Staff

Profiles

Anthony Carlisle
Executive Director
International Resource Centre

Anthony has been involved in IAVE since 2001, when he took a delegation of Taiwanese volunteers and government officials to the World Conference in Amsterdam. Since then, he helped establish and then worked for IAVE-Taiwan, before doing the same for IAVE-IRC - where he is still employed today on a part-time basis.

Originally from the United Kingdom, Anthony is a permanent resident of Taiwan and is fluent in Chinese. He is married to a Taiwanese woman and has two children. His other part-time jobs are: line producer of the English language news show for Da Ai TV and a “responsible one” for a small district of the church in Taipei.

Sarah Hayes
Director
Global Corporate Volunteer Council

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Hayes is a consultant specializing in employee volunteering programs and successful business-community partnerships. She works with the Civil Society Consulting Group (CSCG) as well as being on the leadership faculty of the Points of Light Institute and Hands On Network.

Ms. Hayes founded KPMG’s “Involve” Program and developed it from a local San Francisco initiative into a national, award-winning program. During Ms. Hayes tenure as the national manager, Involve was a recipient of the National Award for Excellence in Workplace Volunteerism from the Points of Light Foundation, the National Family Volunteering Award from the Points of Light Foundation, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Volunteer Administration, in addition to many regional and local awards. Ms. Hayes also worked with Starwood Hotels Worldwide to develop a global employee volunteer program strategy, and was instrumental in Starwood becoming the hotel partner of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).

Ms. Hayes has served on the National Council of Workplace Volunteerism in the United States for a number of years and was on the U.S. Committee for the International Year of Volunteers (IYV) in 2001.

Becoming active with the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) in 2000, Ms. Hayes originally served as the board member representing corporate interests, and currently directs the efforts of IAVE’s Global Corporate Volunteer Council (G-CVC), launched at the World Volunteer Conference in New Delhi in 2006. Through her efforts G-CVC membership has more than tripled in less than three years, and will be a prominent contributor to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers in 2011 – IYV+10.

Ms. Hayes currently resides in the New York City area, where she enjoys hiking along the Hudson River, reading, seeing plays and hearing music with friends. She has a beautiful daughter, Ellen, who is 29, and two very sweet cats.

Kathi Dennis
Executive Director

Kathleen Dennis currently serves as the IAVE Executive Director. Originally from Detroit, Kathi came to Washington DC in 1994 to work at the Corporation for National and Community Service to help launch the National Civilian Community Corps, an AmeriCorps Program. Over the past 15 years, Kathi has worked with a number of national and international programs developing training initiatives, recruiting members, and raising money. Kathi previously served as the first Executive Director for the International Association for Volunteer Effort, coordinating efforts in with volunteer centers and organizations recognizing and celebrating the International Year of Volunteers, 2001. Kathi joined Habitat for Humanity International in 2005 to work with the HFHI National Service Programs and eventually helped in developing the national service response in dealing with the destruction resulting from Hurricane Katrina. Since 2007, Kathi has worked as a consultant with NGOs and volunteer programs doing training for volunteer administrators, youth volunteering and strategic planning in disaster recovery. She also serves on the board for CCVA, the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration.

Jeongan Song
Secretary to the IAVE President's Office

Jeongan (pronunciation: jong-ahn) is currently working for IAVE and Volunteering Korea (former, Korea Council of Volunteering). She is from South Korea. She studied Education (BA and MA coursework completion in Korea) and Communications (MA and one year Ph.D. coursework in USA). Before joining IAVE in 2010, she had diverse experiences working in and with NGOs (mainly in global citizenship education or research) and volunteering activities (two years at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, 2006-2008), which all account for five years. Based on reflection from her past working experiences, she is now visioning the relationship between volunteering and development, and inter-organizational communication (partnership, networking, and cooperation) in making a better world.

Kenn Allen
Membership Services
Assistant Treasurer
Director of Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project

Kenn manages its Membership Services, serves as IAVE's Assistant Treasurer and directs its new Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project.

He is the founder and president of the Civil Society Consulting Group LLC, a global consulting firm based in Washington DC that specializes in working with leaders of business, NGOs, and government to "unleash to power of people to change the world."  He has worked as a consultant and trainer in over 30 countries worldwide, helping develop organizational systems to effectively engage volunteers, designing and facilitating strategic planning processes and advocating for corporate volunteering.   Kenn served five years (1996-2001) as the elected volunteer World President of IAVE.  For eleven years he was a senior executive of the Points of Light Foundation,
the national volunteer center in the U.S.