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• Not-for-profit Organisations, Australia, 2006-07
  • This publication by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) sets out information about non profit organisations which includes summary of operations, sources of income, expenses, capital expenditure, and assets and liabilities. Data cubes are available in excel or zip formats.
• Frontier of opportunity: Critical success factors of Employee Volunteering Programs for the small-to-medium not-for-profit sector
  • This research explores Employee Volunteering Programs (EVPs) and how they assist small-to-medium Not-For-Profits (NFPs) and inform the development of EVP support services by the Centre for Volunteering. With input from NFPs and corporations, the critical success factors identified include a minimum of 2 years experience, a need to promote EVPs widely, and the importance of regular monitoring of EVPs.
• Information sheet: Model code of practice for organisations involving volunteer staff
  • This resources provides a list of policies for not-for-profit organisations and projects involving volunteers. It is to be read in conjunction with Volunteering Australia's national standards for best practice volunteer management. Some examples include: not placing volunteer staff in roles that were previously held by paid staff or have been identified as paid jobs; and reimbursing volunteer staff for out of pocket expenses incurred on behalf of the organisation.
• National Conference on Volunteering, March 2006
  • This web page contains selected presentations from the bi-annual 11th National Conference on Volunteering, March 2006. Papers cover topics such as volunteers in a disaster; culturally diverse volunteer bases; corporate volunteering; volunteers in post-conflict situations; running a 'special event'; insurance; changing trends in volunteering; equal employment opportunities (EEO), bullying, and anti-discrimination; volunteers and the law; and national standards for volunteers in not-for-profit organisations.
• Toolkit: Designing volunteer roles and position descriptions
  • This resource provides steps to defining and managing the work of volunteers. The first part of the process is to analyse the role design, and develop it as a position description framed in terms of responsibilities, or what the work actually achieves. Additional information such as project plans, key performance indicators, manuals, procedures and even verbal instruction are relevant to all volunteers, and belong in a manual (either one for induction or policies and procedures). There is a summary of benefits for the volunteer and the organisation in creating position descriptions, and describes how they can be used as planning and management tools. Worksheets, templates, tables and charts are also provided to assist in this analysis. A sample position description is at the end of the document.
• Is corporate volunteering a benefit or self serving?
  • This June 2008 hot topic discusses volunteering in a corporate context, and the establishment of employee volunteer programs. It examines why volunteer managers in corporations are not making links within the voluntary sector through training programs or network meetings. It follows other monthly hot topics such as balance of power, volunteer management, and volunteer programs and 'moments' of celebration.
• Subject guide: Rural and remote volunteering: A great way to strengthen communities
  • The guide looks at current economic and social challenges faced by rural and remote communities, and the positive effects of volunteering on community and volunteers. The resource includes strategies to encourage volunteering but notes that the diversity of such communities does not suit a one size fits all approach. It provides recent examples of community based volunteering groups and their activities from across Australia. The web page also links to the National Standards for involving volunteers in not-for-profit organisations.
• Canada Who Cares? : The Graff-Reed Conversations
  • The Who Cares? audio files are a series of conversations between Linda L. Graff and Paul B. Reed, two leading Canadian experts on volunteering and community. They are supported by a website of information that points to hard data and research about the decline of a volunteer base and the wide ranging impacts that it will have on Canadian society. There are references to articles that have been produced by the Nonprofit Sector Knowledge Base Project commissioned by Statistics Canada.
• Retaining older volunteers is key to meeting future volunteer needs
  • This United States resource examines older adults' decisions around formal volunteering to highlight the importance of volunteer retention strategies for nonprofit agencies. Findings include that this group generally uphold original decisions, but more of them stop than start volunteering. Older adults who have volunteered consistently and for a number of hours in the past and who are married to volunteers are less likely to stop volunteer activities. Older adults are more likely to start volunteering if their spouses volunteer.
• Voluntary work Australia 2006
  • The Australian Bureau of Statistics has prepared results from the national Voluntary Work Survey conducted throughout Australia from March to July 2006 as part of the General Social Survey (GSS). The major aim of the survey was to collect data on rates of participation in voluntary work, hours contributed, characteristics of people who volunteer, the types of organisations they work for, and the activities they undertake. Topics are: geographical comparison, who volunteers, relationship with paid employment, changes in volunteering over time, organisations and activities, types of voluntary activity, hours volunteered, costs and reimbursement, reasons for being a volunteer, and volunteer recruitment.