Charity Guide launched "Volunteering On-Demand" to attract busy would-be volunteers.  Read article

Beijing, China: Chang Wu, designer of the Beijing Olympic emblem, needed to discover the "unique" heart to represent volunteers for the upcoming games.  Read article

New York, USA: Americans should consider marking the anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks by performing good deeds, like volunteering for charities or checking in on elderly neighbours, says a group promoting September 11 as a day of national service.  Read article

Next week's Australian census will for the first time feature a question on volunteering. Recent research found that one in every three Australians is spending an average of 132 hours a year volunteering.  Read article

Plummeting volunteer numbers are the equivalent of a dead canary down a mine; a timely warning to do something about the circumstances that led to its death. Any data that will help build a true picture of volunteering in Australia and help us plan for a sustainable volunteering future is critical.   Read article

San Francisco, USA: San Francisco city Mayor Gavin Newsom is asking all city residents to spend a day volunteering, whether it's working with the homeless or helping plant trees.   Read article

MySpace.com, the social-networking site that boasts 90 million members who are "friends" with one another online, has launched a contest to mobilize its users to get involved in social activism.  Read article

Cairo, Egypt: Many of Cairo’s citizens are confronting urban-related problems, e.g., poverty, lack of housing and sanitation facilities, and internal migration through volunteering. Below are three projects showing how volunteers, through the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, contribute and mobilize fellow Cairenes in developing their 'triumphant city'.  Read article

Beijing, China: China has strengthened its campaign encouraging volunteers to help out in community activities, e.g., taking care of the poor and elderly, and expects to increase number of people volunteering to eight percent in 2008, from the current three percent.   Read article

We are proud to announce that the World Volunteer Web has won this year’s Web4Dev Award for excellence in website design and development. The Web4Dev Award for 2006 is sponsored by the World Bank and was presented on 21 June at a ceremony in Washington D.C.  Read article