Resources relevant to volunteering and community strengthening
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Tracking What Works Report (2007)
“Tracking What Works: Voluntary activity, community strengthening and local government” was funded through the Department of Planning and Community Development. Professor Sue Kenny, Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University led the research. The report explores the relationship between voluntary activity and community strengthening from a local government perspective drawing on the experience and reflections of 15 Victorian councils. The report includes:
- insights from local government case studies
- reference to contemporary approaches to voluntary activity and community strengthening
- reflections on the literature and national and international thinking on volunteering and community strengthening
- identification of issues, dilemmas and opportunities
- suggestions for practical steps forward
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Workshop Notes and Presentations
Capacity Development Events
The Local and Regional Resource Networks project has hosted several events for the local government sector addressing the role and development of voluntary activity in building healthy sustainable communities, including Australian and overseas perspectives. These activities have focused on the challenges and opportunities posed for local government in responding strategically to changing patterns of formal and non formal community participation.
A briefing was held in October 2006 on Tracking What Works, a report developed for the MAV by the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights at Deakin University. Tracking What Works provides a framework to reflect on the experience of councils and communities dealing with the impact of changing community participation patterns and the need for new ways to stimulate and support voluntary activity at a community level.
Websites
Department of Planning and Community Development
The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) has been established to closely link planning with community development to build active, confident, and inclusive communities. The Community Development team offer strategic direction for community strengthening work across the Department, across government, and in local communities. It does this by supporting and coordinating local and state-wide initiatives in partnership with government, non-government, academic and business groups.
Volunteering Australia
Volunteering Australia is the national peak body working to advance volunteering in the Australian community. Its role is to represent the diverse views and needs of the volunteer sector while promoting the activity of volunteering as one of enduring social, cultural and economic value.
www.volunteeringaustralia.org
Volunteering Victoria
Volunteering Victoria is a not for profit, non-government state peak body representing all aspects of the volunteering sector in this state. It provides services to its members (not for profit organisations), volunteers, business and government.
Institute for Volunteering Research
The Institute for Volunteering Research aims to develop knowledge and understanding of volunteering in a way that is relevant to practitioners and policy makers. This site provides an overview of the work of the Institute, as well as detailed summaries of research that it has undertaken.
http://www.ivr.org.uk
International Association for Volunteer Effort
The International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes, celebrates and strengthens volunteerism worldwide. IAVE has individual and organisational members in some 80 countries around the world.
http://www.iave.org