Yes, research microvolunteering, however…
I was oh-so-excited when I read that the Institute for Volunteering Research in the UK is going to be undertaking a project to research microvolunteering, a form of online volunteering/virtual...
View ArticleIt’s About Respect
This is a followup to my blog A Stupid Name for a Service for Nonprofits, regarding the unbelievably-poorly-named online volunteering service, Pimp My Cause. The issue isn’t just about a service using...
View ArticleVolunteerism-related research wish list for 2012
I’ve blogged about what I learned or relearned in 2011 that I want to take into 2012. Now, here’s a wish list for volunteerism-related research that I hope organizations like the Independent Sector,...
View ArticleNonprofits & NGOs: Get to Know a University
Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Do you know what community colleges, public universities and private universities are nearest your agency, geographically? And do any of the...
View ArticleVoluntary Sector & Volunteering Research Conference, Sept. 2013 in the UK
Reposted from a message by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in the United Kingdom: Call for Papers: Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 10-11th September 2013,...
View ArticleCan virtual volunteering lead to better employability?
Can engaging in virtual volunteering, particularly by individuals in the European Union, lead to better employability for those individuals? The ICT4EMPL Future Work project is exploring “pathways to...
View ArticleVolunteerism research should include virtual volunteering!
The NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac , published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), maps the the size and scope of the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom. The Independent...
View ArticleNew report NOT by me re: microvolunteering
At long last, someone that is not me has conducted a fact-based, non-hype review of micro volunteering, and not just from the volunteers’ point of view, but from the volunteer-involving organizations...
View ArticlePenn Social Impact Doctoral Fellows Program
The University of Pennsylvania’s Nonprofit Leadership (NPL) Program invites doctoral student researchers to apply for the 2014 Penn Social Impact Doctoral Fellows Program. Facilitated by Peter Frumkin,...
View ArticleHow many virtual volunteering projects are there?
I get these questions frequently: How many virtual volunteering / digital volunteering or microvolunteering projects are there? How many people are engaged in virtual volunteering? The answer: NO ONE...
View ArticleResearch Fellow re: in Civil Society Organisations and research, Centre for...
Closing date: 14-Jan-2015 De Montfort University”s Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility is offering the position of a Research Fellow to work across a number of European and national research...
View ArticleInternational Sport Volunteering – Call for Chapters
A Call for Chapters for a new book project. Posted at ISTR-L, and email-based group by the International Society for Third-Sector Research. Chapter proposals are due by May 1, 2015. And I’m guessing...
View ArticleResearch: Immunity under the Volunteer Protection Act (USA)
Volume 6, Issue 1 (Apr 2015) of the Nonprofit Policy Forum features research by Patricia Groble and Jeffrey L. Brudney, “When Good Intentions Go Wrong: Immunity under the Volunteer Protection Act.”...
View ArticleResearch needs re: virtual volunteering
I get contacted regularly by university students doing a Master’s degree research project that relates to virtual volunteering and, unfortunately, their research subject is almost always the same: the...
View ArticleResearch Explaining How Websites Encourage Volunteering & Philanthropy
Most practitioners in volunteer management and community engagement don’t have time to review academic literature to see if there might be information that’s helpful in their work – and even if they do...
View ArticleFinding out how many orgs are involving online volunteers
A followup to my last blog, where I whined that so many organizations charged with measuring volunteering in a region or country refuse to ask any questions related to virtual volunteering. As I’ve...
View ArticleList of my books, papers, citations in other publications
I have no idea why I haven’t done this before: I’ve made a list of my own publications (many available for purchase, as well as books, white papers, academic papers, etc. that quote me or cite my work,...
View ArticleOnline volunteers help with database of fugitive slave ads
The Freedom on the Move (FOTM) public database project at Cornell University is a major digital database effort to bring together North American fugitive slave advertisements in newspapers from...
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