freely-available academic research on volunteerism
09:41, 24 September 2010
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All papers from the National Council of Voluntary Organizations (NCVO) Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2010 are now available online. Dave Kane of the NCVO research team offers a personal view of the papers he most enjoyed, as does Karl Wilding, Head of Research.
People who should check out these papers:
- Managers or directors of community engagement / volunteer involvement programs
- Heads of organizations or programs that involve volunteers
- Those who work in academic settings and teach or research regarding volunteerism or community engagement, and their students
- Volunteer management trainers
- Media/press people who write about community engagement / volunteer involvement
- Anyone who wants to understand the realities of community engagement / volunteer involvement
Most of these papers are focused on the United Kingdom, but even if you aren't in that region, you need to read some of these papers if you are a part of any of those bulleted groups.
Kudos to NCVO for sharing these papers online, and for staff blogging about their views. Knowledge from conferences shouldn't be restricted to only those who can afford to attend. Ofcourse, I completely understand conferences not sharing absolutely everything -- then why attend the conference, unless it's an absolutely amazing networking experience? I so wish other nonprofit and NGO-related conferences would do this kind of thing! I've attended the NCVO conference, and it was terrific -- if I had funding, I would most definitely go again.
Also, kudos to NCVO for working to bring academic researchers in philanthropy together with practitioners. We all have so much to share with each other -- it improves both of our work! If only folks from the corporate world who want to be involved with volunteer initiatives would adopt a similar tact.
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