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SP0173 The challenges of a small organization
When a group of citizens establishes a non-profit and a non-government organisation in our country, those volunteers are carried by great enthusiasm. At the beginning when founding an NGO the main problems are lack of experience and financial resources. Those deficiencies can be overcome by some other qualities such as the personal competencies of volunteers.As NGOs are seen by the public rather critically in our country, our organization had to face several additional challenges. In my presentation I will illustrate the following aspects: the non-attractiveness of NGOs for volunteers, the lack of awareness how volunteering is important for a society, the lack of knowledge how to attract volunteers and how to manage them, the lack of knowledge how to define the volunteers' positions and how to monitor their work, the lack of their systemic, continuing education and the lack of rewards, recognition and appreciation to acknowledge the most dedicated volunteers.Disclosure of InterestNone declared
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Volunteering for All – Scotland’s national framework
IntroductionVolunteering for All: national framework was developed by the Scottish Government jointly with partners from the volunteer and community sector, local government, NHS, and with volunteers.The objective of the Framework is to:• provide a coherent and compelling narrative for volunteering;• Define the key outcomes desired for volunteering over the next ten years;• Identify the key data and evidence to inform, indicate and drive performance; and• to inform the optimal combination of programmes, investments and interventions.Scottish Government convened a group, November 2020, of stakeholders to discuss the creation of the Volunteering Action Plan based on this high level ‘framework'.Aims Objectives Theory or MethodsThe overall vision is Scotland where everyone can volunteer, more often, and throughout their lives.The Volunteering Action Plan provides practical ‘actions on the ground’ achieved through co-production, learning and a spirit of reciprocity involving volunteers, communities and public and private sectors at all development stages.The Plan’s development is modelled on the Human Learning Systems (HLS) which is a response to complexity developed by Dr Toby Lowe and Collaborate CIC and involves utilising various methods and tools.Highlights or Results or Key FindingsThe aim is to co-produce ‘The Plan’ through a group and individual ‘HLS’ learning journey:• Explore the HLS methodology and reflect upon its implications (be part of a learning community)• Enquire through considering evidence and introducing ‘lived experience’• Understand the system, the existing state and the ‘ideal’; what a purpose and vision should be.• Change the system. In this action planning context this is about scoping activity but it’s also about experimentation.Within the timeframe of one year we’ll translate five outcome areas into specific actions. The Plan will be a ‘living document’ which will continue to be reviewed, updated and enhanced over the next decade.As important, participants will learn about their role within a complex system and a very different approach to enacting change (i.e. learning, building relationships and experimentation). This is a competing approach to the dominant paradigm; new public management (Shalock & Bonham, 2003).ConclusionsThis Plan process is transformational, recognising outcomes are achieved by systems rather than organisations. This process is innovative and inclusive, involving volunteers, communities and organisations. Important outputs are a ‘living document’ for the next decade and a more resilient sector, able to adapt and change, relevant in 2021 and beyond.Implications for applicability/transferability sustainability and limitationsA range of materials will be generated: an online toolkit and process evaluation. This Plan process can be repeated by other cohorts; a ‘live’ plan is a national ‘test and learn’ programme.This provides important learning for HLS applied to other contexts as part of an international HLS learning community.
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Making volunteers
Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? InMaking Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach.
With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult \"plug-in\" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers.
Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations,Making Volunteersillustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.
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Volunteer : a traveller's guide to making a difference around the world
\"Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travellers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities and this book has all the advice you need to get there. Much more than just a resource directory, 'Volunteer' is packed with invaluable information and full-colour inspiration to get you planning your perfect short- or long-term volunteer experience anywhere in the world. Whether it's monitoring sea turtles in Greece, helping set up handicraft businesses in Ghana or building community centres in Guatemala, you'll find amazing opportunities in this fully updated, comprehensive new edition.\"--Amazon.com.
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