Linda Graff’s voice grows firm as she insists that to use the term, court-mandated volunteering is to speak in contradictions. “Mandatory volunteering is an oxymoron. Volunteering is, by definition, voluntary,” she stresses. A long-time consultant in the in the nonprofit...
In the last two years, Danielle Duska has learned to scuba dive off the Perhentian Islands of Malaysia, come face-to-face with great white sharks in the coastal waters of South Africa, and became a certified game ranger at a conservation...
Against the current backdrop of sector challenges, nonprofits have a tremendous opportunity to use cross-sector partnerships to support their mission by accessing highly skilled and engaged volunteers. Unlike previous times when partnerships with corporations were mainly philanthropic in nature and...
In business, successful organizations run on high-performing teams. Whether it's an ongoing business departmental team or a special project team, it's been demonstrated that a team is stronger than the sum of the individuals that make up that team. Teamwork...
Employer Supported Volunteer Programs. Corporate Social Responsibility. Dollars for Doers. Days of Caring. All good programs. But are they as effective as they could be? It's a dangerous question to ask, and I hope no one takes offence. Isn't volunteerism...
Our volunteers are an important and integral part of our organization and we have had many of them over the years. The trouble is, our staff and volunteers often clash. What can we do to improve relations between the two?...
What organizations need done and what volunteers want to do are not always the same, but, rather than wringing hands and recalling the good old days when volunteers were happy to do menial tasks every Tuesday, the 2010 Bridging the...
Recently I was standing in an elevator and started up a conversation with a stranger about the usual day-to-day stuff. Nice weather we are having this winter? Can't wait for summer, and all that. Interestingly, she asked me where I...
Statistics Canada released the results of its 2010 Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) last Wednesday. Released every three years, this iteration again provides some intriguing updates to how much (and how many) Canadians are giving back to...
For a year now, Vicky Mah and Jillian Walsh, both second-year medical students at the University of Calgary, have been volunteering their time running the student-run medical clinic at the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre in the city's downtown core....
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