Volunteer tourism is often criticised for focusing on profit and volunteer experience. But improving monitoring and evaluation and putting host communities in charge can make it more sustainable.
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Running (or walking) with others is good for health and social connections. But you don’t have to aim for marathons.
The share of people who give their time to good causes is starting to dip.
Museums can help teach immigrants new skills – if they engage them.
Far from being a public-relations gimmick, corporate volunteering can present a strategic tool for companies to better cope with the ongoing demographic shifts and manage their talent.
Research shows social enterprises employ more people with disabilities, female managers and long-term unemployed than regular businesses. This will be key to a more inclusive economy.
New research suggests people who start volunteering before age ten will keep doing so as they grow up.
It’s hard but feasible to make a difference, as long as you work with the locals and don’t become a ‘disaster tourist.’
When lawyers represent the interests of abused animals in the courtroom, they help human victims too.
The US could help solve a global security problem and boost its image abroad by helping willing experts share their cybersecurity knowledge around the country and the globe.
Striking a better gender balance would be easy, but until now universities have not been paying much attention to the problem.
The AIDS crisis arrived in Australia in 1982 and triggered an enormous (and successful) public health response, largely driven by volunteers. These people, often from marginalised communities in their own right, deserve recognition in Australia’s proud volunteer tradition.
Teach for America was created to bring more resources to disadvantaged communities. New research shows that the participants also learn a few things.
Trump’s budget director singled out Meals on Wheels as a waste of federal dollars. But identifying bad ways to spend taxpayer money is harder than it sounds.
How could green groups attract more diverse volunteers? Maybe they could put more time and energy into outreach toward the people most affected by environmental injustices.
With steep budget cuts looming, a growing number of tiny volunteer-driven organizations are delivering aid on their own. Will the Trump administration inspire even more small-scale global giving?
A new training course designed to help volunteers feel like a key part of the team could help to reduce attrition rates among Australia’s estimated 240,000 volunteer emergency service workers.
The ONS says less Brits are volunteering - but the truth is they’re doing it in different ways.
Australian sport will never have the commercial clout to bring the economy out of recession or solve a regional unemployment problem. But it is more than a fringe player in the economic game.
Volunteers in Australia are essential to the provision of a range of services. Yet Western countries – including Australia – have recently reported a decline in volunteer rates.
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor, School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, University of Florida
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Professor in Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
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Chair of History, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
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Lecturer of History, College of the Holy Cross
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Researcher in Health Promotion, Leeds Beckett University
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Assistant Professor of Citizen and Data Science, University of Arizona
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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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PhD Researcher in Sociology, Bangor University
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Senior lecturer, University of East London
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Hon Associate Professor, Modern History, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
