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Volunteer Life 2010 Issues

Volunteer Life, Issue 12, February 2010

2009 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD

  • 2009 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award Winners
  • NSW Volunteer Ambassador of the Year for 2010
  • 2009 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award Winners and Photo Gallery

VOLUNTEER STORIES

  • Layne Beachley: Helping young girls achieve their dreams
  • Volunteers lobby for a new school in Central Coast, NSW
  • The difference you make is a reward in itself
  • A volunteer with time on his hands?
  • Giving back to her adopted country
  • Rosemary Weaver: "The Inn is a magical building"

VOLUNTEERING IN FOCUS

  • Want to live longer? Volunteer!

VOLUNTEERING NEWS

  • New Minister for Volunteering: The Hon. Peter Primrose MLC
  • National Volunteer Week 2010: Update
  • New volunteer team management tool
  • Vodafone's World of Difference program
  • Volunteering guides translated into 16 languages
  • New volunteering resource clearinghouse
  • Vale Professor Mark Lyons

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

  • Bridge to Volunteering: Free introduction to volunteering workshop
  • 2010 Australasian Retreat for Advanced Volunteer Management

Volunteer Life 2009 Issues

Volunteer Life, Issue 11, January 2009

2008 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Meet the NSW Volunteer of the Year Award winners

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- A zest for life: 2008 Get Up & Go Award winner

BOOK REVIEW
- Giving: How each of us can change the world

CELEBRITY AND EXECUTIVE VOLUNTEERS
- Paul Newman: Hollywood legend, charity great

VOLUNTEER PROFILE
- Norm and Kaye Hawes: Two pillars of the Central Coast Courtesy Transport Program of The Leukaemia Foundation

IN FOCUS
- Have your say on climate change

DOING AND GIVING
- Volunteer Referral Service volunteers rule

COMPANIES WITH HEART AND SPIRIT
- Karen Carmichael: Partners in learning

VOLUNTEERING NEWS
- Order your National Volunteer Week Pins and Posters
- Volunteer passports 'creditable'
- The costs of volunteering: More needs to be done
- Bullying and harassment in the workplace: A guide for paid staff and volunteers

- INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING: 2008 PROGRAM REPORTS
- C3P: Creating Community Corporate Partnerships
- SCIP/Youth volunteering
- School of Volunteer Management
- Research and Policy
- Membership

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- Bridge to Volunteering
- School of Volunteer Management Training and Events
      - Speak Up! Speak Out! and other Short Courses in 2009
      - Funded training through the Strategic Skills Program
      - CAVI pathways – distance learning or RPL
- Volunteer Coordinators Networking Events: 2009

Volunteer Life 2008 Issues

Volunteer Life, Issue 10, September 2008

2008 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Last chance to nominate for the 2008 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award
- Youth and Corporate nominations needed
- Meet the 2008 NSW Volunteer of the Year Volunteer Nominees

SPECIAL FEATURE
- Tragic death of Food Water Shelter's building foreman Darren Stratti

COMPANIES WITH HEART AND SPIRIT
- Planit Charity Day at Wairoa School, North Bondi

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Lyndey Milan, much more than a cook

DOING AND GIVING
- 2008 Oxfam TRAILWALKER
- FreeRice: Help world hunger by playing with words

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- What to consider before volunteering overseas

BOOK REVIEW
- Volunteering: Why we can't survive without it

CELEBRITIES AND EXECUTIVES
- A tribute to Jane Mcgrath: A truly inspiring woman

VOLUNTEER PROFILE
- Emily Olive: I would love to make everything equal ...

FVI NEWS
- New Minister for Volunteering
- Letter to the SMH Editor re the Hon Linda Burney
- Bright future for volunteering in Australia
- Government boosts funding for emergency volunteers
- Unpaid work counts, so measure it

INSIDE THE CENTRE
- Do you have Facebook? Tell your friends about The Centre for Volunteering!
- School of Volunteer Management updates

VOLUNTEERING JOBS
- Event volunteering opportunities
- Call for volunteer journalists

Volunteer Life, Issue 9, May 2008 – National Volunteer Week Special Edition

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK 2008
– FREE Introduction to Volunteering Seminar
- Movie ticket give-away: Un Secret

