SELECTED BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS
Brudney, Jeffrey L. Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning, Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.
Campbell, Katherine Noyes and Ellis, Susan J. The (Help!) I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management. Philadelphia: Energize , 1995.
Coles, Robert. The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Council on Foundations. Measuring the Value of Corporate Citizenship. Washington: Council on Foundations, 1996.
Ellis, Susan J. From the Top Down: The Executive Role in Volunteer Program Success. rev. ed. Philadelphia: Energize, 1996.
Ellis, Susan J. The Volunteer Recruitment Book. 2snd ed. Philadelphia: Energize, 1996.
Ellis, Susan J. and Noyes, Katherine H. By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers. rev. ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.
Fisher, James C. and Cole, Kathleen M. Leadership and Management of Volunteer Programs: A Guide for Volunteer Administrators. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
Forward, David C. Heroes after Hours: Extraordinary Acts of Employee Volunteerism. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Independent Sector. From Belief to Commitment: The Activities and Finances of Religious Congregations in the United States. Washington: Independent Sector, 1993.
Independent Sector. Giving and Volunteering in the United States. Washington: Independent Sector, 1996. Conducted by the Gallup Poll for the Independent Sector, the next scheduled publication date of this national survey is 1999.
Independent Sector. Giving and Volunteering in the United States, Volume II: Trends in Giving and Volunteering by Type of Charity. Washington: Independent Sector 1995.
Independent Sector. Volunteering and Giving Among Teenagers 12 to 17 Years of Age. Washington: Independent Sector, 1996.
Jacoby, Barbara and Associates. Service-Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Kasich, John. Courage Is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America. New York: Doubleday, 1998. (Forthcoming)
O'Connell, Brian, ed. America's Voluntary Spirit: A Book of Readings. New York: Foundation Center, 1983.
O'Connell, Brian. Voices From the Heart: In Celebration of America's Volunteers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass and Chronicle Books, 1998.
O'Connell, Brian and O'Connell, Ann Brown. Volunteers in Action. New York: Foundation Center, 1989.
Pidgeon, Walter P., Jr. The Universal Benefits of Volunteering: A Practical Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Volunteers, and Corporations. New York: Wiley, 1998.
Scheier, Ivan H. Building Staff/Volunteer Relations. Philadelphia: Energize, 1993.
Schine, Joan, ed. Service Learning: Ninety-sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, 1997.
Troy, Kay. Corporate Volunteerism: How Families Make a Difference. New York: Conference Board, 1997.
Wild, Cathleen. Corporate Volunteer Programs: Benefits to Business. New York: Conference Board, 1993.
Wuthnow, Robert. Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.
Wuthnow, Robert, ed. Between States and Markets: The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
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20
Ways for Teenagers to
Help Other People by Volunteering
An online resource for the book The Teenager's Guide to the
Real
World, by Marshall
Brain
(Raleigh, NC: BYG Publications, 1997). The site describes 20
volunteer opportunities for teens
as well as links to several nonprofit organizations.
America
Reads Challenge
The U. S. Department of Education created this site supporting
President Bill Clinton's
challenge to the nation "to ensure that every child can read well
and
independently by the end of
the third grade." It includes information about training
opportunities,
questions and answers,
legislation, the President's Coalition for the America Reads
Challenge,
federal work-study,
publications and research.
America's
Promise: The Alliance for
Youth
Founded at the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, America's
Promise, an alliance of
corporations, foundations and other organizations from the
private and
public sectors, aims to
create access for every at-risk child in America to the resources
needed
in order for them to lead
happy, healthy and productive lives.
Association for Volunteer
Administration
An international membership organization whose purpose is to
"promote professionalism and
strengthen leadership in volunteerism." Offers a professional
credentialing program, publishes a
quarterly journal, The Journal of Volunteer
Administration,
and sponsors international
conferences.
