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Also see, Books and e-Volunteerism articles on this topic
Articles and book excerpts on this subject
- America’s Voluntary Spirit by Brian O’Connell for USIA (1998)
- Corporate Citizenship: A Tax in Disguise? by Richard Teather, challenging the philosophy behind the practice.
- The Emergence of Female Activism in US History, from the book Natural Allies
- The History of Volunteer Involvement in Seven Stages, by Susan J. Ellis from The NonProfit Times
- In Frontier Days: From good neighbours to the earliest voluntary organizations -- brief essay on Canadian volunteering history
- The
Language of Volunteering - A Time for Vigilance, by
Bill Gunyon - Nonprofit Themes in Fiction, list of novels incorporating philanthropy and service in their content (Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center site)
- The Past Is Prologue, from the book By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition, by Susan J. Ellis and Katherine H. Campbell (2005)
- Professional Ethics in Volunteer Administration, originally developed by the former Association for Volunteer Administration and kept current by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (http://www.cvacert.org).
- Rethinking Volunteer Engagement, from Volunteer Canada
- "A Role Beyond Service," keynote speech by Wendy Puriefoy at the 2004 Alliance for Nonprofit Management conference, challenging organizations to mobilize in the face of current events
- Servi-Tourism, by Ann Hulbert for Slate
- Understanding Service: Words in the Context of History and Culture (free pdf file), multi-cultural study of the words used for "service," from the Global Service Institute
- Virtuous Giving, from Virtuous Giving
- Volunteering:
The Human Face of Democracy, by Jennifer Wilkinson and Michael
Bittman, Social Policy Research Centre,
University of New South Wales, Australia (2002, PDF) - Volunteering: Noble Gesture or the Logic of Necessity?, detailed book review of Volunteers and Volunteering, highlighting key issues in Australia and elsewhere.
Free electronic books on this subject:
A History of Nonprofit Boards in the United States
30-page PDF by Peter Dobkin Hall (BoardSource, 2003)
Web sites with useful information on this subject
"Anti" Volunteerism
Positions and Arguments
Collected by the Ayn Rand Institute:
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5404
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5319
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5161
Codes of Ethics
http://philanthropy.com/jobs/2004/06/24/20040624-351162.htm
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
has compiled this list of online resources for creating codes of
ethics.
Ethics Q&A Archives – “Doing Good Right”
http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/archive/aeth.html
From CharityVillage NewsWeek (Canada), this archive of questions and answers to ethical questions by Jane Garthson focuses on sticky issues confronted by nonprofit boards.
The Faces of Volunteering
http://www.wesleymission.org.au/
publications/volunteers/default.asp
Multi-section report by
the Wesley Mission in Australia for International Year of Volunteers
2001 to generate increased awareness of the achievements of past
and present volunteers and highlight the future potential of volunteering.
Famous and Celebrity
Philanthropists
http://foundationcenter.org/yip/youth_celebrity.html
Brief bio notes and links
on the Youth in Philanthropy site of The Foundation Center.
Helping the
Poor: Friendly visiting, dole charities and dole queues
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs16.pdf
155-page PDF by Robert
Whelan for Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London,
2001, examining the roots of organized charity in England from the
"volunteer person of leisure" to paid social workers.
Historical Sketches,
Essays and Pamphletshttp://indiamond.ulib.iupui.edu/PRO
Archival material from
the IUPUI University Library's Philanthropy Resources Online collection.
Project Volunteer.cz
http://www.volunteer.cz/#
The English-language site
of the volunteer resource center in the Czech Republic on which
there are several provocative articles about the meaning of volunteering
in socialist and formerly-communist countries.
Schools of
Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs19.pdf
70-page PDF by Frank Prochaska
for Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London, 2002,
thoughtfully examining the history of voluntary collective action
in Britain versus the rise of the welfare state.
Voluntary Action
History Society
http://www.vahs.org.uk/?page_id=7
Series of papers from
this UK-based association for the historical analysis of voluntary
action and the history of charitable and voluntary organizations.
Relevant Hot Topic essays
- The Moral Obligation of Volunteer Recruitment Promises - Oct '07
- Together We Stand: Volunteers and Volunteer Resource Managers Connected - Dec '06
- Encouraging Entrepreneurial Volunteering - Nov '06
- The Implications of History - Jan '06
- War and Volunteers: History Repeats Itself - Apr '03
- Making an Impact When You Spend Money - Feb '03
- The World According to Volunteer Experience - Mar '02
- Moving on from 2001 - Jan '02
- A Volunteerism Perspective on the Days after the 11th of September - Oct '01
- Money is No Object - May '01
- Purity and Reality: For-Profit Consulting in Volunteerism - Mar '01
- On Being a Dream-Catcher - Dec '00
- A Proposal for IYV2001: The Look Back to Look Ahead Project - Oct '00
- Volunteering in For-Profit Settings: Exploitation or Value Added? - Feb '00
- Philanthropy, Civic Engagement, and the Lessons of Volunteering - Oct '99
- Lessening Social Exclusion through Volunteering - April '99
- The Money Factor in Volunteer Management - Mar '99
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