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Volunteering and COVID-19: Time to Connect the Informal with the Formal
It’s a fact: 70 percent of volunteerism throughout the world is done by passionate individuals who wish to serve others and do so outside the framework of an organization or other entity. And during the COVID-19 pandemic – when organizational volunteerism is being reduced or…
Karmit Bulman
Feature Articles
January 2021
Moving Volunteer Management Forward: To Organize or Not To Organize, That is the Question
Volunteer management professionals have been fighting for years to be recognized for their occupation, the work they do and the potential it holds. This journey contains key questions: What do we want? What has been accomplished? What have we yet to accomplish? What will it…
Lee Jones
Feature Articles
January 2021
Change: Contemporary Will Soon Be Classic
The last year brought unexpected change and disruption to the volunteer management profession. But as we all start a new year, the profession is poised to take advantage of opportunities to move forward and change the future for the better. In this Voices, Meghan Kaskoun…
Meghan Kaskoun, CVA
Voices
January 2021
Part 2: An Introduction to Ethics for the Volunteer Engagement Profession
In this Part 2 conclusion of this new Ethics column, authors Katie Campbell and Erin Spink delve deeper into a key ethics tool known as the CCVA Values and Principles document. Together, Campbell and Spink unpack how these values and principles guide the ethical behaviour of…
Katherine H. Campbell, CVA, Erin R. Spink
Ethics
January 2021
Zero Paperwork? An Attainable Goal When You Automate the Volunteer Lifecycle
Question: How much time would you save if you no longer manually sourced, screened, scheduled, tracked, analyzed, reported on and reached out to re-engage your volunteers and their contacts?Answer: Though most of our peers wouldn't admit it, you'd probably reclaim 20 percent to…
Stephen Sherrill
Ahead of the Curve
January 2021
Volunteering While Employed: A Win-Win-Win
Meaningful volunteering is one way for employees with high work demands to recover from stressful work situations. Employees who volunteer show higher levels of positive organizational citizenship behaviors than employees who don’t volunteer. At the same time, many nonprofit…
Laurie Mook, Ph.D.
Research to Practice
January 2021
All Things Volunteer Engagement and 2020
In this Points of View, Rob Jackson and Erin Spink sit down (well, Rob stood up!) to chat on video about all things volunteer engagement and 2020. In what was an exceptional year for the whole world, volunteer engagement professionals faced new challenges and opportunities of a…
Rob Jackson, Erin R. Spink
Points of View
January 2021

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