Indigenous Community Volunteers

Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that offers support to indigenous communities' business and enterprise initiatives in Australia. It does this by linking volunteers with professional and trade skills to communities that have identified particular needs. Skills often requested by communities include business planning and development, office and financial administration, systems management, IT, marketing, communication, horticulture and agriculture. While the contribution to and completion of projects is important, a key focus for ICV is transferring skills from the volunteer into the community. Rio Tinto is supporting ICV to further develop initiatives that build the capacity of community enterprise projects to deliver sustainable outcomes.