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

http://www.mentoring.org

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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