Volunteer Travel Blog

Why Participate in Volunteer Travel?

volunteer@rezhub.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:55:00 GMT

There are many reasons to give of your time and effort on your next trip. But it usually not the serivce that you provide that has the greatest impact: it is the effect it has on you.

A Volunteer Travel Program

volunteer@rezhub.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:50:00 GMT

The Volunteer Travel Hub by RezHub.com is a simple way to enjoy a volunteer vacation, without having to devote your entire holiday and budget to the charity. RezHub.com's volunteer travel program is simple: use a small portion of your upcoming vacation to volunteer in the city to which you are traveling.

So, if you are traveling to San Francisco, use the Volunteer Match search form to look for Volunteer Opportunities in San Francisco during your time there. You might find an opportunity to spend a day working with the local sea lions!

Volunteer Vacations are Rewarding

volunteer@rezhub.com — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:05:00 GMT

Taking a yearly vacation has become almost a right of the American worker, so for these workers, it can be a difficult task to convince them that they should be volunteering on their vacation.

The most common objections to volunteering on vacation is that travelers do not want to give up their entire hard earned vacation time to volunteer activities or they cannot afford to pay to volunteer. The Volunteer Travel Hub by RezHub.com has a solution for both: Bite-Sized Volunteer Opportunities. With Bite-Sized volunteering, travelers are only committing a day or a portion of a day of their vacation to volunteer activities (unless they would like to commit more). And, most of these opportunities do not require a financial commitment, just in terms of time.

RezHub.com Asks Travelers To Take One Day To Change The World

volunteer@rezhub.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:43:00 GMT

Voluntourism trips or volunteer vacations are often related to extended stays in remote destinations, wearing hefty price tags. With such high barriers surrounding these trips, many travelers consider volunteer vacations simply out of reach. In an effort to make voluntourism available to everyone traveling within the United States, RezHub.com has launched the Volunteer Travel Hub.

The Volunteer Travel Hub is a place where travelers can find free, short-term volunteer opportunities across the country. These “bite-sized” volunteer opportunities can be as short as a few hours, and are available in over 25 interest areas to help people reconnect with the issues they’re passionate about. The Volunteer Travel Hub is powered by VolunteerMatch, the Web’s leading volunteer matching network with over 58,000 participating organizations.

Since its launch last September RezHub.com has been on a mission to help customers feel good about travel. The newest addition to the RezHub family, the Volunteer Travel Hub, asks “What better way to feel good about travel than to get involved with something that inspires you?”

The Volunteer Travel Hub website offers travelers the benefits of a volunteer vacation without the usual extremes involved. Their motto, “It Takes One Day to Change the World,” serves as both an inspiration and a challenge to travelers. “In the spirit of our Green Travel Hub, we created the site to show people that it’s the small changes that really add up,” explains Melissa Evans, marketing director for RezHub.com. “If just a fraction of the millions of people traveling in the United States each year spent one day of their vacation volunteering, what a difference we could make.”

The bite-sized volunteer opportunities are intended to be combined with leisure vacations, business trips or any other travel arrangements. While discovering and participating in the bite-sized volunteer opportunities is free, the travel arrangements surrounding them are the responsibility of the traveler. Simply booking a trip at the Volunteer Travel Hub will help make a difference: RezHub.com will donate 20% of the profits from every trip booked at the Volunteer Travel Hub directly to VolunteerMatch to help good people and good causes to connect.

Please consider the environment before printing this press release.

About VolunteerMatch: VolunteerMatch is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. Its award-winning online service, located at www.volunteermatch.org, makes it easy to find local volunteer opportunities or recruit qualified volunteers. The VolunteerMatch network regularly welcomes more than 125,000 visitors each week and has become the preferred volunteer matching Web service for tens of thousands of participating nonprofits across the country and #1 search result for “volunteer” on Google and Yahoo!. The organization is committed to building world-class Internet applications that bring our communities closer together, expand the capacity of civil society, and encourage a culture of individual empowerment and participation.

What is Bite-Sized Volunteer Travel?

volunteer@rezhub.com — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:42:00 GMT

If you’ve ever spent any time looking into volunteer travel or voluntolurism, you’ve probably found that volunteer vacations usually involve a lot of money and a lot of time. The experience of a volunteer vacations is surely priceless but unfortunately, not all of us are able to take the time from work or the money from savings to actually go and lend a hand. But just because we can’t spend 3 weeks and 3 grand to go over to Africa and help rebuild a village, it doesn’t mean we can’t make a difference as a voluntourist! We’ve introduced bite-sized volunteer travel, one day volunteer opportunities right here in the US that are FREE to participate in! We partnered with VolunteerMatch to show the world that there are volunteer opportunities all across THIS country that are available to anyone, regardless of the amount of time or money they have to give during their trip.

In the spirit of our Green Travel Hub, we want people to know that you don’t have to go to extremes to make a difference and every little bit really does add up. Imagine the billion people who travel the world each year spending just one day of their vacation volunteering! It truly does take just one day to change the world.

Bite-sized volunteer opportunities are available in categories ranging from politics to civil rights to the homeless to helping animals. What better time to reconnect with something you are passionate about than while you’re on vacation? Vacations are one of the only times that we actually have free time that we can spend doing something we love. Volunteering is a way to bond with your family, plan a day of your trip, have fun, learn, and give back. Check out our Volunteer Opportunity Search to start planning your day as a Voluntourist.

Some Bite-Sized Ideas...

Spend 3 Hours Helping the Hope Foundation for the Homeless at a fundraiser.

Spend a day walking shelter dogs at the Orange County Animal Services.

Help out in many areas at the Childerens Art Festival.

Spend a day at a senior center talking with the elderly.

Read to a class of childeren.

Watch Go Live Give

volunteer@rezhub.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:36:00 GMT

Go Live Give is a green travel show that encourages a healthy lifestyle of eco-friendly vacationing, voluntourism and social responsibility. This original concept for Go Live Give originated out of the dedicated work of Maria Warman (host) and Kim Rowe (producer), two passionate individuals who share a love for travel, healthy living and giving back.

Welcome Everyone

volunteer@rezhub.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Welcome to the Volunteer Travel Hub. We're here to show you that everyone can make a difference, and you don't have to spend 3 weeks in an African jungle to take a volunteer vacation!