A report, published by Volunteering England, on potential ways forward for volunteer management, with particular focus on professionalisation. The findings form the basis of the National Volunteer Managers Forum (UK) strategy to promote standards of excellence in volunteer management.   Visit site

This note aims to provide the principal stakeholders in the promotion of volunteerism - governments, the private sector, civil society organizations (CSOs) and development cooperation agencies – with the information they need to put in place a volunteer infrastructure. This infrastructure encompasses the systems, mechanisms and instruments needed to ensure an environment where volunteerism can flourish.    Read article

The second volume in ARNOVA’s Occasional Paper Series — Emerging Areas of Volunteering — focuses on episodic volunteering, virtual volunteering, cross-national volunteering, and employee volunteer programmes. This volume also revisits two longstanding forms of volunteer involvement - volunteering to government and volunteering to nonprofit organization boards of directors.  Visit site

This final conference report includes recommendations on volunteerism and the Millennium Development Goals brought forward during the International Conference on Volunteerism & the MDGs, held in December 2004 in Islamabad, Pakistan.   Read article

Green Volunteers is a guide listing hundreds of conservation and wildlife projects throughout the world where little or no experience is required.  Visit site

How To Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas is an in-depth guide for anyone who wants volunteer in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East or Eastern Europe. Provides information on how you can help people overseas while exploring other cultures, making friends, learning about yourself, and enhancing your skills. Based on six years of research that included fieldwork in over 25 countries.

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To reverse antagonism towards traditional democratic practices and institutions, local politicians must move beyond consumer satisfaction and public consultation to more deliberative and participatory politics such as volunteering, says a new booklet ‘Individual Pathways in Participation’.  Read article

Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture has been designed as a starting point for people in voluntary and not-for-profit organizations in New Zealand who want to know about the laws that may affect them, the way their organizations work and what they do. Published by the New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations.   Visit site

A new manual on "Motivation and Qualification of Volunteers (MoQuaVo)" published by Germany-based Centre for Empiricial Pedagogical Research (Zentrum für empirische pädagogische Forschung). The publication, aimed at fostering voluntary work to help prevent drug addiction in Europe, is for volunteer managers and contains checklists, questionnaires and other useful information on how to deal with volunteering and drug addiction.  Read article

The final report of the UN Millennium Project published 17 January 2005 recommends the way forward, outlining a way to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Includes the overview (in six languages) and the full report.  Visit site