February 7, 2012

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Canada

E-newsletters & E-zines

  • AARP – Make a Difference
    Membership organization leading positive social change and delivering value to people age 50 and over through information, advocacy and service.
  • Big Tent
    Connects people with the communities they care about, making it easy for groups and their members to participate, communicate, and organize. All for free, and all from a single home on the Web.
  • Charity Channel
    Articles, resource guide, and weekly e-information about nonprofits and volunteering.
  • Contributions Magazine
    “How-to” source for nonprofit professionals, published bimonthly, covers all aspects of fund raising, management and marketing.
  • Convio Connection
    A free bimonthly newsletter for nonprofits on how to attract constituents, drive action, and build loyalty through online relationship management
  • e-Volunteerism
    Readings with cutting edge information and commentary on a variety of aspects of volunteerism.
  • IJOVA – The International Journal of Volunteer Administration
    Connecting practioners, academicians, and consultants in greater service to the global volunteer community.
  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
    A forum for researchers from around the world to publish timely articles from a variety of disciplinary perspectives
  • Save Service
    Website established to rally support for National Service
  • ServiceNation
    Campaign to inspire a new era of vountary citizen service in America
  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy
    An online and newspaper publication dedicated to fundraisers. Contains listings of resources and available grants.
  • VolResource
    Information for voluntary and community organisations
  • Volunteer Today
    The Electronic Gazette for Volunteerism

Fund Development

Leadership Tools & Tips

  • Board Source
    Tools and information to build effective nonprofit boards of directors
  • Chapter Leader Resource Center
    Developing leaders and facilitating growth
  • Charity Village
    Canada’s supersite for the nonprofit sector
  • Evite
    Free online invitations, free ecards, birthday invitations, party invitations, birthday ecards, party ideas — everything you need to throw a party.
  • Hands on Network
    The nation’s two largest volunteer networks–the Points of Light Foundation and Hands on Network–combined forces to empower Americans to build a better wrold through volunteering.
  • HootSuite
    HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.
  • Independent Sector
    Offers valuable insights from research. Provides great stats on volunteering and giving trends in the USA.
  • National Conference on Citizenship
    The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is a leader in promoting the nation’s civic life. They track, measure and promote civic participation and engagement in partnership with other organizations on a bipartisan, collaborative basis.
  • Points of Light Institute
    Through a variety of programs and services, the Foundation encourages people from all walks of life — businesses, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, low-income communities, families, youth, and older adults — to volunteer.
  • The Joy of Leadership
    Simple, successful management solutions for leaders in business and non profit organizations.
  • Volunteer Genie
    Iinvestigates the relationship between charities and the media.
  • World Volunteer Web
    Supports the volunteer community by serving as a global clearinghouse for information and resources linked to volunteerism that can be used for campaigning, advocacy and networking.

National

  • American Bar Association
    To serve equally our members, our profession and the public by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession.
  • American Hospital Association – Committee on Volunteers
    The Committee on Volunteers is concerned with the roles, responsibilities and services of organized volunteers and auxilians, as well as the community perspective they provide for the healthcare field.
  • American Massage Therapy Organization
    AMTA has long been the leading choice among massage therapists looking to establish themselves within the profession. Here, your practice comes first. Explore our key member benefits below and let AMTA be your roadmap to success.
  • American Symphony Orchestra League
    The League of American Orchestras leads, supports, and champions America’s orchestras and the vitality of the music they perform. Its diverse membership of approximately 850 orchestras across North America runs the gamut from world-renowned symphonies to
  • AmeriCorps VISTA
    AmeriCorps VISTA is the national service program designed specifically to fight poverty. Authorized in 1964 and founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, VISTA was incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA has been on
  • Association of Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals
    The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association is the premier professional membership society for healthcare volunteer services, retail operations and related s
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
    The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative,
  • http://www.seniorcorps.org/about/programs/rsvp.asp
    Senior Corps helps communities in the form of senior volunteers over the age of 55. They have many different programs that senior can participate in to perform some kind of volunteering service to their surrounding communities.
  • International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
    The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) is a not-for-profit trade association representing government agencies charged with the administration of workers’ compensation systems throughout the United States, Cana
  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
    Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury, hospice and palliative care involve a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expre
  • Senior Companions
    If you’re 55 and want to share your experience and compassion, you have what it takes to be a Senior Companion. By becoming a companion to a frail person, you help that person stay in their own home. Whether you’re giving families or professional caregive
  • Senior Corps
    Senior Corps connects today’s 55+ with the people and organizations that need them most. We help them become mentors, coaches or companions to people in need, or contribute their job skills and expertise to community projects and organizations.
  • Temple Univ, Center for Intergenerational Learning
    The Intergenerational Center, created in 1979, strengthens communities by bringing generations together to address critical concerns and creating opportunities for lifelong civic engagement. The Center is part of the College of Health Professions and Soci
  • White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives
    The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships within the Domestic Policy Council works to form partnerships between the Federal Government and faith-based and neighborhood organizations to more effectively serve Americans in need.

