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| Book Review: The Manager’s Guide to Program Evaluation: Planning, Contracting, and Managing for Useful Results | Reviewed by Amy Schultz, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA
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| Book Review: The One Thing You Need to Know (About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success) | Reviewed by Harriett C. Edwards, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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| Declining Profit Margin: When Volunteers Cost More Than They Return - Linda L. Graff | The voluntary sector has approached the engagement of volunteer resources in a largely haphazard manner. Organization leaders, service planners, and funders have failed to fully understand, appreciate, and accurately assess the value of volunteer involvement. As a result, some volunteer positions are probably returning less or little more than they cost to sustain. More importantly, a plethora of new opportunities could be created by those who are open to new ways of engaging volunteer talents. The concept of profit margin is offered as a mechanism for beginning to conceptualize the relative costs and returns of volunteer positions. Organizations are urged to undertake a systematic review of where they engage volunteers and consider volunteer involvement as an important human resource asset early in organizational and service planning cycles. The cost-benefit analysis implied by the concept of a profit margin may reveal new volunteer opportunities that return great value for reasonable input costs.
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| Declining Profit Margin: When Volunteers Cost More Than They Return - Linda L. Graff | The voluntary sector has approached the engagement of volunteer resources in a largely haphazard manner. Organization leaders, service planners, and funders have failed to fully understand, appreciate, and accurately assess the value of volunteer involvement. As a result, some volunteer positions are probably returning less or little more than they cost to sustain. More importantly, a plethora of new opportunities could be created by those who are open to new ways of engaging volunteer talents. The concept of profit margin is offered as a mechanism for beginning to conceptualize the relative costs and returns of volunteer positions. Organizations are urged to undertake a systematic review of where they engage volunteers and consider volunteer involvement as an important human resource asset early in organizational and service planning cycles. The cost-benefit analysis implied by the concept of a profit margin may reveal new volunteer opportunities that return great value for reasonable input costs.
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| Dedication of Volume XXIV: On the Shoulders of a Giant: A Dedication to Mary Merrill |
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| From Motivation to Action Through Volunteer-Friendly Organizations | Kenn Allen, Ed.D., Washington, DC, USA
In excerpted remarks to delegates to the 2005 Asia-Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference of IAVE, The International Association for Volunteer Efforts, in Hong Kong, the author suggests three “myths,” three “truths,” and six leadership “sins” about volunteering. He encourages managers of volunteers to move toward “Volunteer-Friendly Organizations” by embracing four basic concepts.
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| From Motivation to Action Through Volunteer-Friendly Organizations | Kenn Allen, Ed.D., Washington, DC, USA
In excerpted remarks to delegates to the 2005 Asia-Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference of IAVE, The International Association for Volunteer Efforts, in Hong Kong, the author suggests three “myths,” three “truths,” and six leadership “sins” about volunteering. He encourages managers of volunteers to move toward “Volunteer-Friendly Organizations” by embracing four basic concepts.
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| Global Trends and the Challenges for Volunteerism - Mary V. Merrill | Individual countries have unique challenges and issues regarding volunteerism but there are also global trends and patterns that can be discerned. Exploring multinational patterns of civic engagement increases opportunities for identifying worldwide patterns and societal trends affecting volunteerism. Identifying and understanding these trends help government leaders and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) develop common approaches to global issues while creating models that strengthen volunteer efforts worldwide.
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| Strengthening Civil Society Through Volunteerism | Dilfuza Bahrieva, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
As a participant in the Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program funded by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, the author studied the activities of over 25 organizations in the United States to gain an understanding of the role of volunteerism for creating an active civil society. This paper contains a summary of the observations of formalized volunteering in the United States and recommendations for strengthening volunteerism in her native country, Uzbekistan.
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| Trends and Transitions |
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| Volunteerism: The Unfinished Miracle (Keynote Address to the 10th IAVE Asia Pacific Conference) | George Weber, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
In a keynote address to delegates to the 2005 Asia-Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference of IAVE, The International Association for Volunteer Efforts, in Hong Kong, the author advocates that volunteerism is an “unfinished miracle” embracing a social spirit “as old as human need and compassion” that is still “bringing new perspectives in community life and development worldwide.”
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