Basic Organization Information
VOLUNTEER EXPEDITIONS NFP
- Also Known As:
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Volunteer Expeditions, powered by Amizade
- Physical Address:
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Pittsburgh, PA
15222
- EIN:
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26-2590812
- Web URL:
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www.volunteerexpedit...
- Blog URL:
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volunteerexpeditions...
- NTEE Category:
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L Housing, Shelter
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L20 Housing Development, Construction, Management
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P Human Services
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P61 Travelers' Aid
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S Community Improvement, Capacity Building
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S20 Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement
- Year Founded:
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2008
- Ruling Year:
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2008
- How This Organization Is Funded:
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Private donations
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Mission Statement
To create a more compassionate world by using volunteer recruitment and tourism for trips to give back to society through service learning, advocacy, social justice, education and community building, to make a positive impact and provide community service, to bring people of poverty and different backgrounds together with a common goal of helping to achieve social change rebuilding impoverished communities.
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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit
<div><div>Volunteer Expeditions has led over 38 social action community
rebuilding trips to New Orleans with over 1,000 volunteers. Volunteers
have helped build, paint, and insulate over 80 homes; served hundreds of
meals to the homeless and hungry in New Orleans; and sorted hundreds of
food packages.
Local organizations and businesses get big boosts from the
out-of-town volunteers, and the volunteer travelers go back to their homes all over the
country inspired by the city of New Orleans.
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Leadership
Ms Patricia Vile
Term:
Since
June
2008
Profile:
<div>Patricia has a Masters in Urban Policy and Planning with a healthcare
emphasis, she’s worked as a teacher, she consulted for Blue Cross/Blue
Shield, built private medical practices, and worked as the VP of a
third-party administrator for 21 years while designing nationally
implemented self-insured health plans.
<p>Patricia has always been drawn to volunteer work. She took a
three-year hiatus from healthcare to help settle Soviet refugees in
Chicago, creating networks and business opportunities for people from
all walks of life. She served as president of Art Encounter, a
non-profit organization that brings art to seniors and underserved
Chicago schoolchildren. She was the president of the Glencoe Public
Library Board of Trustees. In 2005 and 2006, Patti volunteered with
village agencies in Uganda and El Salvador. In 2011, continuing with her
passion for volunteer work, Patti joined the Board of Directors of the
Geographic Society of Chicago and became involved in Jewish/Muslim
interfaith activities.</p></div>
Leadership Statement:
We get to live, breathe, work and experience an environment of love, empathy, giving back, commitment, connections. We get to be with and experience the best part of being human — connecting with others at a level that’s hard to describe.
Highest Paid Employees & Their Compensation
Program:
Rebuilding in New Orleans
- Budget:
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$10,000
- Category:
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Community Development
- Population Served:
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
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Homeless
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Ethnic/Racial Minorities -- General
Program Description:
After
Hurricane Katrina and the broken levees flooded New Orleans in 2005, the city
as it was known to thousands of people seemed destroyed. In the years since,
New Orleans has made huge strides in recovering. But help is still needed. Six
years after the floods, 10,000 families were still without homes as a direct
effect of the storm (St. Bernard Project). You and your group can help those
affected by this disaster by building, insulating, and painting homes; serving
meals in soup kitchens; sorting donations at a food bank; and restoring the
Bayou. Our most popular destination by far, New Orleans is a beautiful city
with a rich local culture. You’ll be inspired, educated, and entertained on
your volunteer vacation to the Big Easy.
Program Long-Term Success:
By the end of 2012, Volunteer Expeditions will have brought over 1,200 volunteers to New Orleans. These volunteers have helped rebuild more than 80 houses and served hundreds of meals to the homeless and hungry.
Local organizations and businesses get big boosts from the
out-of-town volunteers, and the volunteers go back to their homes all over the
country inspired by the city of New Orleans.
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