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A comprehensive guide to the legal obligations an organisation has for its volunteers. This six part guide includes: 1. Introduction and overview 2. Volunteer, employee or independent contractor? 3. Recruiting, inducting, managing and ending the volunteer relationship 4. Volunteer safety with annexures 5. Workplace behaviour 6. Other legal issues relevant to volunteers
Author: Not-for-Profit Law, Justice Connect
A review paper on local volunteering groups.
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
A webpage providing a suit of resources for managers of volunteers in sporting.
Author: Clearinghouse for Sport
A guide on what to consider when setting out organisational commitments to volunteer involvement. This resource includes a self-assessment checklist.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A guide to the glossary of terms and conditions widely used in the volunteering sector.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A guide on how to build connections and build capacity in a community organisation, including in areas of marketing and fundraising.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
How to set up a community group, including governance, management, risk management and strategic planning.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide on how to effectively run a community group.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide on how to start a community group.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide on how to effectively work with volunteers as part of a community group.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide to complaint handling, providing example policies and procedures.
Author: Volunteering Australia
An overview of the Deloitte Governance Framework, looking at Board involvement in strategic, risk, talent, governance, integrity and performance oversight.
Author: Deloitte
Tips on commonly made mistakes when organising a fundraising event.
Author: Aon
An example of an inclusion statement at an organisational level.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Research into business giving through corporate volunteering, payroll giving and community sponsorships.
Author: Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Australia
Research into philanthropic giving, identifying trends and making predictions of the future.
Author: Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Australia
A guide providing tools and templates to use in the capacity building of small community groups, relating to the sustainability of the group and enhancing group outcomes.
Author: Volunteering Queensland, Queensland University of Technology
Information on how to including the contirbution of volunteers into the narrative and budgeting of grant applications.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Volunteering Australia's National Steering Committee's Issues Paper relating to the review of the definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A quick guide to publicly available information about volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
An overview of the key statistics on volunteering in Australia, derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistic's 2019 General Social Survey.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A snapshot of key facts and statistics about volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Research on volunteer leaders, with the purpose of better understanding how to strengthen and support volunteer leadership.
Author: Ministerial Council for Volunteers, Victoria State Government
A workbook to support the development of a more inclusive organisation.
Author: VolunteeringACT
A leadership and governance resource for small voluntary organisations and groups.
Author: Volunteering Queensland, Queensland University of Technology
A comprehensive guide to the legal obligations an organisation has for its volunteers. This six part guide includes: 1. Introduction and overview 2. Volunteer, employee or independent contractor? 3. Recruiting, inducting, managing and ending the volunteer relationship 4. Volunteer safety with annexures 5. Workplace behaviour 6. Other legal issues relevant to volunteers
Author: Not-for-Profit Law, Justice Connect
Information around formal legal structures for volunteering groups.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
Volunteering Australia worked in partnership with the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Volunteering Australia's position statements of volunteering related issues.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A comprehensive guide on how to report on social outcomes and their impact.
Author: The Centre for Social Impact
Information on the review of the definition of volunteering undertaken in 2013-2015.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Identifies the key roles of community leaders, and what it means to be an effective community leader.
Author: Volunteering Queensland, Queensland University of Technology
Information provided by the Fair Work Ombudsman on unpaid work.
Author: Fair Work Ombudsman, Australian Government
Research and key statistics on the impact of COVID-19 on volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
An FAQ Document that was released alongside the launch of the revised 2015 Volunteering Australia definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
An FAQ document relating to Volunteering Australia's definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A brief introduction to organisations on involving volunteers.
Author: Volunteer Ireland
A guide on how to write a code of conduct.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A resource on the importance of policies and procedures and what policies and procedures an organisation may require.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A brief guide to the key types of scams that charities and not for profit organisation's may be susceptible to.
Author: Aon
Volunteering Resource Hub is an initiative of Volunteering Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.