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“One of These Things Is Not Like the Other”: Differentiating Between Boards, Councils, Committees, and Advisory Groups
With apologies to Sesame Street and its well-known song lyrics, “One of these things (is not like the others)” applies to the world of volunteer management, too. Consider organizational constructs like boards, councils, committees, and advisory groups. When it comes to your…
Ken Culp, III, Harriett Edwards and Jenny W. Jordan
Feature Articles
January 2017
Doing Good Deeds for Love: A New Approach to Volunteering and Forging Relationships
A concept that spreads the love through volunteering? Good deeds and dating in a single package? In this e-Volunteerism feature, volunteer-manager-turned-entrepreneur Hannah Whitehead describes her efforts to innovate against all odds—and yes, she brings Cupid along for the…
Hannah Whitehead
Feature Articles
January 2017
Volunteering for Social Change: Voices from the 2016 IAVE World Volunteer Conference
In this special Voices, Allyson Drinnon, the director of the Volunteer Resource Center for Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, Georgia, reports from the field at the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) World Volunteer Conference that took place…
Allyson Drinnon, CVA
Voices
January 2017
Lessons from a Lifetime of Training: An Interview with Betty Stallings
We're all trying to up our training game and learn best practices from those with demonstrated experience and excellence as trainers. Who better to learn from than e-Volunteerism’s very own Betty Stallings? The journal’s first editor of the Training Designs section, Stallings…
Erin R. Spink
Training Designs
January 2017
Getting Better Connected: Volunteers Bridge the Digital Divide
If you find your way to e-Volunteerism and then to this article, you have done some things which many of us readily take for granted and increasingly do without thinking.  For a start, you will have some kind of electronic device which you know how to use and connect to the…
Arnie Wickens
Along the Web
January 2017
Using the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) to Strengthen Cross-cultural Volunteer Recruitment and Retention
Volunteerism research has produced a wide range of palpable evidence supporting various motivations for volunteer involvement, including but not limited to humanitarian and altruistic concern for others; an unassuming yearning to help; a desire for satisfying self); an…
Tonya Howard Calhoun
Research to Practice
January 2017
It’s Time to Update the Volunteer Engagement Cycle
In this e-Volunteerism feature, author Jill Jukes from the March of Dimes Canada’s Western Region argues that it’s time to update how organizations plan and prepare for volunteer involvement. Taking a close look at what she calls the traditional “Volunteer Engagement Cycle,”…
Jill Jukes
Feature Articles
January 2017
The Professional Responsibility to Have and Share Opinions
In this thought-provoking Points of View, Susan J. Ellis and Rob Jackson profess that they are not trying to exhort volunteer managers or instill guilt (well, maybe a tiny bit). Rather, these two volunteer leadership vanguards explain why and how a strong profession like…
Susan J. Ellis, Rob Jackson
Points of View
January 2017

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