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A Common Purpose: Formal Volunteering and Cultural Diversity

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

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101 Ways to Recognise Your Volunteers

A comprehensive list of ways to recognise volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Australia

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A Common Purpose: Formal Volunteering and Cultural Diversity

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

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Action on Hearing Loss Scotland: Top Tips for Supporting Volunteers with Hearing Loss or Deafness

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

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Adapting Volunteer Roles

A guide on how to adapt volunteering roles to be more inclusive of people living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Aged-Friendly Volunteering

A guide on how to involve older volunteers living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Building Inclusive Bridges: A Guide to Facilitating Inclusive Referrals

A guide on how to facilitate inclusive volunteering in an organisation. This resource provides practical tools and tips.

Author: VolunteeringACT

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Confident, Connected, Contributing: Top Tips for Recruiting and Supporting Disabled Volunteers

A list of tips on how to involve and support volunteers living with a disability.

Author: Volunteer Scotland, Glasgow Disability Alliance

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Creating an Inclusive Volunteering Environment

Information on how to create an inclusive volunteering environment, including information on how to complete an inclusion review.

Author: Volunteer Scotland

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Definition of Discrimination

An overview of what discrimination is and the types of discrimination that may occur.

Author: Volunteering WA

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Disability Action Plan

A guide on how to develop a Disability Action Plan. This resource is accompanied by Disability Action Plan Templates.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Disability Action Plan: Template

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

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Effective Communication

Communication considerations when working with volunteers living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Engaging and Working with Youth Volunteers

Legal information on involving young volunteers.

Author: Justice Connect, Not-for-Profit Law

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Engaging Millennial Volunteers: Understanding a New Breed of Volunteers

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

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Engaging Young Volunteers

A brief guide on key considerations when involving younger volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Queensland

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Example Inclusion Statement

An example of an inclusion statement at an organisational level.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Guide to Onboarding: Inclusion and Diversity Questionnaire

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

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International Student Volunteer Initiative: An Information Kit for Education Providers on Increasing Opportunity for International Students to Volunteer

A guide on how education providers can increase opportunities for international students to volunteer.

Author: Volunteering Queensland

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International Student Volunteer Initiative: An Information Kit for Organisations on Engaging International Students as Volunteers

A guide for organisations on international student volunteering and how to effectively engage with and involve international students as volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Queensland

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Involving Volunteers from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

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

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Is Your Organisation Accessible?

A checklist to ensure your organisation is accessible to volunteers living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Let's Talk About Inclusion: Promoting Inclusion in your Volunteer Involving Organisation

A workbook to support the development of a more inclusive organisation.

Author: VolunteeringACT

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LGBTIQ Volunteers: Inclusive Practice

How to create a safe and inclusive volunteering environment for LGBTIQA+ identifying volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Victoria

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LGBTIQ Volunteers: Inclusive Practice Guidelines

A guide providing information on key considerations when involving LGBTIQ identifying volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Victoria

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Making it Matter: The impact of volunteering on social inclusion

An international study on how volunteering supports social inclusion.

Author: Making it Matter

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Managing Older Workers: What can we learn from managers of older volunteers?

A research report that explores how to involve and manage older volunteers.

Author: School of Management, Edith Cowan University

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Managing Volunteers from a CALD Background

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

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Migrant Participation in Sports Volunteering in Ireland

A research report on the involvement of migrant participation in sports volunteering.

Author: Volunteer Ireland

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Money, Volunteers and Disability

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

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Podcast: Inclusive Meaningful Volunteering Goes Beyond Stuffing Envelopes

The VictoriaALIVE team speaking to meaningful, inclusive volunteering roles and programs for people living with a disability.

Author: VictoriaALIVE, John McKenna

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Policy Statement: The involvement of ex-offenders as volunteers

An example of a policy statement regarding the involvement of volunteers with a criminal record, aimed at potential volunteers.

Author: Southern Volunteering (SA) Inc

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School Leavers and Volunteering

A guide to involving school leavers who are living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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The Benefits of Inclusive Volunteering

Research into the benefits of inclusive volunteering, both for volunteers and service users.

Author: Volunteer Scotland

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The Volunteer Journey: An Inclusive Workbook for People who are Interested in Volunteering

A workbook for people interested in volunteering.

Author: VolunteeringACT

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Top Tips for Recruiting and Supporting LGBT Youth Volunteers

A list of tips to consider when recruiting volunteers identifying as LGBTQI+.

Author: Volunteer Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland

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Top Tips for Recruiting and Supporting Volunteers with a History of Problem Drug Use

Tips on how to involve and support volunteers with a history of problem drug use.

Author: Volunteer Scotland, Scottish Drugs Forum

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Top Tips: Inclusion in Volunteering - Common Areas

High level tips on how to create a more inclusive volunteering program.

Author: Volunteer Scotland, National Inclusion in Volunteering Group

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Using Mentors, Buddies or Other Support

A guide to involving mentors or buddies to support volunteers living with a disability.

Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria

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Volunteer Role Risk Assessments

A guide and template for completing a risk assessment of volunteer roles.

Author: Volunteer Ireland

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Volunteerability

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

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Volunteering and Disability

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

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Volunteering and the Australian Curriculum

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

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Volunteering for Centrelink Activity Requirements

Information for both organisations and individuals on volunteering as a part of Centrelink activity requirements.

Author: Volunteering Queensland

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Volunteering on a Visa

High level information on volunteering on a visa.

Author: Volunteering Australia

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Working with Older Volunteers

A brief guide on key considerations when involving older volunteers.

Author: Volunteering Queensland

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Young People Volunteering: Removing the Barriers

An issues paper by the Queensland Government, identifying how to support young people into volunteering.

Author: Queensland Family & Child Commission, Queensland Government

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Youth Ready Assessment

A guide to check and assess how well a volunteering program appeals to young people across five focus areas.

Author: Volunteering Victoria

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Youth Ready Guide

A guide aimed at helping organisations involve independent young volunteers, from teens through twenties.

Author: Volunteering Victoria

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