A person who contributes his/her skill, time and experience, without any monetary benefit, for the well-being of the community and society, and in doing so, helps influence positive social change.

Corporate Volunteering

Joining Hands aims to get the corporate sector involved in contributing to the work of the development sector, by setting up volunteering opportunities for corporate staff.

Makes Corporate Philanthropy more effective.
Gives your company an edge over others in recruiting and retaining employees because you give them an opportunity to feel empowered when they contribute to social change.
Motivates employees to greater commitment and facilitates team spirit.
Benefits the corporate as employees become adept at working in varied environments enhancing their ability to provide solutions.

Our Processes

Our well structured processes ensure that you are participating in a program designed to deliver optimum results.
'Matching' of the volunteer’s ability / skill / talent with that of the needs of a particular NGO enhances the effectiveness of the volunteer effort
Our background search of the NGO enables us to give you assurance of the credibility of the NGO and its work
Our volunteering-specific training sensitizes the volunteer to the needs of working effectively in the developmental sector
The mentoring role we will play in supervising /guiding the volunteer effort ensures that the volunteer always has access to a feed-back facility
Our performance appraisal mechanism enables us to report back to the corporate/Individual on the volunteer effort and its impact on achieving the objectives of the NGO.

Contribute your skills to help people live with dignity through Sustainable Livelihood programs: You could help formulate livelihood projects with sound business plans that would help in the economic development of communities.

Help Capacity Building : You can provide support to the organization by providing training on issues which may include proposal writing or documentation or create effective office policies and accounting systems that will strengthen the organization.

Utilize your Professional Skills to empower people : Engineers, Doctors, Teachers, Psychologists, Architects, and others with professional qualifications can utilize their skills directly with communities or at the organizational level.

Develop Awareness Campaigns to make the world care : You could help in creating public education material dealing with varied issues related to women, children, senior citizens, environment etc.

Give Creative Inputs to help positive change : You can creatively design programs that will enhance the skills of the community through skill building workshops on photography, painting, writing , designing products etc

Bring color to someone’s life by Volunteering Directly : You can give time directly to the community through various activities like reading the news paper for senior citizens; story telling to children; art/craft, theater or music with women or children and adult education.

After reading our Policies, Procedures and Terms & Conditions, an application has to be filled and submitted. This would be followed by a screening and selection process.

The Policies, Procedures and Code of Conduct are basically to guide you on how to volunteer with us. The guidelines are necessary to assist you and us in our ongoing relationship.