the children in developing countries who take part in our classes and our volunteers who work as teachers for the summer. Our mission is guided by five principles: fostering creativity in children and adults, expanding horizons though access to the English language as means of communication, promoting understanding through cross-cultural exchange, spreading the spirit of volunteerism, and providing substantive and rewarding work experience for young people.

The mission of Medical Teams International is to demonstrate the love of Christ to people affected by disaster, conflict and poverty. We accomplish this mission in a variety of ways, including:

• Disaster: We respond to some of the most devastating and difficult disaster scenes around the world. Within 48 hours, we send volunteer medical professionals to natural and manmade disasters to care for the sick and injured.
• Development: Our volunteer teams and staff work to establish long-term solutions to international communities plagued by chronic poverty, lack of medical care and minimal educational opportunities.
• Distribution: More than $960 million in medical supplies and aid have been shipped worldwide since 1979. We partner with 240 in-country organizations in more than 100 countries to ensure that the supplies are distributed economically and securely. Here in the United States, Northwest Medical Teams annually distribute more than $1.7 million in supplies and products to a wide spectrum of social service agencies. In fiscal year 2005-06, we shipped $101 million worth of life-saving supplies.
• Domestic: Our Mobile Dental Clinic program serves more than 15,000 needy people each year by partnering with more than 200 organizations, including schools, social service agencies and churches. Professional dental volunteers treat the homeless and uninsured in 39 Pacific Northwest counties each year.

Pfizer, through its Global Health Fellows Program (GHF), addresses pressing health needs in developing countries by making our greatest resource - our people - available to support organizations that are actively involved in health care in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Pfizer selects an average of 40 colleagues a year, doctors, epidemiologists, financial analysts and others, for assignments of up to 6 months to support partner NGOs fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other public health threats. Pfizer’s focus is on sustainability thus, Global Health Fellows are selected in part for their strengths in teaching and training and their commitment to seeing their work carried on by local teams. Pfizer funds transportation and living expenses, maintains Fellows' salaries and positions during their assignments, and provides grants to help organizations leverage the work of the fellows. Having sponsored over 100 Global Health Fellows since 2002, Pfizer pledges to: 1) create a Corporate Toolkit to aide in the establishment and scaling-up of international volunteering programs; 2) support independent research into best corporate practices and aide the development of monitoring and evaluation tools; and 3) support opportunities to engage corporate and partnering organizations in the effort to scale international private-sector volunteering initiatives.

Projects Abroad sends volunteers abroad to over 20 countries to do over 100 different internships and service projects. Since being founded in 1992, we have grown to a team of 250 people around the world that sends over 3000 volunteers annually. Volunteers can go at any time, for as long as they wish. Our most popular programs include: environmental conservation, archaeology and cultural preservation, teaching English, care work in orphanages, as well as medical and nursing projects.

We are committed to supporting individuals in service both domestically and internationally. We do and will continue to support efforts that send people abroad. One effort which we are currently supporting and promoting is a gathering called Six Billion Paths to Peace: Illuminating the Ways we Serve which will take place on April 20, in Yorba Linda, CA. Our hope it to increase people's awareness about the impact of their service efforts.

Touch Africa International is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 2005 by volunteers from worldwide who participated in Rotary Club International Exchange programs, missionaries, Canada World Youth programs and international community camps organized by World Corps Kenya in collaboration with UVIKIUTA (Tanzania). Touch Africa International is concerned about poverty, particularly the lack of education and economic opportunity. Our goal is to train people to be effective business entrepreneurs, community leaders and global citizens. Four key issues of our work foundation are: • Reducing poverty . • Increasing global cooperation. • Sustainable development, equality & social justice. • Environmental conservation and protection Our Vision To see a world in which everyone from individuals to corporations and government are willing to assist their neighbors, community and the society at large by way of volunteering their skills, time and resources for the betterment of mankind. Our Mission To create a network of volunteers individual and corporate, who will able to volunteer their skills, time and resources to other organizations especially those catering for marginalized and unprivileged groups to efficiently sustain themselves and effectively interact with their donors, the government and other interested parties including the general public in order to best achieve their aims and objectives Our Activities We are involved in the placement of volunteers into various organizations that include hospitals, schools, children’s homes, community centers, forests and national parks just to name a few places. The volunteers give their support and service free of charge. The volunteers get involved in any activity that will be of benefit to the hosting organization therefore we request host organizations to be creative in the placements that they have. We also have started focus groups whose main areas of concern fall under the broad categories of environment, social concern, education, community development and health. During the coming year they shall work in collaboration with host organizations and give support to ensure the organizational growth and sustainability

Founded in 1982, Volunteers For Peace (VFP) is a non-profit membership organization that offers placement in over 3400 AFFORDARDABLE volunteer projects in more than 100 countries. We also help organize 40-60 projects in the United States each year. We exchange volunteers with our international partners, who organize the projects taking place in their own countries. Most projects have volunteers from five or more countries participating. VFP is committed to promoting International Voluntary Service (IVS) projects, historically known as International Workcamps, as an effective means of intercultural education and community service. We provide projects where people from diverse backgrounds can work together to help overcome the need, violence and environmental decay facing our planet. The projects we offer are a practical way to both prevent and resolve conflict. Through our international alliances, we work together to help communities’ meet local needs and some of the goals of the United Nation's Millennium Declaration.

World Hope International, a faith based relief and development agency, commits to increase its number of overseas volunteers to 350 by year 2010.

Youth Service America will promote and support the international volunteer community by a) encouraging and promoting youth-led service projects that connect US youth with young people from other countries during Global Youth Service Day (www.gysd.org) and year round; b) facilitating online dialogues among youth from the U.S. and other countries about effective service and volunteering; and c) supporting the international volunteer community through our outreach and dissemination vehicles including the National Service Briefing (weekly electronic newsletter to 40,000 + subscribers in the US and abroad), websites, and presentations.