Encore Service Corps International (Encore) is a non-profit volunteer service organization comprised of nearly 2,000 skilled professionals. Encore Volunteers are former Peace Corps Volunteers, Peace Corps staff, and others with similar overseas development experience. With its partners, Encore designs organizational capacity building projects to meet mutually agreed upon, measurable goals, and recruits Encore Volunteers with the appropriate skills, experience and training to achieve them. Encore Volunteers may be deployed individually for 1-9 months, or in teams, and in stages, for the life of the project. Encore Volunteers have provided over 15,000 hours of expertise to NGOs in Peru, Armenia, India, Indonesia, Swaziland, Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.

The typical Encore Volunteer:

• Has 20-25 years of experience in the requested area of expertise
• Considers their volunteer assignment a full-time job
• Has extensive cross-cultural experience
• Understands and respects confidentiality
• Works well independently, or as a team member
• Thrives on challenge
• Is committed to service
• Can be on assignment in as little as 6-8 weeks

TYPES OF PROJECTS (SELECTED LIST)

• Training programs for teachers or health care personnel
• Business development programs for indigenous entrepreneurs
• AIDS/HIV education programs
• Affordable housing construction projects
• Organizational development programs for non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• Computer training courses for previously unskilled workers
• Agricultural demonstration projects
• Legal aid services for refugees

PRIMARY PARTNERS

• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with programs in developing nations
• Foundations with an international focus
• Corporations with a presence in developing countries
• International multi-lateral organizations
• Public sector organizations throughout the developing world

WHY NOW?

Social needs continue to expand, and dedicated people with specific expertise are always in short supply. Encore volunteers collectively possess a wide variety of skills and experience: During the years following their Peace Corps service, they have become health professionals, lawyers, teachers, accountants, entrepreneurs, engineers, architects, computer technicians, social workers and experts in many other fields. These men and women still want to make a difference - and are searching for practical ways to do so.

PROJECT HISTORY

• Ghana—temporary nursing faculty and trainers for Valley View University; 
• Kenya—faculty/trainers for Moi University; land trust experts for ILRI; Sign Language experts for Peace Corps;
• Uganda—interim executive director for UWW’s office; and
• Nigeria—interim executive director for UWW’s office
• Botswana—we are currently recruiting for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2008-09 – Abbott Fund, Young Heroes, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Fdn. (EGPAF), ILRI and CNFA support projects in:

• Cameroon—grants management and organizational development support for EGPAF and the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board and their work with victims of AIDS;
• Northern India--teacher training for programs for young women at PPES;
• Kenya and Ethiopia—communications experts for ILRI;
• Swaziland--organizational expertise for the Young Heroes program; and;
• Mozambique and Tanzania—agricultural experts for CNFA Farmer to Farmer projects;

2006-07 Funding from W.K. Kellogg, UPS and United Way International support projects in:

• Peru-- forestry with the Association Promoting Education and Conservation in Amazonia;;
• Armenia—organizational expertise for Warm Hearth and their programs for orphans;
• Southern India and Indonesia-- financial management for long-term tsunami relief; and
• Zambia--fundraising for village libraries