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Books, etc. to Purchase

The vast majority of resources in the VMRC are free and online; however, there are some valuable books, videos, and publications out there too. Here are some to consider:

Energize, Inc.: Bookstore

• A Guide to Volunteer Program Management Resources (PDF) – Volunteer Canada
• Books and Publications – Volunteering New Zealand
• Bookstore & Resources – Linda Graff and Associates, Inc.
• Canada Volunteerism Initiative Catalogue of Resources – Volunteer Canada
• Essential/Favorite Resources Regarding Volunteer Management and Volunteerism – Jayne Cravens, Coyote Communications
• Foundation Documents – Volunteering Australia
• Managing Volunteers: Books and Periodicals – Voluntary Sector Knowledge Network
• People Matters: Publications - VolResource
• Publications – Independent Sector

News and Research on Volunteerism

Research on volunteerism is a growing field, both in academic and practitioner settings. Here are some of the major news and research journals, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and online research groups/collections to read up on the most recent articles and findings. Looking for specific studies? Check out our Trends in Volunteerism section below.

• Turn Your Organisation Into A Volunteer Magnet, 2nd Edition (PDF) – Andy Fryar, Rob Jackson, and Fraser Dyer @ Energize, Inc.

• Australian Journal on Volunteering – Volunteering Australia
• e-Volunteerism – Energize, Inc.
• The International Journal of Volunteer Administration (IJOVA)
• Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ)
• Service Enquiry - Global Service Institute and Volunteer and Service Enquiry Southern Africa (VOSESA)
• Voluntary Action: The Journal of the Institute for Volunteering Research

• The NonProfit Times
• Nonprofit World Magazine – Society for Nonprofit Organizations
• Magazines - VolResource (UK)
• Volunteer Leadership Magazine – The Points of Light Institute
• Volunteering - Volunteering England

• Blue Avocado
• Board Café – CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
• eVOLution – Volunteer Canada
• Global Volunteer Update – World Volunteer Web
• National Service Briefing - Youth Service America @ Servenet.org
• Newsletter - VolunteerMatch
• RCVO Connections – Resource Centre for Voluntary Organizations
• Resource Connection - Corporation for National and Community Service
• To The Point – The Points of Light Institute
• VolResource (UK/Ireland only)
• Volunteer Management Review - CharityChannel
• Volunteer Today

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Registration required)
• Volunteering – Guardian Unlimited

• About Online Volunteering: Information Non-Profits Can Use – Macdonald Youth Services (Print, audio, and video resources and tutorials on a variety of online volunteering issues)
• Life Matters - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National (A series of discussions with Dr Melanie Oppenheimer on volunteering in Australia)

• About Online Volunteering: Information Non-Profits Can Use – Macdonald Youth Services (Print, audio, and video resources and tutorials on a variety of online volunteering issues)
• Recruiting and Supporting Your Volunteers - Jayne Cravens

• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
• Australian Volunteering Library Network (Avalon) - Volunteering Australia
• Best Practices Toolbox - The UPS Foundation
• Bibliographies – Center for Social Development, Washington University
• The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
• The Commission on the Future of Volunteering
• Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
• Imagine Canada
• Independent Sector
• Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR)
• Joseph and Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library
• National Statistics – Volunteering England
• The New Volunteerism Project: The Archival Collection of Ivan Henry Scheier – Dayton Memorial Library at Regis University
• New Zealand Research on Volunteering – Volunteering New Zealand
• Nonprofit Sector Research Fund – The Aspen Institute
• Papers and Reports – ServiceLeader.org
• Research – World Volunteer Web
• Research and Evaluation – The Points of Light Institute
• Research and Policy – The Resource Center, Corporation for National and Community Service
• Service-Related Publications – Center for Social Development, Washington University
• Special Collection on Volunteerism - Regis University
• Statistics - Volunteering Australia
• Statistics on Volunteering - Energize, Inc
• Stats and Facts on Volunteering – Volunteer Canada
• Studies on Volunteers and Volunteerism - ServiceLeader.org
• Trends and Research – Volunteer Canada
• Urban Institute
• VoluntaryGateway.ca
• Volunteer Sector Research – VolunteerResource.org

Trends in Volunteerism

The nice thing about trends is that they are constantly changing. Of course, that makes keeping a web section up to date especially challenging! We’ve got these listed by the date they were released. Think any of them are already out of date? Let us know!

The real source for trends though is from volunteer management professionals themselves, so here's a place to talk about them: what’s happening in your neck of the woods?

Also see Resources for Volunteer Management Professionals for generation, organization, and issue specific research.

2008

• The Changing and Non-Changing Faces of Volunteering (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• New! Global Volunteer Management Survey 2008: Summary Report (PDF) – People First-Total Solutions
• The Impact of Public Policy on Volunteering in Community-Based Organisations (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• Management Matters: A National Survey of Volunteer Management Capacity (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• Managing for Success: Volunteers’ Views on their Involvement and Support (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• National Statistics – Volunteering England (2008)
• National Survey of Volunteering Issues 08 – Volunteering Australia (2008)
• Philantherapy: A Benefit for Personnel and Organisations Managing Volunteers (Volunteer Therapy) (PDF) – Peter A. Konwerski and Honey W. Nashman, George Washington University @ Voluntary Action: The Journal of the Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• Regular and Occasional Volunteers: How and Why They Help Out (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• Report of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering and Manifesto for Change (PDF) - The Commission on the Future of Volunteering (2008)
• New! Volunteering in America – Corporation for National and Community Service (interactive website of U.S. volunteerism trends and statistics)
• New! Volunteerism and NGOs in Latin America (PDF) – Terrence Jantzi, Eastern Mennonite University @ Center for Social Development, Washington University
• When is a Volunteer Role NOT a Volunteer Role? – Andy Fryar @ OzVPM
• Who Gives Time Now? Patterns of Participation in Volunteering (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research (2008)
• Who’s Lending a Hand? A National Survey of Nonprofit Volunteer Screening Practices (PDF) – The National Center for Victims of Crime (2008)

