A stalwart of the charity sector is dead and gone - so now what do we do?
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Volunteers and unpaid labour make up much of the web – companies disrespect them at their peril.
It’s National Volunteer Week, which celebrates the contributions of one in four Australians. Vounteering has 10 core features that should be considered to understand this integral part of our society.
As the investigations continue into what happened at the schools implicated in the Trojan Horse extremism affair in Birmingham, the issue of who controls a school’s governing board has received unprecedented…
Although it is not yet 6am, and the sun has only just begun to rise, already the thermometer is pushing 30C, and the humidity so high it is impossible not to sweat. I’m leading an Australian archaeological…
On the first day of the war in 1914, British newspapers published appeals for young men to join the colours, and to fight against Germany. Following the advice of the new Secretary for War, Lord Kitchener…
In the wake of the Second World War, Karl Polanyi wrote that the public arena is made up of three interconnected sectors: the market, government and civil society. He argued that democracy thrives when…
Some community welfare sector commentators point to a new order for welfare where the private sector practises social responsibility, states seek to be more entrepreneurial and voluntary community organisations…
Seniors can lower their blood pressure by volunteering more than 200 hours each year. The Carmellon University study found…
“Prevent loss” is better way to get volunteers than “provide benefits”. Researchers found that the Red Cross gained more…
Volunteering is worth more than $200 billion a year to the Australian economy, outstripping revenue sources from mining…
Without volunteers, the Olympics would be a disaster. But will the “Games Makers” - the army of 70,000 Olympic and Paralympic volunteers - stimulate a spirit of volunteerism in and beyond London? Volunteering…
“Corporate social responsibility” (CSR) isn’t just a term used by blue chip corporations to give them a more caring image. It’s a principle being adopted by thousands of small and medium-sized tourism…
It is a well-established tradition in the legal and accounting worlds, where lawyers and accountants would provide pro bono legal and accounting services to the voluntary sector. It has also become common…
Volunteers who step in to make important decisions about huge property bills and neighbourly relations feel ill-equipped…
In Australian universities at the moment research is everything. They obsess over the rankings in the new ERA system which measures research performance. For academics publishing in the top journals isn’t…
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
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Professor of Sociology and Director, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Professor of Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses and Professor of Strategic Philanthropy, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Assistant Professor of Citizen and Data Science, University of Arizona
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