CELEBRITY AND EXECUTIVE VOLUNTEERS
- Making a difference: Ania Stepien

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Pulling out teeth in far north Queensland

DOING & GIVING
- Keeping alive the memories in Rookwood Necropolis

BOOK REVIEW
- Cholas in Bowlers by Jane Mundy

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- Liquid Ideas donate brains instead of bucks

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Volunteer caterer for the Girl Guides

VOLUNTEER PROFILE
- Surry Hills Festival organiser: Cathy Wills

FVI NEWS
- Minister's Forum on Volunteering
- People too busy to do charity work: survey
- Powerhouse Museum celebrates
- Beijing Olympics receives record volunteer applications
- Special offer for volunteers: Ophir Gold B&B discount

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Welcome: Odessa O'Brien, Maia Giordano and Mark Tippett

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- 2008 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award nominations open
- National Volunteer Week Events Calendar
- 2008 Events Calendar
- Events to volunteer for

Volunteer Life 2007 Issues

Volunteer Life, Issue 8, September 2007 – Holiday Volunteering Issue

IN FOCUS
- Holiday volunteering: What's in it for you? Heaps!
- Ethical tourism: Laying bricks in Africa and helping orphans in Asia

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Life-changing experience in the jungle
- Rice and weddings in Vietnam
- Edward Prescott: Jamming with kids in Kenya
- Theresa Pizzuto: Monitoring wild puppies in Zambia
- Hands-on tourists

FVI NEWS
- Sustainable travel on the rise: Survey

SPECIAL FEATURE
- Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World

DOING & GIVING
- Bicycle Victoria's Great Victorian Bike Ride and the 2008 Great Escapade

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- Free Bridge for Volunteering workshop

Volunteer Life, Issue 7, May 2007

SPECIAL FEATURE
- Interview with NSW Minister for Volunteering

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Making Lavender Trust cupcakes with a passion for charity

DOING & GIVING
- Homeless score a win on many levels

IN FOCUS
- Is volunteering the new sea change?

CELEBRITY AND EXECUTIVE VOLUNTEERS
- The RED Campaign – U2's Bono harnesses big business

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Performing medical miracles for Cambodian youth

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- Bain & Company's Community Impact Day

VOLUNTEER PROFILE
- Peter Batcheler: Volunteer Tour Guide with the ABC

FVI NEWS
- 99% of volunteers believe their work makes a difference: National survey finds
- New report on Maori volunteering launched

Q & A
- A day without volunteers – what would it be like?

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- School of Volunteer Management training news
- The Centre celebrates its 500th member
- Evaluation Conference Think Tank

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- Free Bridge for Volunteering workshops
- Events Calendar
- Hot Volunteer Jobs and Event Volunteer Jobs

Volunteer Life, Issue 6, March 2007

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for school children

DOING & GIVING
- Food Water Shelter Inc in Tanzania

IN FOCUS
- The rising cost of volunteering

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBRITIES TO CEOS
- Angry Anderson helps build youth centre in Ulladulla

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Storm Boy country

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- The advantages of corporate volunteering: Two sides of gardening

VOLUNTEER PROFILE
- Harry Whelan: Volunteer with a mission

FVI NEWS
- Government expands Student Volunteering Program
- No workplace agreements for volunteers

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Free qualifications for volunteers
- The 7:30 Report: Calls for better deal for volunteers
- The Centre for Volunteering's intern report
- The Centre for Volunteering supports Earth Hour

Q & A
- Volunteering: What's in it for me?

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- Free Bridge for Volunteering workshop
- National Volunteer Week, 14–20 May 2007
- Events Calendar

Volunteer Life 2006 Issues

Volunteer Life, Issue 5, December 2006

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY
- Thank you for volunteering!

