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Centers Specializing in Topics Related to Volunteering
Please Note: Many of the associations that serve the volunteer management community in specialized settings also have information on special issues. Also see the online library for many links to all sorts of worthwhile Web sites, by topic.
Activism
Creative
Resourcing Network
http://www.citizenbase.org
Offers civil society activists and social entrepreneurs strategies
in volunteer management, recruitment and mobilization. Offers information,
ideas and dialogue with practitioners from around the world.
Boards of Directors
BoardSource
http://www.boardsource.org
Focused entirely on information for nonprofit boards of directors.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility
News and Resources http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/index.html
Rresources for people determined to act as change agents within
their business for corporate social responsibility/corporate citizenship,
including employee volunteering.
Civil Society
Civitas: Institute
for the Study of Civil Society
http://www.civitas.org.uk
London-based independent
research institute devoted to
deepening public understanding of the legal, institutional and moral
framework that makes a free and democratic society possible.
Education and Mentoring
International
Telementor Program
http://www.telementor.org/
Match IT professionals in online tutoring/mentoring of school students.
National Mentoring Partnership
Informaiton on starting and running a mentor program.
Tutor-Mentor
Connection
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
Focuses on tutoring/mentoring/school-to-work programs offered primarily in non-school hours and settings. Focuses on Chicago program but offers lots of general advice, etc.
Justice-related
National Youth Court Center
http://www.youthcourt.net/content/view/66/42/
Online training for adults and teens volunteering for youth courts.
Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS)
http://www.policevolunteers.org
Resources for both police officers and volunteers.
Legal/Insurance
Nonprofit Risk
Management Center
http://www.nonprofitrisk.org
15 N. King St., Suite 203
Leesburg, VA 20176
Tel: 202-785-3891
Fax: 703-443-1990
Volunteers Insurance
Service
http://www.cimaworld.com/htdocs/volunteers.cfm
Most established American insurance program for volunteers.
National Service
PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement) http://www.pacefunders.org/index.html
A community of grantmakers and donors committed to strengthening democracy by using the power, influence and resources of philanthropy to open pathways to participation.
National Service Resource Center
http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/
Comprehensive site with materials for all the streams of national service.
Nonprofit Management Support
List of International Centers http://www.delawarenonprofit.org/infocentral/aboutnonprof.php
Excellent directory of worldwide nonprofit management support centers, compiled by the Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies.
Philanthropy
Independent Sector
http://www.independentsector.org/
1200 Eighteenth Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-467-6100; For publications orders: 202-467-6110
Fax: 202-467-6101
Legislative Advocacy, Newsletters, Research on giving and volunteering, Annual Conference in October
Virtual Volunteering
Online Volunteering
http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/
Devoted to encouraging online service on behalf of the developing world (run by United Nations Volunteers).
Service-Leader.org
http://www.serviceleader.org/new/virtual/
Virtual volunteering is volunteer work done by real people,
but in cyberspace. For example, volunteers provide technical assistance
via e-mail or use cyber technology to tutor students or "visit"
the homebound.
Youth
Youth Service
America
http://www.ysa.org/
Focus on national service and other youth service opportunities.
6/26/2008
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