Who we are
Serve the City is a global movement of volunteers showing kindness in personal ways to people in need. Our vision is the transformation of lives, cities, and neighbourhoods. Our dream is to involve everyone in caring for the needs of others. Everyone. Rich, poor, strong, weak, have’s, have-nots, everyone. Everyone can volunteer.
Serve the City partners with homeless shelters, refugee centres, orphanages, and other local associations, and offers the practical help and support of volunteers. We create serving opportunities that are easily accessible for the volunteer, believing that many people want to get involved but don’t know where to start. Our goal is to build a local volunteering community that is thriving, sustainable, and self-replicating.
Serve the City started in Brussels, Belgium with a surprisingly successful Big Volunteer Week in July, 2005. We had no plans for anything beyond that, but the vision spread from one city to the next and now there are Serve the City teams in cities all over the world – Amsterdam, Baltimore, Kraków, Lisbon, Kathmandu, Nairobi, Paris, Port au Prince, and many more…plus many more to come!
The International Leadership Team (ILT) works to support the movement. The STCi Movement is led by Carlton Deal (CEO) in collaboration with Alfredo Abreu (Board Chair), Dave Hahne (COO) and is composed of the Board of Directors (BoD), members of the Global Executive Team (GET) and members of the Global Operations Team (GOT).
The STCi International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) is the legal structure of the STCi Movement and governed according to a constitution, with the following purpose:
Join us! Many people doing small things together can make a big difference!
Vision, Mission, and Values
Our vision is the transformation of lives, cities, and neighbourhoods through volunteers who show kindness in personal ways to people in need.
Our mission is to send volunteers to show kindness in personal ways to people in need.
Our values are Humility, Compassion, Respect, Courage, Love and Hope.
Vision
Our vision is the transformation of lives, cities, and neighbourhoods through volunteers who show kindness in personal ways to people in need.
Mission
Our mission is to send volunteers to show kindness in personal ways to people in need.
Values
Humility Compassion Respect Courage Love Hope
The International Leadership Team
Serve the City International is composed of three teams working together to fulfill the mission and to cast the vision for Serve the City Leaders, combined this is the International Leadership Team (or ILT). The three ILT teams are the Board of Directors, The Global Executive Team, and The Global Operations Team, also known as “The BOD”, “The GET”, and “The GOT” respectively.
We want to be your CSR partner
Our vision is to connect the resources of the city with the needs of the city, and we do this through facilitating local volunteer involvement. The private sector brings with it many resources, both human and financial and can therefore play an important role in contributing to the well-being of communities anywhere. Serve the City can organize corporate volunteering events to make this connection.
We believe in local and global corporate volunteering events and would be pleased to organize one for you. But the event is at its best when it is part of a larger ongoing commitment. It would be our privilege to work within your existing Corporate Social Responsibility strategy or to help you improve or develop one, through consultations, trainings and leadership development, and ongoing connections to community needs.
