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Diversity/Inclusion

Includes information on racial, ethnic, sexual, and cultural diversity, as well as physical and mental disabilities.

Books on this topic

Articles and book excerpts on this topic:

Free electronic books on this topic:

A Matter of Survival:  Volunteering By, In, and With Low-Income Communities
Points of Light Foundation has made this 36-page report from 2000 available free on their site.

Can Do! Volunteering:  A Guide to Including Young Disabled People as Volunteers
72-page guide from UK's leading services for people with disabilities, Leonard Chesire and Scope (2006).  Can also download the guide in sections at http://www.can-do-volunteering.org.

Collective Leadership Framework
A workbook designed to familiarize community organizers with the process of developing collective leadership across the traditional boundaries of race, class, gender and culture. A publication of the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change project.

Diverse Communities, Active Lives
A comprehensive guide about volunteering and community participation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, from Beyond Barriers in Scotland.

Inclusion: Creating an Inclusive Environment
12-chapter handbook (+ 4 appendices) for the inclusion of people with disabilities from the National Service Resource Center (US).  Although written for national and community service programs, the material is adaptable to any setting, discussing outreach, recruitment, selection, and retention of participants with disabilities. Download entire manual in one PDF or as 16 PDF sections.

Mahi Aroha: Maori Perspectives on Volunteering and Cultural Obligations 

from the New Zealand Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (61 page PDF, 2007) 

Recruiting and Supporting Latino Volunteers
by Beverly Hobbs, 4-H Youth Specialist, Oregon State University.  PDF format.

Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Guide Based on Exploratory Research (pdf file)
Assesses factors that increase male volunteering in service programs and offers concrete approaches to overcoming barriers and designing programs that are attractive to males.

SALTO's Inclusion for ALL Youth Work Booklets
Over a dozen practical, free manuals to support (international) Inclusion Projects for socially excluded young people, from SALTO-YOUTH (Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities within the European YOUTH programme).

Thinking about Diversity and Equality: A Guide for the Voluntary Sector
by Adam May, 22-page Word Document, 2005

Turn Your Organisation into a Volunteer Magnet, 2nd ed.

Edited by Andy Fryar, Rob Jackson, and Fraser Dyer (2007, 204 pp.)

Essays from contributing volunteer managers around the world on attracting the best and most diverse volunteers and then working with them successfully.

Web sites with useful articles on this topic:

African-American Philanthropy: A Bibliography and Resource List
http://fdncenter.org/getstarted/topical/african.html
Excellent resources compiled by the Foundation Center.

Blindstorming Q&A
http://www.esight.org/blindstorm_view.cfm
Discussion forum of eSight, in which people with visual impairments respond to questions about workplace issues, including volunteering. 

Creating Accessibility

http://volunteer.ca/en/volunteercanada/evolution/June-July/general-english#3

Volunteer Canada offers tips and model programs for developing inclusive environments for volunteers with physical and cognitive disabilities.

Diversity Links
http://www.mcf.org/mcf/resource/diversitylinks.htm
The Minnesota Council on Foundations has compiled links to Web sites and resources for philanthropy by diverse communities and cultures, including African-Americans, American Indians, Asian/Pacific Island Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Lesbians & Gays, the Disability Community, and others.

Diversity Module of the VM3 Online Learning Site

http://www.voluntarymatters3.org/diversity/introduction/index.html
Walk through of the issues in gaining volunteer diversity (based on The Media Trust's television series in the UK), with case studies, checklists, activities, and resources.

Diversity Trends – free articles

http://www.diversitytrends.com/free_diversity_articles/index.html

Trainer/consultant Tracy Brown (often speaks at volunteering conferences) offers practical information for dealing with diversity, as well as a free weekly e-mail “diversity toolkit tune up.”

LGBT Consortium (UK)

http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/c1/activities/involved/resources_lgbt.php

Have created an entire Web area with free downloadable resources called collectively: Volunteering on a Shoestring (not another toolkit!). Written in 2008 for the LGBT community but applicable to any setting, especially those at the grassroots level. Includes PDF guides, templates and case studies.

Mind the Gap
http://mindthegap.timebank.org.uk/
A new (2004) London-wide campaign to raise awareness among black and minority ethnic communities about how to volunteer as well as the benefits of giving time - for the individual, local communities and society as a whole. 

SALTO Training Toolbox
http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/
Large number of group training exercises on all aspects of diversity and youth action from.

Scope’s Inclusive Volunteering Programme

http://www.scope.org.uk/support/volunteer/

Scope is an activist disability organization in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy, but with the broader aim “that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.” The Inclusive Volunteer Programme is a special project to expand volunteer opportunities for people with disabilities.

Service-Learning Diversity/Equity Project http://www.nylc.org/inaction_init.cfm?oid=3694
The National Youth Leadership Council's efforts at examining diversity in service-learning programs, with several excellent downloadable reports and articles of relevance to any setting or type of volunteer work.

Stronger Together:  Recruiting and Working with Ethnocultural Volunteers
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/heritage/ComPartnE/Strongr1.htm
Online manual by the Central Volunteer Bureau of Ottawa-Carleton (Canada) about how to make volunteer programs attractive and accessible to ethnic minority volunteers, based on input from program managers with experience.

For information on this topic specifically relating to the Australasian region please visit our friends at OzVPM :

http://www.ozvpm.com/resourcebank/resource_diversity.htm

4/04/08

 

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Volunteering by People with Disabilities
A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people with disabilities in volunteer work.

Children as Volunteers
How to integrate volunteers under the age of 14 into an existing adult volunteer program.

Volunteering by Unemployed People
A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people who are unemployed in volunteer work .

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