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Preparing Newcomers Then and Now
Magic strategies for success. Breaking the rules and getting away with it. What we can teach leaders in the corporate world. Creativity. Innovation. Generational theory. Happy meals vs. real cooking. Leadership. Motivation. Risk management.
Rob Jackson
Keyboard Roundtables
April 2004
Volunteers in Arts and Culture
In this issue of “Along the Web” we’ll look at Internet resources for volunteers in arts, culture, museums, and heritage programs. This is all part of an effort to lend a bit of class to our otherwise pedestrian existence. Items are grouped into sections: articles and technical…
Steve McCurley
Along the Web
April 2004
Reach Out to Youth - Their Way
The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada has a dedicated volunteer corps that until recently was comprised mainly of adults who had been serving the Museum for 20 to 30 years. Little thought had been given to succession planning, although the volunteers were clearly aging…
Connie Cook
Feature Articles
April 2004
Ethics and the Hydra
Most of us have seen board members separate their collective, decision-making role on the board from their individual, working role in other volunteer capacities. And we know that board members who fail to make or remember the distinction can be very problematic. The level of…
Jane Garthson
Feature Articles
April 2004
VQ Sustainable Training Scheme
Hong Kong has a long history of developing volunteer services. People from all walks of life are familiar with the concept of volunteerism while a wide variety of specific volunteer opportunities have been opening up, ranging from management roles to the execution of specific…
Julia Lam
Feature Articles
April 2004
Public vs. Private Compassion: Colored Ribbons, T-shirts, and SUVs
The UK think tank Civitas just announced a new publication with the intriguing title of Conspicuous Compassion: Why Sometimes It Really Is Cruel to Be Kind, by Patrick West. According to reviewers, West feels that people who wear colored ribbons to show empathy with worthy…
Susan J. Ellis, Steve McCurley
Points of View
April 2004
Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself? Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich February 2004 Some things said about volunteering seem intuitively right; such as, volunteering can make you happy. Research such as the…
Steven Howlett
Research to Practice
April 2004
The Name Game
Brenda Clifton of the Volunteer Center of the Pikes Peak Region offer this fun group exercise to enliven volunteer recruitment training. Participants are given one-half of a pair of job titles and have to find their matching half. The catch is that group 2 has traditional,…
Brenda Clifton
Training Designs
April 2004
On the Inside: The Tradition of Volunteers in Prisons
Volunteers from the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Misery of Public Prisons began visiting incarcerated people in 1787. Over the next 117 years, the organization continued its efforts to improve prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. Today the same…
Susan J. Ellis
Voices from the Past
April 2004

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