This is not pre-determined, because IBM Volunteers is designed to equip IBMers to make volunteering their own, applying their professional skills to local needs in support of their communities' schools and not-for-profit organizations.

IBM Volunteers provides support through Service Leader training and online tools available to plan and manage opportunities - whether single-day events or ongoing engagements. Its existing library of volunteer Activity Kits can provide the basis for service opportunities or inspire new ones. Our goal is to help create options for anyone, anywhere who wants to be involved, and IBM Volunteers provides an established platform for making this happen.

Here are two examples of how service opportunities might work:

A Service Leader initiates an opportunity related to water quality. The local Service Council builds on this by engaging additional community organizations and a government agency that have compatible missions. The engagement spans several months, relying on IBM volunteers to organize community meetings and plan cleanup activities in local waterways. It culminates when 300 IBMers participate in related activities. Other local IBMers undertake unrelated projects that day, individually and in teams, and all report their community service via IBM Volunteers. That evening, IBM and its partner agencies hold a celebration to thank volunteers and share the accomplishments with local news media.
Country X team of IBMers works with a regional partner to identify and develop a replicable opportunity that can accommodate thousands of IBM participants - approximately 100 one-day, hands-on Science Days throughout the region, for students ages 10-14. One team member works with the partner and its affiliates to plan the opportunities, while others work with Service Leaders inside IBM to coordinate the volunteers. The volunteers use Activity Kits to lead demonstrations and activities.

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