Engage Library

End Slavery at Liberty and Freedom
In 1990, the Bethlehem Area School District in Bethlehem, PA., decided that every public high school student would perform 60 hours of unpaid community service during high school. The District gave students an open-ended list of approved organizations where they could perform…
Phyllis Walsh
Voices from the Past
July 2009
New Directions in Employer-Supported Volunteering - Part 2
Over the last few years, we have seen employer-supported volunteering grow into a vital element of the volunteerism field around the world. More recently, we’ve begun to see a shift from the so-called “team challenge” approach to volunteering (where teams of employees perform a…
Rob Jackson
Keyboard Roundtables
July 2009
Volunteering Works
Readers of e-Volunteerism and users of the Web site often want to find evidence to support the impact of volunteering. In short, does volunteering work? Finding evidence to support volunteering can be tricky, for all sorts of reasons. This edition of Research to Practice looks…
Steven Howlett
Research to Practice
July 2009
Volunteering Through the Workplace
One of the fastest growing and most significant new ways of volunteering in the past 20 years has been volunteering through one’s workplace. Major corporations have created extensive programs to encourage and enable their employees to volunteer and this form of business social…
Steve McCurley
Along the Web
July 2009
Using Social Media in Your Volunteer Engagement Strategy
The Internet increasingly provides a means for nonprofits and government organizations to engage with people in their circles of influence. More and more organizations are blogging and posting YouTube videos and, more importantly, a great many organizations are asking their…
Joshua Fixler
Training Designs
July 2009
Gotta Serve Somebody
Over the years we’ve seen an impressive array of attempts to “re-conceptualize” volunteering, at least to re-name it.  Last fall, the United States saw a flurry of special events, legislative proposals and media attention focused on the subject of “service.” It was brought to a…
Steve McCurley and Susan J. Ellis
Points of View
July 2009
Volunteering in Ireland: The Good News, the Bad Economy and the Ugly Finances
How does the depressed global economy translate into something positive for volunteering? In this e-Volunteerism feature, Marzia Baldassari, a member of the Volunteering Ireland Team and Coordinator of the Dublin City North Volunteer Centre, answers this question. With Ireland…
Marzia Baldassari
Feature Articles
July 2009
Towards a More Cohesive Volunteerism Public Affairs Strategy: A Story, Steps and Lessons from Minnesota
Paula J. Beugen, an active leader in the field of volunteerism and volunteer resources management for more than three decades, has observed legislation passed in her home state of Minnesota from the 1980s to the present. In this e-Volunteerism feature, Beugen asks why the needs…
Paula J. Beugen
Feature Articles
July 2009
Engaged or Disengaged: Young People's Conceptions of Volunteerism
The civic disengagement of youth has been a notable concern for policy makers and academics in Canada and around the world. In fact, today’s young people have been often described as the “civic deficit” generation, resulting in calls for new programs in civic education and…
Ottilia Chareka
Feature Articles
July 2009

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