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A guide on how to build an inclusive volunteering role, focusing on overseas volunteers, cultural awareness, communication styles, gender, and religion.
Author: Volunteering WA, Fran Robinson
A comprehensive list of ways to recognise volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A guide on how to build an inclusive volunteering role, focusing on overseas volunteers, cultural awareness, communication styles, gender, and religion.
Author: Volunteering WA, Fran Robinson
A list of tips on how to involve and support volunteers living with hearing loss or deafness.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, Action on Hearing Loss Scotland
A guide on how to adapt volunteering roles to be more inclusive of people living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A guide on how to involve older volunteers living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A guide on how to facilitate inclusive volunteering in an organisation. This resource provides practical tools and tips.
Author: VolunteeringACT
A list of tips on how to involve and support volunteers living with a disability.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, Glasgow Disability Alliance
Information on how to create an inclusive volunteering environment, including information on how to complete an inclusion review.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
An overview of what discrimination is and the types of discrimination that may occur.
Author: Volunteering WA
A guide on how to develop a Disability Action Plan. This resource is accompanied by Disability Action Plan Templates.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A template to create a Disability Action Plan Template. Note: This resource is accompanied by the Disability Action Plan resource.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Communication considerations when working with volunteers living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Legal information on involving young volunteers.
Author: Justice Connect, Not-for-Profit Law
A detailed guide on how to engage millenial volunteers, covering role design, recruitment strategies, engagement strategies and supporting change in an organisation. This guide also includes templates.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A brief guide on key considerations when involving younger volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
An example of an inclusion statement at an organisational level.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A research report on the study of giving and volunteering in cultural and linguistically diverse and indigenous communities.
Author: Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia (CIRCA)
A template questionnaire to support the inclusive involvement of volunteers. This template covers both identifying the needs of volunteers and receiving feedback on the onboarding process. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Onboarding.
Author: VolunteeringACT
A guide on how education providers can increase opportunities for international students to volunteer.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide for organisations on international student volunteering and how to effectively engage with and involve international students as volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
A guide on how to involve Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) volunteers, covering recruitment tips, motivations and addressing common concerns organisations may have.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A checklist to ensure your organisation is accessible to volunteers living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A workbook to support the development of a more inclusive organisation.
Author: VolunteeringACT
How to create a safe and inclusive volunteering environment for LGBTIQA+ identifying volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
A guide providing information on key considerations when involving LGBTIQ identifying volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
An international study on how volunteering supports social inclusion.
Author: Making it Matter
A research report that explores how to involve and manage older volunteers.
Author: School of Management, Edith Cowan University
A brief guide in how to involve volunteers from a culturally or linguistically diverse background. The resource covers key stages of the volunteer management cycle including recruitment, induction and training.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
A research report on the involvement of migrant participation in sports volunteering.
Author: Volunteer Ireland
A resource identifying the broader economic context for people living with a disability and the impact this may have to the volunteering context.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A resource aimed at volunteers, identifying the importance of the Cultural Heritage of the lands on which the organisation works, and how the organisation works with Traditional Owners to care for Country.
Author: Department of Biodiversity, Conservation & Attractions, Government of Western Australia, Parks & Wildlife Service
The VictoriaALIVE team speaking to meaningful, inclusive volunteering roles and programs for people living with a disability.
Author: VictoriaALIVE, John McKenna
An example of a policy statement regarding the involvement of volunteers with a criminal record, aimed at potential volunteers.
Author: Southern Volunteering (SA) Inc
A guide to involving school leavers who are living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Research into the benefits of inclusive volunteering, both for volunteers and service users.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
A workbook for people interested in volunteering.
Author: VolunteeringACT
A list of tips to consider when recruiting volunteers identifying as LGBTQI+.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland
Tips on how to involve and support volunteers with a history of problem drug use.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, Scottish Drugs Forum
High level tips on how to create a more inclusive volunteering program.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, National Inclusion in Volunteering Group
A guide to involving mentors or buddies to support volunteers living with a disability.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
A guide and template for completing a risk assessment of volunteer roles.
Author: Volunteer Ireland
A website that contains resources, templates and tools for Volunteer managers and volunteers. The website is aimed at increasing inclusion for people with disability.
Author: Orana, Southern Volunteering SA & Northern Volunteering SA
A research report on the experiences and perceptions of volunteering from both volunteers living with a disability and volunteer involving organisations.
Author: Volunteer Development Scotland
A webpage linking to various lessons and unitis of work that can be used by teachers and volunteer resource centres to support the involvement of young people in volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Information for both organisations and individuals on volunteering as a part of Centrelink activity requirements.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
High level information on volunteering on a visa.
Author: Volunteering Australia
A brief guide on key considerations when involving older volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
An issues paper by the Queensland Government, identifying how to support young people into volunteering.
Author: Queensland Family & Child Commission, Queensland Government
A guide to check and assess how well a volunteering program appeals to young people across five focus areas.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
A guide aimed at helping organisations involve independent young volunteers, from teens through twenties.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
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