Mission Statement

Meaningfulness

Every project that Meaningful Volunteer undertakes must be meaningful.  What is “meaningful”?  It is anything that passes the Meaningful Test. 

Accurate records must be kept to ensure that a project continues to be meaningful.

Financial

Meaningful Volunteer is first and foremost an organization that enables volunteers to have a meaningful impact on developing communities.  It is not a charity and will not be run as such. 

MeaningfulVolunteer.org will be run like a for-profit business.  However, any profits that Meaningful Volunteer does make will be reinvested back into the communities it is trying to help in the forms of educational supplies, medical supplies and so on.

Meaningful Volunteer is 100% non-profit.

Meaningful Volunteer finances will be 100% transparent.  All financial statements and a breakdown of volunteer fees will be available on-line.

Local Investment

Meaningful Volunteer believes that people in developing countries are an untapped goldmine of talent!  As a result, Meaningful Volunteer will only employ local staff and pay them 200% of market rate.

Local folk must also invest in some way to the projects they are participants in.  Nothing in Meaningful Volunteer is free!  An investment in a project means a project is much more likely to succeed.

Sustainable Solutions

Any income generating projects that Meaningful Volunteer engages in must be self-sustaining.  Meaningful Volunteer may provide some start-up capital, but the project must self-sustain without additional financial input.

All projects must submit budgets and a business plan as a minimum.

Corruption

Corruption is a large problem in developing communities.   Meaningful Volunteer has a policy of:

No corruption means no corruption no corruption.

We will not deal with any corrupt organization and any staff member found to be accepting bribes will be summarily dismissed.