2007

• Are We Tending to the Future of Volunteerism? (PDF) – Irv Katz @ The International Journal of Volunteer Administration (2007)
• Capacity Building Part 1: Building Nonprofit Organizational Capacity through Civic Engagement – Jill Friedman Fixler @ Volunteer Management Review, CharityChannel (2007) (Part 2)
• The CVA Credential: A Mark of Excellence (PDF) – Katherine H. Campbell, Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration @ The International Journal of Volunteer Administration (2007)
• The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research – Corporation for National and Community Service (2007)
• Helping Out: A National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving (PDF) – The National Centre for Social Research and the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK (2007)
• National Service Responds to the Hurricanes – Corporation for National and Community Service (2007)
• National Survey of Volunteering Issues 07 (PDF) – Volunteering Australia (2007)
• Research Partnerships Build the Service Field in Africa: Special Issue on Civic Service in the Southern African Development Community (PDF) – The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher, University of Johannesburg, and the Journal of Social Development in Africa, School of Social Work, University of Zimbabwe (2007)
• Supporting Volunteering Activities in Australian Muslim Communities, Particularly Youth (PDF) – Australian Multicultural Foundation & Volunteering Australia
• Volunteering in America: 2007 City Trends and Rankings – Corporation for National and Community Service (2007)
• Volunteering in America: 2007 State Trends and Rankings in Civic Life – Corporation for National and Community Service (2007)
• Volunteering in the United States – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2007)

2006

• The Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement – Volunteer Canada (2006)
• The Changing World of Volunteer Resources Management – Celeste Sauls-Marks @ Volunteer Management Review, CharityChannel (2006)
• The Economic Value of Volunteering in Queensland (PDF) - Department of Communities, Queensland Government (2006)
• Giving in Numbers, 2006 Edition (PDF) - Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (2006)
• Individual Giving Survey 2006 (PDF) - National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, Singapore (2006)
• Manifesto for Volunteering in Europe (PDF) - European Volunteer Center (2006)
• The Multi-Paradigm Model of Volunteering – Nancy Macduff, Volunteer Leadership Magazine (2006)
• National Survey of Volunteering Issues 06 – Volunteering Australia (2007)
• Organising Volunteers: Activating Infrastructures and Reflexive Volunteering in the Municipality of Helsinki (PDF) - Peter Hilger, City of Helsinki Urban Research Unit (2006)
• Participative Volunteer Management: The Emerging Paradigm? (Part 1) – Scott Martin @ Volunteer Management Review, CharityChannel (2006) (Part 2)
• The Rising Costs of Volunteering (PDF) - Volunteering Australia, Costs of Volunteering Taskforce (2006)
• Strengthening Civil Society Through Volunteerism (PDF) – Dilfuza Bahrieva @ The International Journal of Volunteer Administration (2006)
• Survey of Volunteering in the United States – Corporation for National and Community Service (2006)
• Volunteer Growth in America: A Review of Trends Since 1974 – Corporation for National and Community Service (2006)

2005

• 12 Key Actions of Volunteer Program Champions: CEOs Who Lead the Way – Betty Stallings, M.S.W. (2005)
• Five Emerging Patterns of Volunteerism – Merrill Associates (2005)
• Survey of Volunteering in the United States – Corporation for National and Community Service (2005)
• Volunteer Centres in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory: A 2004-2005 Snapshot Study (PDF) – Erin Barnhart, Canada-US Fulbright Fellow @ Volunteer BC (2005) Vol Center

2004

• 2004 Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering, and Participating (CSGVP) (PDF) – Statistics Canada (2004)
• From Research to Action: A Unified National Response to the 2004 Volunteer Management Capacity Study (PDF) – National Assembly (2004)
• Managers of Volunteers: A Profile of the Profession – Imagine Canada (2004)
• Strategy for Volunteering Infrastructure in England 2004–2014 (PDF) – Volunteering England (2004)
• Survey of Volunteering in the United States – Corporation for National and Community Service (2004)
• Volunteer Management Capacity in America’s Charities and Congregations: A Briefing Report (PDF) – Mark A. Hager, The Urban Institute (2004)
• Volunteer Management Practices and Retention of Volunteers (PDF) – Mark A. Hager and Jeffrey L. Brudney, The Urban Institute (2004)
• Volunteerism in Mexico – Francisco J. Morales Camarena @ ServiceLeader (2004)
• What Has Changed – Merrill Associates (2004)

2003

• A Choice Blend: What Volunteers Want from Organisation and Management (PDF) – Katharine Gaskin, Institute for Volunteering Research (2003)
• The Cost of a Volunteer: What It Takes to Provide a Quality Volunteer Experience (PDF) – The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service @ Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) (2003)
• Exploring Contemporary Trends – Merrill Associates (2003)
• Survey of Volunteering in the United States – Corporation for National and Community Service (2003)
• Volunteering in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Azra S. Kacapor, MSc, United Nations Volunteers @ VolunteerResource.org (2003)

2002

• Survey of Volunteering in the United States – Corporation for National and Community Service (2002)

2001

• Bright Future: Developing Volunteer Management – Pat Gay, The Institute for Volunteering Research @ Volunteering England (2001)
• A National Agenda on Volunteering: Beyond the International Year of Volunteers – Volunteering Australia (2001)
• The Right Stuff: New Ways of Thinking about Managing Volunteers – Meta Zimmeck, The Institute for Volunteering Research @ Volunteering England (2001)

2000

• Trends in Volunteerism – Volunteer Canada (2000)