Inclusive volunteering
Useful resources to help you develop inclusive volunteering programs
Become a Professional Leader of Volunteers
A Continuous Professional Development program to improve your knowledge, skills and future employability
Looking after the mental health of volunteers
Relevant resources, guides, appraisals and action plans to help manage and protect the mental health and well-being of volunteers
Recruiting volunteers
See useful guides, handbook, templates and resources to help you with all stages of the recruitment process
Re-engaging volunteers during COVID-19
Useful resources, guides, and checklists on how to safely re-engage volunteers
Tools, templates and checklists
Find useful tools, templates or checklists to help make your volunteer management practice easier
The Volunteering Resource Hub, an initiative of Volunteering Australia, brings together useful, evidence-based and current best practice resources, tools, research and information to support effective volunteer management.
Getting started?
Read our guide to Volunteer Management
This guide is to help you navigate the hub, highlighting key resources and providing a brief overview of how to effectively engage, manage and recognise volunteers.
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Explore the Resource Hub
We have over 350 relevant, useful and accessible resources, including policies, procedures, tools, videos, templates, guides and useful research and information, to assist with all stages of managing volunteers.
Want to be a volunteer?
Visit the GoVolunteer website to find out about opportunities near you.
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Featured resources
Responding to a Pandemic
A comprehensive guide on volunteer involvement during a pandemic.
Author: Volunteering Australia, Volunteering Queensland
State of Volunteering in Victoria 2020
This report showcases the characteristics and the social, cultural and economic value of volunteering in Victoria.
Author: Volunteering Victoria, Institute of Project Management, Victoria State Government
Guide to Onboarding
A comprehensive guide covering planning, induction, training and evaluation of volunteers, including useful policies, procedures, schedules, checklists and templates.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Policies and Procedures Handbook
A guide for not-for-profit organisations, this resource covers policies and procedures that apply to both volunteers and employees.
Author: Volunteering WA
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