Help volunteers tackle community problems

Summary

New Heights is a revolutionary program that directs volunteers to where help is needed most. Your help enables more children to read, more battered women to find shelter and more ill to find comfort.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Communities across Latin America and the Caribbean have critical needs. They have tremendous assets in the citizens who want to help their own communities but lack the tools to promote opportunities to get involved. New Heights is a unique program that enables community organizations tackling issues such as child health, poverty and gang violence, to reach potential volunteers eager to make a difference. New Heights bridges the gap between enthusiastic volunteers and those most in need of help.

How will this project solve this problem?

New Heights projects are as varied as the communities it serves. Depending on local needs, volunteers work in areas such as health, education, environment, human rights, conflict resolution, civic participation and cultural understanding.

Potential Long Term Impact

Because New Heights matches citizens with local nonprofits, volunteers see the impact of their efforts firsthand,further investing them into finding longterm solutions to their communities’ problems and promoting volunteerism and civic participation.

Project Message

I am convinced that to make a difference in the world we must begin locally in our own community and society. Volunteerism is the perfect way to give our best and create positive change all around us.
- Myrka Dellanos, Partners volunteer, honorary chair, journalist

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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