Volunteering and Volunteer Management in America
By: Robert T. Grimm, Jr., Corporation for National and Community Service (rgrimm@cns.gov)
The Corporation for National and Community Service, UPS Foundation and USA Freedom Corps partnered to conduct a national volunteer management capacity study and contracted the research services of the Urban Institute. The study examines the “demand-side” of the market for volunteerism and measures charitable organizations’ ability to recruit, manage, and retain volunteers.
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Nonprofit Sector Employment Growth Outpaces Business, Government
America’s nonprofit sector has significantly outpaced the for-profit and government sectors in employment growth, reports a new study from Independent Sector.
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Foundation Giving Declines in 2003
Three consecutive years of stock market losses and a sluggish and uneven economic recovery caught up with foundations in 2003. Giving by the nation’s nearly 65,000 grantmaking foundations declined an estimated 2.5 percent to $29,7 billion last year, down from just over $30 billion in 2002 and 2001, according to the Foundation Center’s new report, Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates.
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Regulatory Reform of Australia’s Not-for-Profit Sector
By: Susan Woodward, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (s.woodward@unimelb.edu.au)
A final research report titled “A Better Framework: Reforming Not-for-Profit Regulation” (Susan Woodward and Shelley Marshall) has been released and is available free online or can be ordered by visiting http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/activities/not-for-profit/. The report is the result of a three-year research project conducted at the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at the University of Melbourne in collaboration with Philanthropy Australia Inc. (a primary body for non-government grant makers).
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New, Revised ARNOVA Abstracts Debuts
ARNOVA members have begun receiving a new, revised ARNOVA Abstracts as a membership benefit. The quarterly publication is sent with the ARNOVA-member newsletter—ARNOVA News—and includes abstracts of working papers, studies, reports, theses and dissertations from a number of journals. This is a great resource to help busy practitioners keep up with the latest literature in the field.
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The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part II: Unifying the Organization after a Merger has been published by the Wilder Publishing Center (www.wilder.org/pubs).

BoardSource (www.boardsource.org) has published Minding the Money: An Investment Guide for Nonprofit Board Members.

Jossey-Bass recently released the following books:

  • Why Nonprofits Fail: Overcoming Founder’s Syndrome, Fundphobia, and Other Obstacles to Success (by Stephen R. Block);
  • Designing & Planning Programs for Nonprofit and Government Organizations (by Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D. Vinter);
  • The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership & Management, Second Edition (by Robert D. Herman & Associates);
  • Foundations and Evaluation: Contexts and Practices for Effective Philanthropy (Edited by Marc T. Braverman, Norman A. Constantine, Jana Kay Slater);
  • Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education (by Barbara E. Walvoord);
  • Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery and Forgiveness (by Larry C. Spears and Michele Lawrence);
  • Government Accounting Made Easy (by Warren Ruppel);
  • Planning Guide for The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (by Bruce R. Hopkins);
  • Human Resource Policies and Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations (by Carol L. Barbeito);
  • Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition (by Joan E. Pynes);
  • Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (by John M. Bryson);
  • Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan (by John M. Bryson and Farnum K. Alston); and,
  • Building Donor Loyalty (by Adrian Sargeant and Elaine Jay).   

For more information, visit www.josseybass.com.

   


July 14-17
Association of Leadership Educators 2004 Annual Conference, “The Soul of Leadership,” Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tenn.; Contact: Association of Leadership Educators at www.leadershipeducators.org

August 12-15
Alliance for Nonprofit Management Annual Conference, “Empowering the Nonprofit Sector,” Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C.; Contact: www.allianceonline.org.

August 26-27
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University 17th Annual Symposium, Co-hosted by the National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc., “Black Philanthropy: Strategies for Building on the Heritage,” Indianapolis, Ind.; Contact: The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University at 317-274-4200 or at www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/.

October 12-15
24th International Fundraising Congress (IFC), NH Leeuwenhorst Hotel, The Netherlands; Contact: The Resource Alliance at www.resource-alliance.org.

October 20-23
2004 International Conference on Volunteer Administration, “Journey of Discovery: Charting Your Course,” Portland, Ore.; Contact: Association for Volunteer Administration at 804-672-3353; website: www.avaintl.org.

November 7-9
Independent Sector 2004 Annual Conference, “Making Participation Count,” The Fairmont Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; Contact: Independent Sector at www.independentsector.org.

November 18-20
33rd Annual ARNOVA Conference, Omni Los Angeles Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif.; Contact: ARNOVA at 317-684-2120; website: www.arnova.org.

   


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