Sheliza Kassam is a 15-year-old high school student. When she graduates next year she’s hoping to study optometry and then open her own practice. But career plans only satisfy so much. What she really loves to do is volunteer. She...
How much would you compensate a volunteer for his or her work and/or time? Should volunteerism be remunerated to reward the activity and, in theory, motivate others to give of their time and skills to worthy causes? These and other...
Since the earliest days of the internet, people have used it to solicit and organize groups of people to participate in projects in small ways. Called crowdsourcing, this process can be done by a number of ways, and for a...
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...
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...
