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Volunteer Management Resources & Helpful Links

Idealist’s Volunteer Management Resource Center: Check out this wonderful addition to the Idealist site for a wide-range of resources, tools and networking opportunities. Information available includes: current research, best practices, program tools and other ideas.

Energize, Inc.: Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism. This website provides a wealth of resources to volunteer managers and anyone interested in learning more about volunteerism. Library area with articles and complete electronic books available for free; annotated links to website containing information on everything from statistics on volunteering to service in specific settings.

World Volunteer Web: United Nations Volunteers has created this comprehensive site offering continuing news of worldwide volunteer efforts, research reports and links to international volunteer resources.

CyberVPM: CyberVPM is the international discussion group for volunteer managers. Debate the topic of the moment, share resources, get answers to your volunteer management questions and find a community of support for those challenges and triumphs unique to volunteer management.

Service Leader: Wide range of information on volunteer management and virtual volunteering from the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Betty Stallings: Download free training designs and icebreakers.

Coyote Communications:  Great listing on sources of volunteer management software.

Best Practice Toolbox: The UPS Foundation created this Best Practices Toolbox to help nonprofit organizations exchange successful practices and tools. UPS wants to share the best strategies and models available, and encourage the replication of them throughout the nonprofit community. Find tools designed to more effectively manage volunteers and produce measurable results for communities in need.

Best Practices for Developing a Volunteer Program: Online, ten-section guide from the Maryland Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism, produced by seasoned practitioners from the volunteer management field. Through their years of experience, useful lessons have been learned and are now being shared to help you develop a successful volunteer program. This manual provides an outline of how your colleagues throughout the state of Maryland have developed their volunteer programs.

Association of Volunteer Resources Management: AVRM incorporated on March 5, 2007 and is taking steps to become an official tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. The primary goals of the new association will be to support and serve the professionals who work in volunteer resources management (VRM) through advocacy, educational programming and the provision of resources that meet the needs of the diverse field of VRM.

Publications:

Chronicle of Philanthropy: The newspaper of the nonprofit world.

e-Volunteerism: Electronic journal containing numerous articles that cater to volunteer leaders/managers who want to go beyond the mundane in the volunteerism field.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly: Academic journal of research in the volunteer sector. Published by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

Volunteer Leadership: Quarterly journal covering many facets of volunteering and community service. Published by the Points of Light Foundation.

Volunteer Today: The Electronic Gazette for Volunteerism. Monthly updates on the topics of management, supervision, recruitment and training. Published by Macduff Bunt Associates.

Charity Channel: Volunteer Management Review e-newsletter.
 
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