Our Volunteers
Thank you !
Our volunteers have enabled us to achieve a greater impact much faster than we ever thought possible.
Philanthropy Connections’ development and the impact we have achieved so far would not have been possible without the phenomenal support we have received from numerous volunteers.
Their expertise and their countless hours of pro-bono work have enabled us to achieve a greater impact much faster than we ever thought possible. Here are all our volunteers from the beginning of Philanthropy Connections to date.
We are deeply grateful to each and every one of them.
Annabelle Gerber - Switzerland
Annabelle has been closely involved with PCF since 2012, both as a member of the university of St. Gallen’s ‘Helping KAKO’ team and as board member of KAKO. She helped to raise funds and advised KAKO on its projects and partnerships. In the summer of 2014 she spent some time at our office in Chiang Mai to coordinate our support for KAKO.
Anneke Magendans - The Netherlands
A CSR and sustainability professional working at GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). She lives in Bangladesh and translated many of our Dutch texts into English.
Carolyn Moffatt - United Kingdom
English teacher who originated one of our scholarship projects and also edited some of our English texts.
François Rossi - French
François is a logistics expert and joined us in our Chiang Mai office in December 2013 for three months. He did research for us and wrote reports.
Jeannette Woelinga - The Netherlands
For a year Jeannette dedicated one day a week to help us by managing content for our website.
Kate Mellor - Australia
Master’s student at Stanford University in the US, Kate was involved in Philanthropy Connections from the beginning until 2014. Among many other things, in 2013 she helped with management advice, administrative support and text edits.
Leanne Noom - The Netherlands
Master’s student in Strategic and International Management (University of St. Gallen). Leanne helped PCF with the Annual Reports and business plan. She worked at the office in Chiang Mai on a policy for the ANBI, analysed the effectiveness of the educational programmes of KAKO and developed a standard to select and monitor projects.
Lucy Firth - Australia
Social and innovation economist (PhD) who worked for the UN, various Australian Governments industries and universities. In July 2012 she helped us with organisational structures and researched the legal status in Australia.
Max Stallkamp - Germany
Master’s student in Strategy and International Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. He interned with us from 1st July to 1st September 2013. He produced our annual report 2012 and made an inventory of the current issues at one our projects.
Tatiana Serikova - Russia
Russian intern from the Strategy and International Management master’s Programme at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. In August 2013, among other tasks, she produced a ‘Prezipresentation’ of Philanthropy Connections.
Tobias Oostveen - The Netherlands
A masters graduate of Science in Business Studies and volunteer in our Chiang Mai office from December 2012 to January 2013. Tobias was involved in streamlining our administration, writing project proposals and connecting to various stakeholders.
Urs Meienberger - Switzerland
Urs, who is director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, advised us on selecting and implementing a new account system; reviewed the office administration in respect of bookkeeping; developed sub-ledgers for PPE (property, plant, equipment; and created templates for project proposals and tools to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of projects.
Vargo Bawits - The Netherlands
Vargo is a TV producer and he wrote the scenario of our teaser video ‘This is who we are’ in 2013.
Victor Ong - Singapore
Master’s student in Strategy and International Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. As an intern in July 2013, he created a tailor-made accountancy system for us and produced our corporate handbook.
Cees de Bruin - The Netherlands
A relations coach who advised us on effective use of language.
Elonie Kooter - The Netherlands
Elonie was a volunteer in our office from February to July 2012. With her friend Eva, she edited our early videos and cleaned up our picture archives.
Esther van der Leeuw -
The Netherlands
As a traveling charity worker, Esther made significant progress towards reorganising our administration within a few weeks in January 2012.
Gerda van den Dool - The Netherlands
Our very first intern/volunteer. As part of her studies in Communication Management she helped us with our first steps into the world of social media. She stayed with us for six months in 2011.
Heleen Minderaa - The Netherlands
Journalist and documentary film maker, Heleen was involved in promoting Philanthropy Connections and overall support from early 2012 up to October 2013.
Melanie Naegeli - Switzerland
International Hospitality Management graduate, Melanie volunteered for us in September and October 2012, and helped with administrative tasks, proposal- and report – writing and fundraising.
Teun Melis - The Netherlands
Teun helped us in the first stages of setting up our accountancy system.
William Cao - China
A fifteen year-old Chinese volunteer who, in 2012, translated our project proposals for preschools and toilets in Cambodia into Chinese and created a PowerPoint presentation for a fundraiser that resulted in the construction of 35 toilets and the opening of three preschools.
