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.
Annig Jacobs - The Netherlands
Annig is a Dutch copywriter living in Vietnam. She helps with translating and editing texts for our newsletters, reports and website.
Arno Smit - The Netherlands
Concepts and copy writer from the Netherlands who edited many of our Dutch texts.
Bob German- The United States
Bob assisted Sallo and the team with the management side of the organisation. Bob advised and
worked together with the team on goal setting, leadership skills and strategic planning. Thanks to Bobs rich background in business, a three-year Strategic Plan for the organisation was created and implemented.
Anouk Aerdts - The Netherlands
Occupational Therapist from the Netherlands who gives advice on this subject in various projects.
Charlotte van Voorst - The Netherlands
A communications consultant who helps us with text edits and advice on Social Media.
Charmaine de Jongh - Curaçao
Volunteering since 2013, Charmaine played a key role in completing our previous website in English,
produced project proposals and reports, and continued to support us, in many ways, from the
Netherlands.
Eva van Dijk - The Netherlands
Eva edited videos from ‘old’ footage and finished many other tasks with her friend Elonie. In 2015 and 2016 she presented our KAKO toilet project at the Jij de Baas entrepreneurial event held for children in primary school in the Netherlands.
Fran German - The United States
Fran worked with our team members on the Communications part of the organisation. She helped with proofreading and content creation for our newsletters, reports, and new website.
Gideon Polak - The Netherlands
Nephew of Philanthropy Connections’ founder Sallo. Gideon was a long-term volunteer for one of our partners in Thailand in 2012, and supported Philanthropy Connections during his free time. In 2015 he helped us with the school project ‘Jij de Baas’ in the Netherlands whereby students earn money for charity organisations.
Jen Meckhayai - Thailand
Jen was involved in organising our administration processes, IT office setup, implemented a new server
system, supported our Project Coordinator, modified our Due Diligence process (procedure when
selecting a project) and accounting.
Jo Lynn Tan - Malaysia
Jo interviewed our team for her “Behind the scenes” columns on Facebook and provided the pictures. She organised our media library and developed a new digital folder system.
Jo Malcolm - United Kingdom
Jo, university English teacher helped out with proof reading some of our material.
Lani Hollander - The United States
A non-profit manager based out of Chiang Mai. She assisted our Communications Coordinator with
proofreading and editing texts and documents.
Maartje Sak - The Netherlands
Maartje is a graphic designer and helps us with our branding and marketing materials.
Massimo Marletto - Italy
Massimo is an entrepreneur and promotes our work and raises funds for one of our projects by placing
tailor-made donation boxes in his shop in Moneglia and, successfully, asking his friends to do the same
in their businesses.
Michelle Emmel - The Netherlands
Michelle produced project proposals and content for the website. She assisted with fund raising and set up a partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation United States, which enables American sponsors to make tax efficient donations to us.
Naoko Osaki - Japan
Naoko started to support us in June 2013. She focused on establishing connections with potential
sponsors from Japan.
Sandra Schimmenti - Italy
Together with her friend Massimo, Sandra promotes our work and raises funds for one of our projects
by placing tailor-made donation boxes in their shop in Moneglia and asking their friends to do the
same in their businesses.
Samuel van Oostveen - The Netherlands
Samuel offered IT support to our office and assisted our web developer with the coding and setup of the online donation tool on our website.
