Feature Articles

This area of the Archives lists all the general articles featured in each past issue of the journal. Please note, of course, that the recurring special sections in each issue also contain articles, though forcused in intent. So to browse all the resources of e-Volunteerism, be sure to also check out the "By Section" area of the Archives. When you search by subject, author, etc., all articles anywhere in an issue will be included.

Articles

The Muslim Tradition of Service in Contemporary Times (April 2013)
The Professor Is In: Using Classroom Techniques In Your Volunteering Presentations, Part 2 (April 2013)
Connecting Volunteer Program Managers Across the State in Victoria, Australia (April 2013)
Using Personality Profiles: A Game Changer for Volunteer-Involving Organizations (January 2013)
Voolla! A Brand New Initiative That Merges Volunteering and Fundraising (January 2013)
The Professor Is In: Classroom Techniques That Capture Critical Issues in Volunteer Management, Part 1 (January 2013)
Doing Something about It! Volunteering New Zealand Responds to the Call to Increase Recognition for Managers of Volunteers (October 2012)
Show, Don't Just Tell: Writing to Inspire, Motivate and Recruit Volunteers (October 2012)
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Volunteer-involving Organizations: Western Australia Tackles a Not-Always-Obvious but Persistent Problem (October 2012)
Volunteer Management and The Art of Letting Small Bad Things Happen (July 2012)
Emphasizing the Personal and Professional Benefits of Service: Encouraging Volunteers to Ask, "What’s in It for Me?" (July 2012)
Employee Volunteering – What Companies Want and How Nonprofits Can Give It to Them (July 2012)
Hail and Farewell, Steve! Colleagues and Friends Highlight Their Favorite “McCurleyisms” (April 2012)
Peer Career Coaching: Investing in Your Professional Development (April 2012)
Reducing the Risks of Lawsuits Involving Volunteers (April 2012)
The Volunteer Impact Program (VIP) Revisited: An Update on an Innovative Approach to Strengthening Volunteer Engagement Capacity (January 2012)
Students vs. The Machine: Lessons Learned in the Student Community Following the Christchurch Earthquakes (January 2012)
Volunteering through Devotion: India’s Purna Kumbh Mela Celebration (January 2012)
Current Models of Certification: A World Tour (October 2011)
Keyboard Roundtable: What Does the Field Think? (October 2011)
The Vocabulary, Rationale and Critiques of Professional Credentialing (October 2011)
Miami Dolphins Special Teams: A New Game Plan for Volunteers and Community Service (July 2011)
A Program Called POOPs: Pets of Older Persons (July 2011)
Compensation and the Volunteer Manager (July 2011)
Teens, Texting and Ten Dollars: A Volunteer Project for Today (April 2011)
Volunteer Engagement: Defining the Future of the Profession (April 2011)
Exploring the Issue of Volunteer Rights (April 2011)
Paid to Volunteer: The Monetary Consideration in Defining Volunteering (January 2011)
The Volunteer Impact Program (VIP): An Innovative Approach to Strengthen Volunteer Engagement Capacity (January 2011)
Volunteer Engagement: Defining the Future of the Profession (January 2011)
Micro-Volunteering: Quickies, Quandaries and Questions (October 2010)
Calculating the ROI of Your Volunteer Program – It’s Time to Turn Things Upside Down (October 2010)
SurveyMonkey Changed My Life: A Volunteer Manager’s Perspective (October 2010)
Settling in Overseas: The Experience of Western Volunteers in Animals Taiwan (July 2010)
Knowing When to Stop: A Personal Account of a Manager’s Efforts to Help Volunteers (July 2010)
Boomers and Beyond: 12 Best Practices Vital to Volunteer Resources in the Future (July 2010)
Knowing When to Stop: How to Develop an Organizational Process to Help Volunteers Retire (April 2010)
From the Vantage Point of a Volunteer: An Inside Look at the Winter Olympics (April 2010)
Effective Youth Engagement in Generation Y: Lessons from the Field (April 2010)
Get on Board the Pro Bono Express (January 2010)
Are We Asleep at the Wheel? A Frustrated Volunteer Manager Speaks Out (January 2010)
Using Personality Type Distinctions To Foster Better Volunteerism (January 2010)
Our Community at Work: Reinventing Port Angeles (October 2009)
Social Media and the Gift Economy: Volunteerism in the Vanguard (October 2009)
