Randy LeGrant

Randy is the Executive Director of the GeoVisions Foundation. He has spent the last 44 years managing organizations that send people abroad on cultural and educational exchanges.

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Our Work & Travel Students Can't Come To The U.S. With This Helmet

Our Work and Travel team was in Taiwan this past weekend interviewing Taiwanese students for the GeoVisions U.S. Work and Travel program. Our CEO, Kevin Morgan, came across this photo in the Taiwan Times. In Asia people rely on motorcycles as a...

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Volunteer Abroad Returnees: Coming Home or Going to Volunteer Again?

A few days ago I wrote a Blog post about a volunteer (Daniel Jackson) who returned home only to start up his own non-profit and find new ways to...

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Volunteers Trust Us Sight Unseen. We Need To Earn That Trust

Have you ever been in a situation where something didn't work out and you expected the worst? Maybe you had a flat tire on the way to the airport....

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Volunteer Abroad And Start Up Your Own Project!

One of the best feelings in our work is to see volunteers provide assistance to a community or a medical outpost or teaching kids to read in rural...

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Dance With The One That Brung Ya To Volunteer Abroad

I had planned to write a nice "thank you" and have a happy, safe and prosperous New Decade blog post today.

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In Voluntourism Short-Term Good Is Also Good For The Long-Term

On November 16, Matt Villano over at Time.com wrote an interesting post entitled, "Room Service and a Shovel: The Rise of Voluntourism." You can read...

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