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Are Brits Leaping to Volunteer Their Extra Time This Leap Day?
Some citizens in the UK are choosing to spend their extra time this 2012 Leap Year volunteering in their communities. The company EasyFundraising launched a campaign “urging companies, employees and...
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U.S. Nonprofits, Please Speak Up: Have You Shared in the Pro Bono Billions?
At the end of February, there was a spurt of articles renewing attention to an initiative started a few years ago, “A Billion + Change.” The campaign was launched by the Corporation for National and...
View ArticleApril Hot Topic: Common Sense and Volunteer Involvement
Energize gets asked a lot of questions about volunteers that would never be posed in relation to paid staff. Susan shares some examples of illogic, overreaction, and unthinking policies that hinder...
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Voluntourism and Services to Children: Important Questions Raised
Voluntourism, also known as volunteer vacationing, gives people the opportunity to travel for leisure and pleasure and volunteer in the countries they visit. Ideally, the vacationer gives meaningful...
View ArticleLet’s Be Honest about Nonprofit Boards of Directors (or, Lessons to Be...
Nonprofits are governed by boards of directors comprised mainly of volunteers and, as the Penn State scandal proves, they are not always effective. Why are volunteer resource managers so rarely asked...
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Asking "Why?" Gets Results!
The previous posting, "Why Don't Job Banks Include Volunteer Management as a Profession? (Applying My September Hot Topic to Real-Life Situations)," generated some wonderful action. Hillary Roberts,...
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The Debate Continues: Should Volunteer Hours Be Capped?
We’re delighted to be generating a lot of responses from many different colleagues in various countries to my January Hot Topic, Should We Cap the Number of Hours a Volunteer May Serve Each Week? As I...
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Russian Government Backlash at Rise of Volunteering
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, people from the western democracies have streamed into Russia and the other, now-independent countries to assist in restructuring public and private...
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Beware of the Same Old, Same Old Assumptions about Volunteering
On April 1, Forbes online posted an article, “Why So Few Baby Boomers Are Volunteering,” in response to the 2012 “Volunteering in the United States” report from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of...
View ArticleMay Hot Topic: Strategic Volunteer Management: Expanding Your Organization’s...
What does a volunteer involvement strategy look like? Why is it worth becoming one of an organization’s priorities?Subjects: Executive Director, Role ofPhilosophy of VolunteerismProgram AssessmentType...
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Raise the Charitable Driving Tax Deduction and Prove that Volunteers Matter!
The American tax system has strongly encouraged citizens to give back to their communities by providing tax deductions for financial contributions to charitable organizations. However, there are few...
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Criminal Background Checks on Board Volunteers? A Lawyer’s Advice
Don Kramer has long been the go-to attorney in Philadelphia (and way beyond) on nonprofit legal questions. He is the editor of Nonprofit Issues, a Web site and newsletter on “Nonprofit Law You Need to...
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The Sounds of Volunteer Management Silence
There’s less than a week left go in July, a few days until a new Volunteer Management Hot Topic is posted, and I’ve noticed something. The current Hot Topic,“Breaking through the Glass Ceiling for...
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Are Super Bowl Volunteers "Chumps"?
In his brief spot on National Public Radio yesterday, sports writer and commentator, Frank Deford noted that 16,000 volunteers had already been recruited to help at the 2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey....
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Australian Volunteering Conference Challenged to Think
The Australian National Volunteering Conference has just ended in Adelaide, South Australia. Already there is buzz around the opening keynote address delivered by Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO of the...
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