Volies was born in 2013 as a personal project under the name of Volunteering and Strategy, to continue working on the promotion of corporate volunteering after the closure of the volunteering foundation where I was working at the time.
It is precisely in this foundation where we organized the I Congress of corporate volunteering in Spain. After it, a large group of participating companies and organizations were clear that the movement started could not end there. And so we founded the Voluntare network, to keep alive the flame of what had begun to take shape there.
Voluntare is currently the largest Spanish-speaking corporate volunteering network with more than a hundred member companies and social organizations that constitute an innovative and unique think tank in the world around corporate volunteering. And that we have the honor of coordinating and promoting since its creation to date from Volies.
Today I can say that during these 10 years Volies has positioned itself as the leading organization in Spain and Europe that links companies and social organizations, promoting change and social transformation, mainly within companies, which play a key role in this process, and contributing to the evolution and maturity of corporate volunteering in Spain, Latin America and Europe.
Although this movement still has much to contribute today, our social enterprise is currently evolving together with society towards a new dimension, with a broader and more current concept of social transformation, introducing new forms of involvement of employees, customers and other stakeholders in corporate social action, such as diversity management, social communication, new forms of social participation, or the important activation of generation Z around social causes.
In addition, we have always done so with an enormous commitment, deep-rooted ethical values and a convinced sense of our social responsibility. Today we can name our company, and proudly say that Volies is not just any company, but “a social company”, a “company with purpose”, a “company with impact”.
For 10 years we have been faithful to the Global Compact Principles and the Sustainable Development Goals. But also this 2023 we have embarked on an ambitious process that certifies us as a B Corp Company, because we want to be part of this community of companies that want to be not only the best DEL companies, but the best companies FOR the world.
Today I can proudly say that Volies is no longer just my personal project, but a common project of our incredible team, without whom none of this would have been possible, of the more than 50 clients we have in different countries, some of whom have already been trusting our support for 10 years, of the more than 400 social organizations around the world that make volunteer actions a reality, of our allied networks, such as Points of Light, Voluntare, Volonteurope or IAVE, and of so many others with whom we have been building this incredible but real dream.
THANK YOU! for sharing with Volies this journey together these 10 years and celebrating it in such a special evening.
10th Anniversary Photo Gallery
Fotografías de Carlos M. Fernández
