The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development. Your nonprofit, NGO, charity, or other community organization needs to start planning NOW on how to leverage the year.

I’ve created a IYV2026 resource on my site that notes the origins of the year, highlights the accomplishments and resources of the first International Year of Volunteers in 2001, and links to the growing number of official resources. I hope it can be used both to help organizations prepare for IYV2026 and to compare resources now and then, to see how far we’ve come and how much more we need to do.

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