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When Disaster Strikes: Getting Volunteer Resources to the Right Place at the Right Time
Following the 9/11 terrorism attacks in New York, approximately 60,000 people converged on Ground Zero hoping to help at the World Trade Center. Lessons learned from this event and other disasters have taught us that it is so much easier to prepare for what have come to be…
Kelle Remmel and Margaret Melsh
Training Designs
October 2006
Miscellaneous Good Stuff, Part 3
This issue of “Along the Web” contains a variety of the newer publications now available on the Internet.  The pace of research and technical assistance material on volunteering is increasing and one can now find almost any subject covered in some detail.  What follows is just a…
Steve McCurley
Along the Web
October 2006
Collaboration and Partnership: Using a Process to Facilitate Success
The potential for partnership exists for every organization. Partnerships can be formed within the nonprofit sector as well as with for-profits and government. We can share space, equipment, staff and volunteers, training, experience, events, revenue – the list is endless. It is…
Debbie Anderson
Feature Articles
October 2006
The Dangers of Too Much Enthusiasm
Many volunteer program managers bemoan the fact that they receive little support from top management.  In this issue’s Points of View we consider the consequences of having entirely too enthusiastic backing from executive decision-makers – whether politicians or agency…
Steve McCurley and Susan J. Ellis
Points of View
October 2006
Refugees and Asylum Seekers Volunteering in the UK
One area in which volunteering is important is in helping people who are new, or relatively new, to a country settle and integrate. This is the focus of A Part of Society. The report rightly starts from a position that, although (in the UK at least) we know a great deal about…
Steven Howlett
Research to Practice
October 2006
Emergency Management Volunteers in British Columbia, Canada
There are over 10,000 registered volunteers in the emergency management field in the province of British Columbia (BC) in Canada, working in Emergency Social Services, Search and Rescue, and Amateur Radio Communications.  During the summer of 2003, with many fires burning in the…
Rosanna von Sacken
Feature Articles
October 2006
Generating Funds for Your Volunteer Program: The Mindset and Methods
This is a landmark article, in that it tackles a critical subject rarely presented in depth:  what it takes to raise money to support volunteers and the infrastructure of a volunteer program.  As the title says, noted trainer and author Betty Stallings covers both the attitudes…
Betty Stallings
Feature Articles
October 2006
Two Thousand Miles of Volunteering: The Appalachian Trail
A “linear community” stretching over two thousand miles up and down the eastern United States, the Appalachian Trail was first conceived in the 1920s and completed in 1951.  From first to last, it was a project of volunteer initiative and ingenuity – and continues today to be a…
Susan J. Ellis
Voices from the Past
October 2006

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