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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. To answer that question, let’s look at the roles of nonprofit staff, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropy.

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Idealist and VolunteerMatch to Merge

NonProfit Quarterly

The merger is sure to impact the landscape of nonprofit volunteer recruitment at a time when the future of volunteerism is in flux, after rates of volunteering plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, then seemed to rebound more recently.

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Why Are We Ignoring One-Sixth of the Nonprofit Workforce?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers, Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Volunteerism is an enormous economic force, yet it is never mentioned in business schools or in economics departments.

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Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. But this does not explain why AVOs exist.

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Building Blocks of a Public Policy Agenda for Volunteerism

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Given the vast landscape of laws regarding paid staff, there’s surprisingly little law addressing volunteerism.

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Beyond the Moment: How Nonprofits Can Leverage Civic Engagement

NonProfit Quarterly

Volunteerism as a civic lever Go beyond traditional volunteerism to support skills-based volunteering, virtual options, and community organizing. Empower grassroots leadership Tap into community members as trusted leaders, and center marginalized voices like those from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ communities.

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. The rate of volunteerism, as measured by the Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.