Responsible VolunteeringSDGI is a member of the Effective Practices Workgroup of the Building Bridges Coalition. Together with a broad spectra of international organizations, think-tanks, and institutions for higher learning (please click here for a list of member organizations) SDGI aims to synthesize experiences from all relevant sectors. The goals of the effective practices workgroup are to: Identify a group of guidelines and practices for operating effective, high quality international volunteering programs Collect the collective wisdom from the field of international volunteering including: Ideas, approaches and practices that have worked well Things to consider before making a decision or taking action for growth, program initiation or expansion, organizational changes, etc. Lessons learned from previous experience that have not worked well Pitfalls to avoid in various situations, including:
- starting an organization
- creating programs in new countries/regions
- recruiting & preparing volunteers
- selecting partner organizations Synthesize collected data into organized set of practices & guidelines Publish the resulting collection of wisdom in a manner accessible to all BBC members (with help from technology advisory workgroup) Challenge all BBC members - whether they are a brand new organization or one with decades of history – to review the resulting body of work and reflect on their own practices to seek opportunities to improve their quality and effectiveness.
For international volunteer engaging organizatons: feel free to dowload the Voluntourims Self Check Tool (curtesy of Voluntourism 101). | 