Boston
College Center for Corporate
Community Relations
An international corporate membership organization, partnering
with
businesses worldwide to
strengthen community relationships and foster healthy,
sustainable
communities for citizens and
businesses alike. The site includes resource material for
management
and professional
development, including certificate programs in corporate
community
relations. The Center's
third annual "
snapshot
of issues and trends in community relations"
surveys the growth of global
corporate citizenship.
COOL: Campus Outreach
Opportunity League
A national nonprofit organization dedicated to the education and
empowerment of college and
university students to strengthen the United States through
community
service. COOL mobilizes
and links students of all backgrounds so as to increase
participation in
communities, and fosters
the civic and social responsibility necessary to build a just
society.
Campus Compact
A coalition of college and university presidents committed to
making
service a central element of
undergraduate education, integrated with academic study and
infused
throughout all areas of the
institutions these presidents head.
"Community Service" (Education Week issue page)
Community Service "combines mandatory community service with
related classroom activities"
to
promote learning the basics about democracy and leadership. This
issues page includes a
glossary, links, and relevant articles from Education
Week
and other publications.
Compact for Learning and Citizenship
Housed at the Education Commission of the States, the Compact for
Learning and Citizenship is
an organization of state chiefs and district superintendents. The
organization works to "provide
the educational leadership necessary to integrate community
service
learning into the program of
study for all youth enrolled in grades kindergarten through
twelve."
Congregations in
Community - McKnight
Foundation
An initiative of the McKnight Foundation as an interfaith effort
to
recruit and train volunteers to
assist low-income people. Its goals are to further the reach of
religious
organizations to serve
children and families, and to bring people of different faiths
together to
address common
community problems.
Corporation for National
Service
This site links to all the organizations under the CNS umbrella:
AmeriCorps, Learn & Serve
America, the Senior Corps, America Reads, and National Service
Scholarships. Numerous
service resources, such as notices of funding opportunities,
internships
available, networking
guides, clearinghouses, and documents are highlighted as well.
CyberVPM (Cyberspace
Volunteer Program
Manager)
This site serves as a broad look at volunteers and volunteer
management. The CyberVPM.com
"Resources for Volunteer Program Managers" serves as a "starting
point for information on and
instruction in volunteer program management." This "web book"
includes articles and links on
issues from developing volunteer programs to recruiting,
screening,
training and recognizing
volunteers, to legal issues, and more. An online bookstore,
training
kits and a vibrant discussion
group are other elements of this site.
Energize, Inc.
A variety of resources are included on this site including a library of
articles
and bibliography
on volunteer management, an online Bookstore,
quotes and parables on volunteerism, hot topics, a calendar of
conferences, a job bank and more.
Also lists state, local and provincial associations of volunteer
administration.
Habitat for Humanity
International
Habitat for Humanity has built over 65,000 houses in partnership
with
people in need throughout
the world. This page will answer your questions on how to get
involved, where the houses are
built and how the program works. Fact sheets describing
Habitat's
progress are available for
each country in which Habitat is working.
IdeaList
This site from Action Without Borders lists 14,000 nonprofit
organizations from 125 countries.
Each entry provides information about their services, volunteer
opportunities, job openings,
internships, upcoming events and publications. The directory is
searchable, and the site provides
numerous links.
Impact Online Virtual
Volunteering Project
This "virtual volunteering" project was launched by the
nonprofit,
Impact Online, which is a
"matching service" for volunteers and the
organizations that need them. The project looks at volunteer
activities
that can be completed
off-site via the Internet. The web site includes a number of
practical
guidelines, resources and
examples of noteworthy activities.
Independent Sector (IS)
IS describes itself as a "national leadership forum, working to
encourage philanthropy,
volunteering, not-for-profit initiative and citizen action."
Publishes
numerous highly useful
surveys, toolkits and monographs on government relations,
leadership,
management and research
in the nonprofit field.
