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Right after posting on "The Selfish Volunteer", I noticed David’s post on Self-organizing action. My interest piqued, I popped on over to Emergency Communities and found a very interesting quote that dovetails nicely with my previous post and even more so with Ed Duke’s post, The New Unaffiliated Volunteers. …in the midst of all this devastation, something beautiful happened. Volunteers, ...

David was looking out for me today and sent me a short article on the rise of the selfish volunteer. Volunteers get both intrinsic and extrinsic value out of the act of volunteering. This article focuses on the extrinsic. From the article. Volunteers are increasingly interested in what they can get out of volunteering, and nonprofits must adapt, a new ...

The American Cancer Society did a huge amount of work helping cancer patients get back on track with treatment in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Hear my podcast with a staff in Mid-South not long after the storm.) Devastated clinics, lost records, and many other problems were deterrents to the continuity badly needed by people under treatment. That’s an ongoing ...

The current conversation about the Washington Post’s decision to pull comments off a blog on its web site includes a CNet story saying the Post will now try to publish some of the comments sans the ones with offensive language. Editor Jim Brady says the Post tried to monitor the site, but it took too many people to keep up ...