Our mission is to provide education, technical assistance, and financial support on water resource, water quality, and water treatment projects for under-resourced communities in East Africa.
Board of Directors
Jeremy Law Goldman
President and Chief Financial Officer
Adam V. Cornachione
Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer
Michael Cornachione
Secretary and Chief Engineer
The Full Story
​Michael Cornachione began serving communities in rural Tanzania in 2010 through Engineers without borders when he was a professor of civil engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT). Projects during this era included assessment of available water sources, courses on water treatment methods and water education workshops for the local primary schools.
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Mike found himself returning year after year, bringing new college students from OIT to assist in the program and developing a strong relationship with the Hanga community in southwest Tanzania. This program continued for about 7 years until Mike retired from teaching in 2017.
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In his retirement, Mike found himself with a desire to continue where he left off and return to Tanzania to help continue the education programs he started and see if there was a way to help develop better infrastructure for delivering clean water to the community. Though the pandemic initially delayed the project, Jeremy Goldman and Mike's son Adam Cornachione founded Volunteer 360 as an official non-profit in 2023.
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Since becoming a non-profit, the Volunteer 360 team led by Mike has returned to the Hanga region of Tanzania once every summer to assess and develop projects. In the last two visits, they have met with community members and have been able to install two deep water wells in the region, serving primarily public school children, along with developing curriculum for and supplying internet to a local trade school's tech program.
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Volunteer 360 is currently planning another trip in summer of 2026 to continue to expand their relationships to more communities and continue to develop education and sustainable water infrastructure to rural Africa.​​
V360 Timeline
May 2010
July 2022
December 2023
Mike is awarded a grant from Engineers Without Borders to begin developing water education programs in Tanzania. Mike, along with a group of students, will visit the area once a year until his retirement in 2017.
Michael's first trip back to Tanzania before the establishment of Volunteer 360.
Adam and Jeremy join the project and file for non-profit status
August 2024
The Volunteer 360 team takes their first trip to assess the area. A site for a deep well was decided by the community to go in downtown Hanga serving two primary schools.
October 2024
The first deep water well was installed along with a solar powered pump to provide water for the schools and community.
August 2025
The Volunteer 360 team returned to Hanga. This year a new well was drilled in Bomballi, serving a public secondary school. The team also collaborated with tech department of the local vocational school to develop curriculum and provide internet access to their computer lab.
