2010 National Volunteering News
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National Volunteering News: February 2010
Volunteer Mentor Program, Golden Gurus, gets financial boost
Pro Bono Australia
A national volunteer mentoring program called the Golden Gurus is set for a $500,000 funding boost to kickstart its work connecting mature aged volunteers with mentoring opportunities around Australia as part of the Rudd Government's Productive Ageing Package. Organisations that deliver the program will be able to apply for grants of up to $10,000 to help them prepare mature age mentors for their voluntary mentoring roles. MORE
2010 Centre for Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Program
Information Sessions: Melbourne–16 February, Sydney–17 February
The Centre for Sustainability Fellowship Program provides a cutting-edge curriculum, with access to Australia's top leaders and a network of the best and brightest young minds in the country. Each year 25 people from all around Australia are selected to join the part-time program in Sydney and Melbourne – everyone from artists to engineers, lawyers to business professionals, doctors to uni students. Places on the program are either highly subsidised by sponsors or fully covered by scholarships. Attend an upcoming information session in Melbourne or Sydney.
National Volunteering News: January 2010
New volunteering resource clearinghouse
OurSharedResources.org
This is a free-to-use website to access and share volunteer management resources. So if you have not checked it out yet, or have good quality application forms, volunteer job descriptions or other documents that you think could assist others, log in today and share your resources with the world! MORE
Government confirms financial support for Volunteering Australia
Pro Bono Australia
The Federal Government has re-affirmed its financial support for Volunteering Australia, allowing it to continue as the national volunteering representative body with an additional $484,000 Australian Government funding to June 2011. This includes $150,000 to provide key national volunteering events, such as the National Conference on Volunteering in October 2010, and the National Volunteer Week activities in May 2010, and $64,000 for the GoVolunteer website. MORE
Want to live longer? Volunteer!
Brian O'Heir, VolunteerTeam
If you have volunteered you know it feels good. In fact, I am reminded of that – or a bank at least – because of its marketing message, one would we should possibly submit to willingly: 'generosity makes people happy'. However, there is even better news and even more reason to bolster the flagging ranks of the volunteer sector. Volunteer and you'll live longer. MORE