Expanding Circles: Disabled people volunteering for themselves and for the wider community
This year the Leir Institute chose to deal with a difficult topic during its annual conference. Most organizations tend to shy away from this issue. The conference provided us with a unique opportunity to get together with volunteer managers from Yad Sarah and other organizations in the voluntary sector, who are involved with thinking and working with disabled volunteers. Leading...
Does the media really understand volunteerism?
Yesterday the Volunteer Unit in Joint Israel organised a professional gathering on Volunteer Management in a Changing Reality to celebrate the International Day of Volunteers. The organisers invited Rino Tzror, a leading Israeli journalist who is a known advocate of social issues, to speak at one of the plannery sessions. He spoke about the relationship between the media and organisations...
Recruiting Volunteers: are the right questions asked in volunteer management
One of the most frequent questions raised by volunteer managers to the Leir Institute is “how do I recruit more volunteers?”. Are volunteer managers really asking the right questions when facing this issue. Are we stuck in a particular frame of mind and can only see the problem from one angle. Let’s take for example an organization that is running...
The Volunteer’s Fantasies: A Challenge to the Volunteer Manager
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