DOING & GIVING
- Help drought-affected families in rural NSW and Queensland enjoy Christmas

IN FOCUS
- Australian volunteers' time worth $12.5 billion annually

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBRITIES TO CEOS
- David Gonski's views on being an Arts Board Member and the differences between the Baby Boomers and Generation Y

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Volunteering with Palms Australia in East Timor: First evacuation in 45 years

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- Lend Lease's annual September Community Day

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Bakers Delight's pink finger buns raise money for charity and community organisations

FVI NEWS
- New 'Minister for Volunteers' welcomes challenge
- Well done, Mr Iemma, for putting volunteering on the map
- Blog: Volunteer to change your life
- 2006 NAB Volunteer Award winners

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Funding awarded for new corporate volunteering project
- Lynne Dalton, CEO, judges Australian of the Year Awards
- Celebrating Volunteer Managers
- Meet our volunteers

Q & A
- Certificate 1 in Active Volunteering

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- The Centre for Volunteering's Holiday Hours

Volunteer Life, Issue 4, September 2006

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBRITIES TO CEOS
- ABC Radio 702's Adam Spencer

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Are you the next Australian Youth Ambassador?

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- Reading buddies – Corporate volunteers and UWS educational psychology students teach young readers

DOING & GIVING
- The Song Room

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- The Basket Brigade delivers the presents and the Christmas spirit

IN FOCUS
- 'Could do better' – Results of The National Survey of Volunteering Issues 2006

FVI NEWS
- Census taps into volunteering
- Unselfish youth
- Chinese volunteers support female births
- Australian retirees keen to volunteer

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Visit our stall at Sydney's Earthdance Markets
- Welcome: Alison Keene, Volunteer Services Coordinator
- Successfully judged NSW entries for NAB Volunteer Awards
- Sydney Olympic Volunteers part of Where Are They Now studio audience

Q & A
- Can I volunteer as part of my job?

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- School of Volunteer Management Training
- Events Calendar

Volunteer Life, Issue 3, June 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE
- Let's celebrate National Volunteer Week, 15–21 May 2006

DOING & GIVING
- Ship of volunteers: Restoring the lighthouse supply ship MV Cape Don

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- Going for Gold: Interview with Sydney Airport's Gold Ambassador Rhonda Miller

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Eat smart and support StreetSmart's homeless campaign

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBS TO CEOS
- From housemate to humanitarian: Big Brother's Tim Brunero

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Creating an indigenous long-term future in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea

IN FOCUS
- Getting rid of the bad apples: Preventing elder abuse

FVI NEWS
- National Bank welcomes entries for volunteer awards
- Volunteers upholding women's rights
- Chernobyl volunteers aid recovery 20 years on

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Support volunteering and change your world!
- New FONGA discussion paper
- Volunteering opportunities for disadvantaged or at-risk young people
- Volunteering: A pathway to employment

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- The Centre for Volunteering Members Breakfast Forums
- School of Volunteer Management Training

Volunteer Life, Issue 2, March 2006

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBS TO CEOS
- Nicole Kidman: Volunteer, superstar and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador to build peace

DOING & GIVING
- Fighting fire with.. education

FVI NEWS
- Call for compulsory community service for school students
- Searching for stardust, at home
- Who volunteers?
- Commonwealth Games volunteer army

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- The Body Shop's 4,500 volunteer hours

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- OzHarvest, Sydney's first 'food rescue' charity

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Protecting turtle eggs in Costa Rica

Q & A
- Q&A: Volunteers and tax

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Anonymous donor gives $10,000
- First NSW-based legal resource for volunteers and voluntary organisations
- New membership program
- New pricing structure for SVM's Accredited Courses
- Volunteer Coordinator on leave

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- National Volunteer Week, 15–21 May 2006
- Events Calendar

Volunteer Life 2005 Issue

Volunteer Life, Issue 1, December 2005

DOING & GIVING
- Experiencing life while volunteering to build peace

VOLUNTEERS: FROM CELEBS TO CEOS
- Australian Idol's Casey Donovan

FVI NEWS
- Australians big on giving and volunteering
- Sporting chance for volunteers abroad
- Charities and volunteers hit by petrol price rise
- NAB Volunteer Awards winners

ANGELS AT THE TABLE
- Just Enough Faith

COMPANIES WITH HEART & SPIRIT
- IBM trains staff to become high school teachers

IN FOCUS
- Cutting down on your fuel bill

POSTCARD WITH PURPOSE
- Volunteering in tsunami devastated Thailand

INSIDE THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTEERING
- Support International Volunteer Day – Shop for V-Store Specials

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
- International Volunteer Day | 5 December 2005
- The Centre for Volunteering Holiday Hours

 

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