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Volunteering Australia's position statements of volunteering related issues.
Author: Volunteering Australia
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Calculating the Economic Value of Your Volunteers
A guide on how to quantitatively calculate the economic value of your volunteers.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
Common Languages Guide
A guide to the glossary of terms and conditions widely used in the volunteering sector.
Author: Volunteering Australia
COVID-19 Position Paper 1: Volunteering and National Policy Settings
Position paper setting out shared views on how to adapt national policy settings and messaging to help ensure volunteers are safeguarded during the COVID-19 public health emergency and are facilitated to best support the emergency response to COVID-19.
Author: Volunteering Australia
COVID-19 Position paper No.2: Safeguarding Volunteers and Volunteer Involving Organisations
Position paper to help guide decision-making of volunteer involving organisations and volunteers during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Author: Volunteering Australia
COVID-19 Position paper No.3: Volunteering, vaccinations and being COVIDSafe
Position paper to help guide decision-making of Volunteer Involving Organisations on how volunteers can be safeguarded during the ongoing COVID-19 situation, drawing on official sources of advice and expertise.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Invest for Success: The Real Value of Volunteering
Research into the value of volunteering in Scotland, providing information on how to measure impact and build volunteering into funding.
Author: Scottish Volunteering Forum, Scottish Government
Issues Paper: Volunteering Australia's National Review of the Definition of Volunteering in Australia
Volunteering Australia's National Steering Committee's Issues Paper relating to the review of the definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Joint Policy Statement: Addressing the Pandemic Insurance Gap for Volunteers
A policy statement addressing the volunteering protection gap raised by the COVID-19 health pandemic.
Author: Volunteering Australia, Justice Connect
Key Sources of Information about Volunteering in Australia
A quick guide to publicly available information about volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Key Statistics about Volunteering in Australia: The General Social Survey
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
Key Volunteering Statistics
A snapshot of key facts and statistics about volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Measuring the Impact of Volunteering
A guide on how to measure the impact of volunteers.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
NSW State of Volunteering Report
The Centre for Volunteering, in partnership with the Department of Communities and Justice, is pleased to launch the inaugural New South Wales State of Volunteering report. This in-depth analysis showcases the characteristics of volunteers, volunteering and volunteer-involving organisations. It produces a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the social, cultural and economic impacts of volunteering on communities in NSW. The report was undertaken by the Institute of Project Management which surveyed more than 1,100 volunteers and received more than 1,000 responses from volunteer-involving organisations. Discover the value of the nearly 4.9 million residents across NSW who gave more than 1.5 billion hours of volunteering in 2020; the benefit of which is approximately $127 billion.
Author: Institute of Project Management, The Centre for Volunteering
Research Briefing Volunteering during the first year of COVID-19
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
Social Policy Compendium
Volunteering Australia's position statements of volunteering related issues.
Author: Volunteering Australia
State of Volunteering in Victoria: 2020
A research report into the volunteering sector in Victoria. This report sheds light on volunteering characteristics, including motivations, barriers, recruitment, retention and trends.
Author: Volunteering Victoria, Institute of Project Management, Victoria State Government
The Economic Value of Volunteering in Victoria
A research report into the economic value of volunteering in Victoria, published in 2012.
Author: Department of Planning and Community Development
The Review of the Definition of Volunteering
Information on the review of the definition of volunteering undertaken in 2013-2015.
Author: Volunteering Australia
The State of Volunteering in Queensland 2021 Report
The State of Volunteering in Queensland 2021 Report is the inaugural report into the status, and the economic and social value of volunteering in Queensland.
Author: Institute of Project Management, Volunteering Queensland
Volunteering & Gender Key Statistics
This document provides key statistics about volunteering in Australia by gender.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Volunteering and the Early Impact of COVID-19
Research and key statistics on the impact of COVID-19 on volunteering in Australia.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Volunteering Australia's Defintion of Volunteering - Frequently Asked Questions
An FAQ Document that was released alongside the launch of the revised 2015 Volunteering Australia definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Volunteering Australia's Defition of Volunteering: Frequently Asked Questions Supplement
An FAQ document relating to Volunteering Australia's definition of volunteering.
Author: Volunteering Australia
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