International Voluntary Service for Development
International Service
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CSD is leading a global research agenda to study volunteering for sustainable development. Our scholarship focuses on developing theoretical frameworks to understand and explain the relationships between volunteering and development; cultivating locally informed methods, tools, and processes to understand the contribution of volunteering to global sustainable development goals (including the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals); and understanding the conditions for an enabling environment under which volunteering for development can thrive.
Funding Partners: International Forum for Volunteering in Development, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Principal Investigator
![Benjamin Lough](https://csd.wustl.edu/files/2018/05/Lough.Ben_.headtshot.2021_280x386.jpg)
Benjamin Lough
CSD Faculty Director; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Email: bjlough@nospam.illinois.edu
Contact
![Lissa Johnson](https://csd.wustl.edu/files/1995/06/lissa-image-olin-280x386.jpg)
Lissa Johnson
CSD Associate Director; Director of Administration and Research;
Co-Director Financial Capability and Asset Building
- Email: ejohnson@nospam.wustl.edu