Volunteer Resource Organizations

Steve, Thank you for the list it will help me in a project I am working on. By the way, would not AVA perfer to be located under the international grouping?

This is the curse of classification. We put groups into the geographically categories so they could be easily located, not because of any judgment about what they are. This is why you'll find the illogical division of the US, Canada and the UK by country, not continent - they each had a lot of home-grown organizations that we wanted people in each country to be able to locate easily. AVA started in the US, has its headquarters here, and has the vast majority of its membership in the US, as well as most of its conferences - so it ended up in the US category. While AVA's membership is currently mostly from the US and Canada, they are attempting mightily to expand that - and running into a lot of the same problems as e-Volunteerism when it comes to language and product. Theoretically, about half the organizations listed could logically argue that they have some portion of their membership from international sources. To get into the "international" category, however, we tried to ensure that the organization had both membership and services (such as the location of conferences and meetings) in more than one (or in AVA's case, two) countries - and preferably had global activity as a matter of course. Check back in five years and I suspect that AVA will have gracefully made that transition, as witnessed by the conferences in Asia that are beginning to occur.