Online Discussion Groups

  • Cybervpm Discussion Group
    Discussion group for volunteer managers
  • The Nonprofit Times
    An online update of information and articles of interest to nonprofits.
  • UKVPM
    Networking and communication resource for all Volunteer Programme Managers working in the United Kingdom

State

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Volunteer Administration

  • Betty B. Stallings
    Betty Stallings brings experience and just-in-time resources to all aspects of volunteerism. See free resources.
  • CASAnet
    Comprehensive volunteer management resources
  • Certified Administrator of Volunteer Services
    CAVS is a premier credential based on a sound assessment that provides distinction in an increasingly competitive healthcare volunteer management marketplace.
  • Conversations From the Field of Volunteer Management
    Contributors from the VolunteerMaine Partnership and Maine Commission for Community Service
  • Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration
    Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA) is the only international professional certification in the field of volunteer resources management.
  • Energize Inc.
    An international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism
  • Grass-Roots.org
    Tells the stories of the most innovative grassroots programs in the United States and the local heroes who’ve found effective ways to build their communities, fix what’s broken and make them better.
  • JFFixler Group – Innovative Volunteer Strategies
    From comprehensive publications to brief lists of tips and tactics, JFFixler.com is a virtual center of cutting-edge tools, current research, and reflections by thought leaders in volunteer engagement and related fields
  • Linda Graff and Associates
    An international consulting firm that specializes / specialises in volunteerism and non-profit management
  • Online/Virtual Volunteering
    The premier resource for developing on line volunteer options.
  • Our Shared Resources
    Free resource clearinghouse for managers of volunteers
  • Resource Center
    The repository of over 8,000 nodes of training tools, publications, and effective practices to support volunteer programs, nonprofits, and people involved with the AmeriCorps family of programs.
  • ServiceLeader.org
    Information on all aspects of volunteer management
  • Sparked – The Microvolunteering Network
    Online volunteering for busy people
  • Volunteer Canada
    Canada’s site for information on volunteering
  • Volunteer Management Resource Center
    Current research, best practices, tools, and ideas from idealist.org
  • VolunteerHub
    VolunteerHub provides creative information technology for connecting people and purposes. Site includes a blog with helpful articles for volunteer managers.
  • Volunteering in America
    Access volunteering trends, statistics, tools, resources, and information for the nation, U.S. regions, states, and major cities.

Volunteer Leadership Associations

Volunteer Recruitment Sites

  • 1-800-Volunteer
    A national database of volunteer opportunities powered by a volunteer management system for non-profits.
  • All For Good
    Share volunteering activities with your friends, invite friends to join you on All for Good and see how they’re volunteering, track volunteering activities.
  • Australian Volunteers International
    Enables Australians to volunteer and work overseas, in partnership with people of developing communities
  • ChristianVolunteering.org
    A program of TechMission that matches volunteers to volunteer opportunities and helps organizations recruit volunteers through online volunteer matching.
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
    Improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering.
  • SERVE.gov
    Online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own.
  • SERVEnet
    Brings thousands of volunteers and community organizations together online
  • ServiceNation
    Campaign to inspire a new era of vountary citizen service in America
  • Single Volunteers, Inc.
    Provides singles with a productive way to meet other singles by organizing volunteer activities which groups of singles then perform.
  • Volunteer Match
    A leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer.

Web Tools

  • Church Director
    Volunteer scheduling and ministry tools
  • myvolunteer.com
    New way to effectively track, organize, manage and schedule your volunteers and events online, anywhere, anytime using any secured web.
  • Survey Monkey
    Tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes
  • The Point
    Easy and effective group action. Whether you’re raising money, organizing people, or trying to influence change: if you can’t do it alone, you can do it on The Point.
  • Volunteer Spot
    Free for everything you coordinate.
  • WhenToHelp.com
    Scheduling Software provides online acess to schedules. Qualifying charities can use this scheduling software for free.