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Race Equity in Volunteerism Work: Is Anything Changing?
For the past five years, the Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement (MAVA) has conducted research and education on race equity in volunteerism. Through funding from the Minneapolis Foundation, MAVA was able to convene the necessary voices – over 40 community members and…
Karmit Bulman
Feature Articles
October 2022
The Genie in the Bottle
There is a long tradition in Volunteer Engagement of focusing on the things we want, the things we feel we don’t have. Whether it’s more power, resources or respect, we give an inordinate amount of our time, dialogue and effort as a profession to the things we perceive we lack.…
Rob Jackson, Erin R. Spink
Points of View
October 2022
Does Age Matter in Episodic Volunteering?
The research highlighted in this Research to Practice explores age and episodic volunteers. Are individuals in different age groups motivated to volunteer for episodic events for different reasons? Do they experience their volunteering differently? Do they assess their…
Laurie Mook, Ph.D.
Research to Practice
October 2022
A Systems Perspective of Volunteering
In Voices, Thu-Trang Tran, the CEO of Volunteer West, takes a step back from the dynamics of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) that is reverberating today throughout the volunteering sector. Through her helicopter view of volunteering as a part of the…
Thu-Trang Tran
Voices
October 2022
A Year in Review: Ethical Challenges in the News 2022
As we wind down towards the end of 2022, join Ethics Editors Erin McLean and Erin R. Spink as they reflect on the headlines that brought ethical dilemmas in Volunteer Engagement into the forefront during the past 12 months. The final Ethics column for the year will review these…
Erin McLean, Erin R. Spink
Ethics
October 2022
Owning Your Profile: Using Data to Enable Your Volunteering Journey
Every volunteer is a special snowflake – and that's a good thing! Individual perspectives help us find more human solutions to outstanding needs, and knowing the unique powers of each volunteer would ideally enable us to be the best versions of our programs. In the past, we…
Sam Fankuchen
Ahead of the Curve
October 2022
Flipping the Narrative on Volunteer Engagement
As Leaders of Volunteer Engagement, we seek to make a difference to the agencies we work in and the communities we serve by recruiting community members to volunteer and make a difference. While we would like to believe we use processes that are equitable in making decisions…
Tracey O’Neill, CVA
Feature Articles
October 2022

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