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Our Vision

Our Vision and Mission

East Villagers’ mission is to Drive a New Movement for Non-Profits in East Asia. We provide a platform to connect and facilitate sharing of resources among volunteers and nonprofits. Our Social Development Technology Laboratory in Beijing aims to build a web 2.0 support network for the poor.  EV was founded on October 2006.

1. Connect volunteers and help non-profits build their own online community.
2. Cultivate innovation and an element of fun to non-profit work.
3. Create continuity in non-profit projects through sustaining relationships, maintaining resources, and facilitating online collaboration.
4. Call people to action: people are brought to action when they are experiencing something first hand. East Villagers brings these first-hand experiences to them.
Asia is the world’s largest continent making up 60% of the world’s current population with approximately 4 billion people. In an age where technology has enabled great social change within a click of a mouse, we find parts of world including 80% of Asia’s population still left behind.

Imagine if…

  • the rural villages of Asia can access the internet to seek social justice and share their stories…
  • leading NGOs can be become models for grassroots NGOs, mentoring them along the way…
  • efforts are not repeated and less reinvention of the wheel due to lack of information…

Resulting in a synergy of creative ideas, innovation, collaboration of resources, and action for positive change in East Asia and all across the world.

Our Main Goals

  1. Connect volunteers and help non-profits build their own online community.
  2. Cultivate innovation and an element of fun to non-profit work.
  3. Create continuity in non-profit projects through sustaining relationships, maintaining resources, and facilitating online collaboration.
  4. Call people to action: people are brought to action when they are experiencing something first hand. East Villagers brings these first-hand experiences to them.

East Villagers was founded by Ping Chao, Peter Nguyen, and Nancy Nguyen on October 2008 and is sponsored by the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation.

What is East Villagers?

East Villagers is the only online community and news wire dedicated to non-profit organizations, their projects, and volunteers’ life-changing stories.

Anyone can share their life-changing stories and impact people all around the world. East Villagers allows users to share experiences with friends and family through blogs, images, and videos. Through these first hand experiences, villagers can inspire others to make a difference.

What makes EV different from just any other social networking sites?

1. We treat non-profits and volunteers as first-class members by tailoring our online community to meet their most pressing needs. Our staff builds deep friendships with our partners and members.
2. We focus on the global Asian community and Asia.
3. We provide leading web tools to aid nonprofits and supplement their pre-existing websites and services (partnership linking, project management, video database, press release wire, feature best NGO practices and material, evaluation reports).
4. We help people take small steps towards action to create BIG impact by facilitating partnerships, sharing of resources, and integrating the best web technology into a central platform.
5. We showcase Top 100 NGOs in East Asia as models for grassroots NGOs.
6. We provide a free website, media, marketing,  technology training, and volunteer services for under-resourced, grassroots NGOs in rural regions of East Asia and South East Asia.