Volunteer Management Lessons Learned from an Organic Vegetable Garden (October 2009)
Volunteering in Ireland: The Good News, the Bad Economy and the Ugly Finances (July 2009)
Towards a More Cohesive Volunteerism Public Affairs Strategy: A Story, Steps and Lessons from Minnesota (July 2009)
Engaged or Disengaged: Young People's Conceptions of Volunteerism (July 2009)
The Volunteer’s Fantasies: A Challenge to the Volunteer Manager (April 2009)
An Update on Online Training Efforts and Workshops the Wired Way (April 2009)
Volunteer Experience Makes a Difference in this Job Market: How to Present Volunteer Activities on a Resume (April 2009)
Reflection on Reflection: Ivan Scheier's Think Tank Legacy (January 2009)
The People Approach to Volunteer Work Design (January 2009)
Reminiscences of Ivan from Those Who Knew Him (January 2009)
Volunteerism in Mongolia (October 2008)
Flexible Volunteering: One Size Fits All (October 2008)
CSR Partnership Brings New Rainwater Harvesting Technology and World Wide Web to Maasai Village (October 2008)
Banking on Volunteer Talents (July 2008)
Managing the Non-Volunteer Volunteer (July 2008)
The Search for Outstanding People (July 2008)
Baby Boomers in Action! An Initiative in Iowa to Recruit Baby Boomer Volunteers (April 2008)
The Wall between Faith-Based and Secular Volunteerism: Is it Time to Chip Away at the Barrier? (April 2008)
Satisfaction among Volunteer Dentists: Serving Underprivileged Elderly in Jerusalem (April 2008)
Messing It Up: How Not-For-Profits Sabotage Their Volunteer Programs (January 2008)
Transition Time: Following an Older, More Experienced Volunteer Dog (January 2008)
Deconstructing Engagement: Beyond the Buzzword (January 2008)
Tongue Fu! How to Deflect, Disarm and Defuse Verbal Conflict (October 2007)
Teens with Autism Show that Volunteering Is for Everyone (October 2007)
Brisbane's Homeless Connect Initiative (October 2007)
Sabotage Part Two: How Managers of Volunteers Diminish Their Role (July 2007)
Managing Virtual Volunteering: A Model for Decision Making (July 2007)
Maori Volunteerism from 1800 to 1900: A recognition of community services in Aotearoa/New Zealand (July 2007)
Common Misconceptions about Virtual Volunteering (April 2007)
Membership Recruitment Made Easy (April 2007)
On the Same Wave: The Story Behind Australia’s First Squad of Muslim Surf Lifesavers (April 2007)
Are You a 'Manager' or a 'Leader' of Volunteers? (January 2007)
The Language of Leadership (January 2007)
Animal Rescue: Another Heroic Volunteer Effort during Hurricane Katrina (January 2007)
Collaboration and Partnership: Using a Process to Facilitate Success (October 2006)
Emergency Management Volunteers in British Columbia, Canada (October 2006)
Generating Funds for Your Volunteer Program: The Mindset and Methods (October 2006)
Generating Corporate Brand Value through Nonprofit Organizations and Employee-Volunteer Programs (July 2006)
Working with Senior Leadership (July 2006)
Volunteering for Student Success: When Parents, Communities, and Teachers Connect (July 2006)
Practical Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (April 2006)
Volunteers and Capital Campaigns: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned (April 2006)
The Contradictions of Imposing 'Checks' on Volunteers: Questions We Need to Answer (April 2006)
The Volunteer as Leader (January 2006)
How Much Is An Hour of Volunteer Time Worth?: Various Methods to Monetize the Contributions of a Volunteer's Time (January 2006)
Today's Corporate Workplace Volunteering in Context (January 2006)
The 'T' Word in Volunteer Management: A Creative Approach to Getting Volunteers into Training (October 2005)
Highly-skilled Volunteers = High Impact Results! (October 2005)
Perspectives on Membership Development (October 2005)
From Volunteer to New Career (July 2005)
OUR Volunteer Program: The Management TEAM Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs (July 2005)
Getting Corporate Feet on the Street: Developing Employee Volunteering in South Africa (July 2005)
Communicating with Volunteers: Making the Most of Your Options (April 2005)
Reflections on Building the Profession in Australasia (April 2005)
Getting Their Attention: YouthNet's Innovative Approach to Engaging Young People in Volunteering (April 2005)
Sabotage! The Five Lethal Factors Volunteer Managers Employ to Harm Their Programs (January 2005)
Succession Planning (January 2005)