International Association for Voluntary Effort (IAVE)
Created in 1970 by a small group of women throughout the world
"who shared a common vision
of how volunteers can contribute to the solution of human and
social
problems." With a board of
directors from 19 countries, the organization continues to
promote and
support effective
volunteering internationally through its conferences, volunteer
centers,
membership services and
training programs in education, public awareness and youth
involvement.
International Year of Volunteers, 2001
During the 52nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly on
November 20, 1997, a
proposal was approved to proclaim the year 2001 as the
International
Year of Volunteers.
Continual updates on IYV 2001 can be accessed through this page.
Internet Nonprofit
Center
Provides information on non-profit organizations, wise giving
practices,
and other issues of
concern to volunteers and donors. A Bibliography
of
Books on
Volunteerism is also available.
Internet Sites for the Nonprofit Sector
This list was prepared by the United States Information Agency's
Democracy and Human Rights
team for the electronic journal "The Nonprofit Sector: Partner
in Civil
Society," Issues of
Democracy, January 1998.
Kids Can Make a Difference
(KIDS)
KIDS is an educational program for middle and high school age
students, which focuses on the
"root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected,
solutions and how students can
help." The Web page offers access to a teacher's guide, a hunger
quiz, a KIDS newsletter and
more.
Literature of the Nonprofit
Sector Online
From the Foundation Center,
this authoritative
bibliography is regularly
updated and contains citations to materials collected by the
Center's
five libraries as well as
selected literature from other sources. A listing of
new
acquisitions on
voluntarism is available.
National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse
This clearinghouse maintained by Learn & Serve America, collects
and
disseminates
information
for the service-learning field. Among the resources available
are
searchable databases of
Contacts, Events, a ListServ, Literature and Program Information;
downloadable bibliographies,
monographs, newsletters and videos; publications for purchase;
and
extensive service learning
links.
National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership
Includes bibliographies of service learning and teacher
education
resources. A listserve for
integrating service learning in teacher preparation is available.
Nonprofit Gateway
Links to information on government grants, budgets, volunteer
opportunities and agency
partnerships.
Points of Light
Foundation
Along with the Corporation for National Service, the Points of
Light
Foundation co-sponsored
the Presidents' Summit for America's Future. Devoted to
promoting
volunteerism, the nonprofit
organization has developed a number of ongoing training and
development programs and
initiatives, such as
Connect America, the Prudential Youth
Leadership Institute, the JC Penney Golden Rule Awards Program,
the
Daily Points of Light
awards and the annual "National Volunteer Week." Note the
section
on
corporate volunteer
initiatives.
Presidents' Summit for America's Future (includes FAQ and
speeches)
On April 27-29, 1997, in Independence Hall in Philadelphia,
President
Clinton and President
Bush convened the first Presidents' Summit for America's Future.
The
Summit's goal, like that
of
AmeriCorps, was to "mobilize America's citizen power into a
united
effort to solve our common
problems -- especially those that threaten our young people."
Participants included leaders from
prominent corporations and service organizations as well as every
living
former President. Look
here for transcripts of speeches and FAQ about the Summit. For
follow-up information, see
America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth.
SERVEnet
Sponsored by
Youth Service America, an
organization committed to community and national service.
Includes
directory of affiliated
organizations and a service called "Volunteer Now!" which matches
the
skills of volunteers with
the non-profit organizations that need them.
Volunteers of America
Founded in 1896, Volunteers of America is "one of the nation's
oldest,
largest and most
comprehensive nonprofit human service organizations." Serves
abused
and neglected children,
homeless families and individuals, the elderly, youth at risk,
people
with disabilities and ex-
offenders returning to society. Its public policy advocacy role
is
accomplished through its
nationwide affiliates and publications, including Spirit
Magazine and The
Gazette.
The Visionaries
Each episode of this PBS series "highlights the positive
difference
individuals are making in the
lives of other people through the vital work of nonprofit
organizations."
This site contains
summaries of the episodes from the first three seasons.
La Société
américaine
Revue électronique de l'USIA, volume 3, numéro
2, septembre 1998