Volunteerism

For those of you not familiar with this site, I’ve been blogging here since 2003. Did we even call it blogging back then? That’s a question for internet historian and my co-author Randal Moss to answer. No matter what the answer is it’s been my home for a long time. But times change and people move. This will be my ...

The City of Austin is looking for ways in increase volunteerism across the city. As volunteers that have already found meaningful volunteer opportunities, you know that volunteers are directly taking action to solve our community challenges. To create the most useful tools for volunteers, we would like your thoughts on your own volunteer experience. Please fill out the following short ...

As many of you know I have been working with the City of Austin on their long term volunteerism and community service strategy. At this point the City of Austin is beginning to plan initiatives to support volunteers and volunteer managers across the city. We recognize the vital role volunteer programs play in addressing Austin’s most-pressing issues. Because your work ...

Whew. Always a mouthful even to type that. If you remember this is the City of Austin task force that I am serving with. I’ve been very interested to see the discussion ebb and flow over the last few months till we decided to concentrate on community service and volunteerism. Our last meeting was a particularly interesting one in which ...