The Centre for Volunteering's research reports

View the latest research reports, toolkits and guides from The Centre for Volunteering's Research and Policy team:

Reimbursement and Value of Volunteer Effort (March 2010)
The latest research report from The Centre for Volunteering's Research and Policy team examines reimbursement of volunteers for their out-of-pocket expenses as well as assessing the value of a volunteers' effort in the not-for-profit sector of NSW. Volunteer effort is represented in monetary terms as hours of work comparative to an equivalent paid employee role in a similar style of organisation. MORE

"Highly Skilled with Insufficient English" Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Volunteers Utilisation (June 2008)
This project was initiated by The Centre for Volunteering (The Centre) as a result of its research department becoming aware from various sources that the number of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people wanting to volunteer was increasing and that a substantial number of people from CALD backgrounds were found to have difficulties communicating in English. MORE

Frontier of Opportunity: Critical Success Factors of Employee Volunteering Programs for the Small-to-Medium Not-for-Profit Sector research report and Employee Volunteer Programs Toolkit and Guide (May 2008)
The Centre for Volunteering has been investigating best practice into how corporate Employee Volunteering Programs (EVPs) successfully connect with small-to-medium not-for-profit organisations. The results from this research have guided the development of a toolkit for NFP organisations wishing to set up or manage their own EVPs. MORE

Law Report: It's a bit of a minefield (April 2007)
The Centre for Volunteering is pleased to release its findings on the legal issues and needs survey conducted in 2007 with valuable support from The Law and Justice Foundation of NSW. For the first time in NSW, we have obtained information from 283 of our member organisations about the types of legal issues volunteering organisations face, the resources they currently use to deal with them and ideally the resources organisations would like to access to better help them with any type of legal issue associated with volunteering.
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The Centre for Volunteering's 2006 Membership Report
A survey was sent to members of The Centre for Volunteering in late 2005 and enabled us to obtain feedback about the status of our members, the services they used, what they most valued about The Centre and what areas they thought could be improved. This provided relevant information about how we are conducting our role as the state's peak body for volunteering organisations. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT