About Help2Serve.Care

Our Mission

Serving Communities in Need Since 1995.

Help2Serve.Care is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) delivering structured, transformative immersive global service programs that prioritize excellence, safety, educational integrity, and measurable global impact.

Our founder has provided essential services to global communities in need since 1995 — work that began with Peace Corps service in Hungary and has since included health and wellness initiatives across South America and Africa, a leading role in a UN pilot project in the Dominican Republic, collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Ethiopia, and health education and service initiatives in Belize, Nicaragua, and Hungary. Our country directors live where our participants serve, year-round.

Our team brings firsthand leadership experience — having run and grown global service programs at scale — and founded Help2Serve.Care to carry these same proven principles forward with greater reach, deeper impact, and stronger support structures.

We are building the future of global service, one cohort at a time.

The One-Liner

"With Help2Serve.Care, you're building your future — while helping shape the future of others."

Our Core Team

The People Behind the Mission

A team built on decades of clinical expertise, global service leadership, academic rigor, and on-the-ground experience — united by one mission.

Jason Speaks

PhD, FNP-C, RN

Founder & Executive Director

🎓 PhD · UC San Francisco 🏥 20+ Years Clinical Experience 🕊️ Returned Peace Corps Volunteer 🇺🇳 UN Initiative · Dominican Republic 📚 Tenured Professor & Researcher

Founder

"My mission is to inspire a lifetime of service, leadership, and meaningful impact — while advancing sustainable change in communities around the world."

Jason Speaks is a nationally certified, Ph.D.-prepared Family Nurse Practitioner, clinician, educator, and global program leader. As Founder and Executive Director of Help2Serve.Care, he designs and delivers structured international service-learning programs grounded in safety, educational integrity, cultural respect, and measurable impact.

With 20+ years of clinical and academic experience, Peace Corps service, and leadership of a UN pilot initiative in the Dominican Republic, Jason brings a rare integration of expertise to every program Help2Serve.Care delivers.

PhD · Behavior Change Family Nurse Practitioner Tenured Professor Returned Peace Corps Volunteer UN Initiative · DR

Adolfo A. Ramirez

Co-Founder & Global Program Director, Help2Serve.Care

"Life is like a sunny Sunday — you have to live it at the beach."

With 30+ years directing international service programs across the Dominican Republic, Adolfo brings unmatched local expertise — from guiding groups up Pico Duarte (the Caribbean's highest peak) to managing all in-country logistics, safety, and program delivery.

🇩🇴 DR Expert 🏔️ Pico Duarte Guide 🌊 DR Tour Director, Since 1995

Jared Sidman

Country Director, Help2Serve.Care - Belize

"There’s something powerful about getting outside what you know — serving, listening, learning, and finding your way somewhere new."

A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who lives in Belize full time, Jared leads in-country operations — community partnerships with local schools, clinics and conservation organizations, plus logistics, safety and program delivery for every cohort.

🇧🇿 Lives in Belize 🕊️ Returned Peace Corps Volunteer 🎓 Master’s Degree 🇺🇸 AmeriCorps Alum

Ruth Abebe

Co-Founder & Director of Global Student Programs, Help2Serve.Care

"Join us in making a difference — and become part of something bigger than yourself."

Ruth designs and leads student-facing programs that connect participants with real-world service opportunities — building structured, transformative experiences accessible to students from all backgrounds and majors.

🎓 Student Program Design 🌍 Global Engagement 💡 Leadership Development

Meredith Madnick

MA, BA · Chair, Board of Directors

"Compassion in action — creating impact that extends far beyond the moment."

A strategist, anthropologist, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer with 20+ years leading across public and private sectors. Currently Director of Development at the Santa Monica Mountains Fund, Meredith brings deep expertise in program development, organizational growth, and partnership strategy to Help2Serve.Care's board.

🕊️ Returned Peace Corps Volunteer 🏛️ Board Chair 🌿 Anthropologist

Alan DeFever

RPh, MSL · Vice-Chair, Board of Directors

"Advancing healthcare access — locally and globally."

A Medical Science Liaison, pharmacy entrepreneur, and 25+ year healthcare leader. Alan led a COVID response clinic delivering 58,000+ tests and 15,000 vaccinations — and brings deep clinical, operational, and scientific expertise to Help2Serve.Care's board.

💊 RPh · MSL · Sanofi 🏥 25+ Yrs Healthcare 🏛️ Board of Directors

Our Framework

Why We Exist. How We Do It. What We Offer.

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Our Why

We exist to create sustained behavior change — within volunteers and the communities we serve — through meaningful global service grounded in decades of trusted experience.

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How We Do It

By delivering structured, immersive, safe, and well-supported service-learning experiences — we transform perspective, purpose, and community support systems.

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What We Offer

Immersive global programs that transform service into lasting community impact — and inspire careers, meaningful connections, and a lifelong commitment to giving back.

Get In Touch

Contact Us

Help2Serve.Care is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, and delivers programs through trusted global partnerships.

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General Inquiries

+1 (415) 669-0055

Programs, dates, eligibility, and application questions

Mon–Fri · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Pacific

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Participant & Family Support

+1 (415) 669-0066

Pre-departure participants, current volunteers, alumni, and families

Mon–Fri · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Pacific

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Email

info@help2serve.care

General questions, partnership inquiries, program information

Send an Email

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Urgent Situations

Urgent contact information is collected from enrolled participants and shared directly and privately with participants and their designated family contacts prior to program departure.

Legal & Nonprofit Information

Help2Serve.Care operates as a mission-driven educational service organization, recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN: 93-3620516; exemption effective May 30, 2024). Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Beginning with anticipated departures in 2028, Help2Serve.Care intends to introduce a structured Micro Fellowship Initiative — supported through strategic charitable partnerships to expand access and strengthen measurable service outcomes.

Tax-Exempt Status

501(c)(3) public charity under IRC 509(a)(2) · EIN 93-3620516
Contributions are tax-deductible · Exemption effective May 30, 2024
Registered as HELP2SERVECARE — A Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Corporation
View IRS determination letter →
View latest Form 990-N filing (FY2024) →

Mailing Address

Help2Serve.Care
1191 Malcolm Dixon Rd
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Governance & Transparency

Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. We file the IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard) annually, and our first full annual report will publish following our inaugural program year. Support our mission →

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