What Data Sets Can Tell Us about Volunteering (January 2005)
Volunteer Administration and the Fundraising Profession: A Modest Proposal for Collaboration (October 2004)
Hearing from Youth as Well as About Them (October 2004)
The Road Not Taken (October 2004)
Training Paid Staff to Welcome Volunteers: The Boulder County Experience (October 2004)
Invisible Histories: Reclaiming Volunteering and Voluntary Action in Australian History (July 2004)
Pioneering Project Helps Researchers Get Volunteering Right (July 2004)
Making Philanthropic Decisions Family Style (July 2004)
Reach Out to Youth - Their Way (April 2004)
Ethics and the Hydra (April 2004)
VQ Sustainable Training Scheme (April 2004)
Getting the Attention You Want from the Media (January 2004)
Bringing Hospice Volunteerism to Russia (January 2004)
Audio Interviews from the World (January 2004)
Volunteers' Most Common Accidents - and How to Avoid Them (October 2003)
Volunteering Through the Eyes and Ears of a Dedicated Dog Volunteer (October 2003)
Five Key Trends and Their Impact on the Voluntary Sector (October 2003)
Reaching Out to Volunteers with Mental Illness (October 2003)
Fighting SARS: A Hong Kong Volunteer's Story (July 2003)
Volunterrorism? (July 2003)
What's Unique about Human Resources in the Nonprofit Sector? (July 2003)
How Many Hats Do Your Board Members Wear? (July 2003)
Group Interviewing Techniques: Hitting the Bull's-Eye Every Time (April 2003)
Ten Thousand Villages: A Journey of Service (April 2003)
Think Before You Leap: Buy Success with Your Budget (April 2003)
Developing Agency Capacity to Promote and Support Family Volunteerism (January 2003)
What Are Your Volunteers Saying? (January 2003)
Historic and Cultural Roots of Fund Raising in Italy (January 2003)
‘Shape Your Future’ – A Museum Helps Volunteers Help Themselves (October 2002)
Emerging Trends and Issues in Volunteerism and Volunteer Program Management (October 2002)
Integrity - The Guidepost to Volunteer Relationships (October 2002)
'O Canada' - The Listening Behind the Canada Volunteerism Initiative (July 2002)
Time is Money: Time Dollars and the Money is Value Metaphor (July 2002)
A Poetry of Volunteering? (July 2002)
Mandated Service - The Future of Volunteering? (July 2002)
Go on, Speak Up! Speak Out! (April 2002)
"They Hardly Ever Do the Hula in El Paso" Some Reflections on True Goal Retrieval (April 2002)
Can We Use a "New Philanthropy" Approach to Recruit Volunteers? (April 2002)
The Birth of the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration: A New Direction for Professional Organizations in Our Field (January 2002)
Volunteer Management: An Overlooked Strategy in Improving the Elections Process (January 2002)
Widening Our Horizons (January 2002)
Audio Interview with David Brettell (October 2001)
The Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games Volunteer Program (October 2001)
Wiring Friendships Across Time, Space, and Age: An Evaluation Of Intergenerational Friendships Created Online (October 2001)
Beyond Competencies (October 2001)
The Self-Employed Volunteer (October 2001)
"Diversity Continuum: Indicators of Success" (July 2001)
"Getting Involved: The Home Office's Research on the Active Community in England and Wales" (July 2001)
Pathways to Change: Linking Service to Sustainable Change (July 2001)
Volunteering Is SEXY (July 2001)
The Beatles Help You Thank Volunteers: Three Song Parodies (July 2001)
Becoming Friends: How Two Former Competitors Merged (April 2001)
What Are Your Hopes for the Impact of the IYV in Your Country? (April 2001)
Workshops the Wired Way (April 2001)
Mapping Our Field: What Is Volunteer Management at the Start of the 21st Century? (January 2001)
"How a Board of Directors Can Demonstrate Support for Volunteer Development" (January 2001)
Relapse Into Volunteerism: An Unsuccessful Attempt to Resign From the Field (January 2001)
A User's Guide to On-line Volunteer Recruitment Sites (January 2001)
Volunteer Vacationers and What Research Can Tell Us About Them (January 2001)
It's Never Over: Ongoing Screening of Volunteers and Paid Staff (October 2000)
Researching Volunteering in England: The Institute for Volunteering Research (October 2000)
Show Me the Volunteerism (And I'll Show You the Money) (October 2000)
Volunteer Retention and Feelings of Connection (October 2000)
Finding Our Profession (October 2000)