Overview
Volunteer Management Activity Project Partnerships Program
The Centre is seeking to partner with external organisations to deliver projects that will provide advice, support, and resources to help enable volunteering by members of identified groups. Projects will build the capacity of volunteer managers and volunteer involving organisations (VIOs) to better engage diverse volunteers and will enhance volunteer management.
A New, Refreshed Project Partnerships Program 2025-2026 Round is Coming Soon
Register your interest via the contact form at the bottom of the page to be kept up to date about future project opportunities.
Volunteer Management Activity
The Centre for Volunteering is delivering the Volunteer Management Activity (VMA) on behalf of the Australian Government’s Department of Social Services (DSS). The objective of the VMA is to increase opportunities for people to participate in the social and economic life of their community through volunteering. Excellent Volunteer Management is key to the volunteering experience.
The focus of the VMA is:
- The delivery of online services in volunteer management to build the capacity of volunteer-involving organisations;
- Breaking down barriers to volunteering faced by identified groups; and
- An increase in service coverage across regional, rural, and remote areas.
Breaking Down Barriers to Volunteering
A major element of The Centre’s implementation of the VMA in NSW is commissioning community experts to deliver projects through the Project Partnerships Program annually. Projects must align with the focus of the Volunteer Management Activity to deliver advice, support, and resources to help enable volunteering by members of identified groups:
- First Nations Peoples
- Newly Arrived Migrants*
- People with Disability**
- Vulnerable Women
- Young People aged 12-18
- People who are unemployed
Learn more:
Breaking Down Barriers to Volunteering.
Read our reports highlighting outcomes, stories, and learnings from the first and second rounds of the Project Partnerships Program. These inspiring examples demonstrate how integrating inclusive practices into volunteer programs can empower volunteers to make meaningful contributions to their communities and the organisations they support.
Further partnerships within the Volunteer Management Activity 2021-2026
The Centre has also partnered with an extensive number of organisations in the design and delivery of online best-practice volunteer management tools, training, resources and support. Partnerships include:
Resources:
Resource sharing:
Reconciliation Action Plan:
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*Newly Arrived Migrants within their first 5 years of settlement.
**The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) defines disability as:
- total or partial loss of the person’s bodily or mental functions
- total or partial loss of a part of the body
- the presence in the body of organisms causing disease or illness
- the malfunction, malformation, or disfigurement of a part of the person’s body
- a disorder or malfunction that results in the person learning differently from a person without the disorder or malfunction
- a disorder, illness or disease that affects a person’s thought processes, perception of reality, emotions, or judgment, or that results in disturbed behaviour and includes disability that:
- presently exists or previously existed but no longer exists or may exist in the future
- is imputed to a person (meaning it is thought or implied that the person has disability but does not)
Contact
If you have any further questions regarding this opportunity, please email the VMA team:
Email vma@volunteering.com.au
This project is funded by the Department of Social Services through the Volunteer Management Activity.
