Volunteering
Volunteering

Author: Jean Rawitt

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1538129760

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Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers provides a complete guide to the world of volunteerism. It shows you how to become engaged in what will be among the most gratifying and worthwhile experiences of your life. In this book you’ll learn why volunteerism is so important both to volunteers themselves and to those they serve and explore different types of volunteer opportunities and how to find and secure a rewarding volunteer placement. With advice from professionals and first-hand accounts from teen volunteers, including a fifteen-year-old girl who started a foundation that now helps hundreds of new parents, this book will help you make the most of your volunteer experience. You will learn how to research volunteer opportunities what to expect from the application, interview, and orientation process how to be a successful volunteer how to handle unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations and how to ask for help, and how you can use what you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities. With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

Vibrant Volunteers
Vibrant Volunteers

Author: Audrina Rose

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781671637474

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This simple yet handy community service and volunteering chart record book is perfect for those who do volunteering, community service and want to give something back to the community. Grab now this chart logbook and log the hours in and out, the job description and signature of approval. With over 100 pages you can use this to chart all your volunteering hours. Grab yours now and enjoy to volunteer!

Vibrant Volunteers
Vibrant Volunteers

Author: Teddy's Creations

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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If you are part of a volunteer group, volunteering agency or if you volunteer on your own within institutions, schools, hospitals and for various causes then use this time logbook and diary to time your hours, how long you spent and where you volunteered. All volunteers will love this gift diary, be organized and see where you volunteer more by logging your volunteer sessions. Click on the publisher name to see more of our awesome & creative journals, lined notebooks and notepads. Check back often because we load new designs frequently

The Philosopher Volunteer
The Philosopher Volunteer

Author: Robin Abraham

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1947498274

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The Philosopher Volunteer is an adaptation of Plato’s famous ‘Philosopher King’ ideology. Plato wanted society to be ruled by a wise and learned philosopher king. It is tough to argue with Plato, but this book aims to establish that it is easier to create an alternative, the philosopher volunteer. The world faces four mega crises: § Wealth inequality. § Depletion of natural resources. § Overpopulation. § Environmental degradation. The answer to these mega crises is the philosopher volunteer. Twenty-first century philosophy must integrate ancient Indian philosophy, classical Greek philosophy and the philosophy of empirical science. This book seeks to argue why that is the case.

The Volunteer Management Handbook
The Volunteer Management Handbook

Author: Tracy D. Connors

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0470604530

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Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting—and keeping—an active and effective volunteer program Drawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining an active and effective volunteer program. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers. Now covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers, policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting, interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers, and much more Up-to-date, practical guidance for the major areas of volunteer leadership and management Explores volunteers and the law: liabilities, immunities, and responsibilities Designed to help nonprofit organizations survive and thrive, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is an indispensable reference that is unsurpassed in both the breadth and depth of its coverage.

Success with Library Volunteers
Success with Library Volunteers

Author: Leslie Edmonds Holt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1610690494

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Covering principles, practical guidelines, and best practices for establishing and operating a successful library volunteer program in any type of library, this is a must-have resource for the 21st-century librarian. In these tough economic times, librarians must maximize the potential of their volunteer programs. This innovative guide not only provides readers with the practical information they need to recruit, manage, and retain effective volunteers, but also demonstrates how to create a dynamic volunteer program—one that offers purposeful work and emphasizes rewards rather than rules and forms. Illustrated by best practices, this book also offers practical guidelines for evaluating the success of a volunteer program—in terms of the library's benefit, and in terms of the experience from the volunteer's point of view.

Love Our Cities
Love Our Cities

Author: Jeff Pishney

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1636980147

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Love Our Cities operates from a simple idea: come alongside those who want to make a difference in their cities so they can come alongside individuals in their communities to make things better. Founding members of the nonprofit organization Love Our Cities, Jeff Pishney and Eric Jung have seen how a city-wide volunteer day can catalyze community improvement—by engaging individuals with the city they inhabit. Each chapter of Love Our Cities addresses their method behind the madness, why it works, and the practical next steps that anyone can use to kick off city-wide volunteer efforts. Jeff Pishney and Eric Jung understand that the best way to support a community is to meet the specific needs of that area. By using their past experiences investing in Modesto and other cities, they provide a clear, actionable approach to enact city-wide change. Their volunteer days have been uniquely successful in connecting ongoing initiatives, building networks, and growing community buy-in for programs and organizations already on the ground. Their message in Love Our Cities is broken into four parts: Part One depicts their journey from the initial Love Modesto efforts in 2009 to the 100-some cities participating in their Love Our Cities network in 2020 Part Two explains at the elements that are necessary to know prior to any community engagement, in order to create a solid foundation for long-term success Part Three examines the “nuts and bolts” of running a city-wide volunteer day Part Four takes it to the next level—describing how successful city-wide volunteer days have changed the game and outlining what a year-round city movement might look like By shining a spotlight on the cities they’ve partnered with over the years, Jeff Pishney and Eric Jung hope that their community-minded approach in Love Our Cities encourages readers to dream about their own city’s potential—and how they can make a difference.

Volunteers
Volunteers

Author: Marc A. Musick

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2007-11-28

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 0253116864

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Who tends to volunteer and why? What causes attract certain types of volunteers? What motivates people to volunteer? How can volunteers be persuaded to continue their service? Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusing on individuals' subjective states, their available resources, and the influence of gender and race. In a section on social context, they reveal how volunteer work is influenced by family relationships and obligations through the impact of schools, churches, and communities. They consider cross-national differences in volunteering and historical trends, and close with consideration of the research on the organization of volunteer work and the consequences of volunteering for the volunteer.

Volunteering for a Cause
Volunteering for a Cause

Author: Silvia Marina Arrom

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 082635629X

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This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. With thousands of volunteers, these lay groups not only survived the liberal reforms of the mid-nineteenth century but thrived, offering educational, medical, and other services to hundreds of thousands of poor people. Arrom stresses the prominence of women among the volunteers, showing the many ways that Catholicism promoted Mexican modernization rather than being an obstacle to it. Moreover, by reinserting religion into public life, these organizations defied the secularizing policies of the Mexican government. By comparing the male and female organizations collectively, the work shows that the relationship between gender, faith, and charity was much more complicated than is usually believed, with devout men and women supporting the Catholic project in complementary ways.