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International Student Volunteers (ISV) is a voluntourism not-for-profit organization based in Yorba Linda, California. It provides educational volunteer and travel adventure programs to university students and youth internationally. ISV has offices in each host country it operates in and is also established in Australia as International Student Volunteers Pty Ltd with a head office in Sydney.

Founded in 1982 by Randy Sykes under the name ‘Youth in Action’, ISV has been offering volunteer and adventure programs since 2002. Since then over 30,000 students have traveled with ISV and contributed nearly three million hours of volunteer service to projects in Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia, the United States, Thailand, Ecuador and South Africa. It has been selected as one of the top ten volunteer organizations in the world by the International Voluntary Service Task Force, part of the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy.In 2011, ISV also received the award for 'Outstanding Project of the Year' by the World Youth Student and Travel Confederation (WYSTC) in Barcelona for its San Juanillo Sustainable Development project in Costa Rica. In 2013, it made the top three for the Happy Feet Children's Development project in South Africa, and was runner up in 2014 for Blue Moon, a Community Development and Children's Health Education Program in the Dominican Republic.

Most of ISV’s participants are university students in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The ISV program is open to all individuals 18 and over (i.e. not limited to students), is offered during the summer months (both Northern and Southern Hemisphere summers), and is composed of a two or four week program in selected countries. ISV also offers 3-week high school programs for students aged between 15 and 18 in Costa Rica, Thailand, The Dominican Republic and New Zealand.