Platform of volunteer centres and organizations, Slovakia

Platform of volunteer centres and organizations, Slovakia is rated 3 out of 5 in the category nonprofit organization management. Read and write reviews about Platform of volunteer centres and organizations, Slovakia. The Platform of Volunteer Centres and Organizations, established in August 2011, is the result of activities carried out within the European Year of Volunteering 2011 and informal networking activities of volunteer centres, which started in Slovakia in 2009. The main goal of the Platform is to support the creation of environment favourable for the development of volunteering in all areas and its forms. The Platform unites volunteer centres and organizations working with volunteers in Slovakia and fulfils its aims through following activities: • Building the infrastructure of volunteering • Advocating for legal and economic support of volunteer centres and volunteer involving organizations • Enforcing financial support for volunteering • Incorporating volunteering into the legal framework that would lead toward its support • Supporting the establishment and the development of a working position of volunteer coordinators within non-governmental and public organizations/institutions • Promoting volunteering as a tool for informal education • Enforcing volunteering as a preparation tool for the labour market