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This is the master database of all items in the Archive, including the books, journal articles and Timeline items referenced elsewhere on this website. This database is searchable by title, author, type, and topic. Special tags also exist for Research, Non-US/International items, and documents specifically related to the history of the Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA). All PDF documents may be downloaded for free. If you identify errors, please contact us immediately so we can make the necessary corrections.
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2004 | Understanding Volunteers and Volunteer Groups (Canada) |
Nunavut Network and Northwest Territories Network of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2006 | CAN DO! Working together to Tackle Disablism (United Kingdom) |
Scope and Leonard Cheshire, London UK | Danielle Moore, Stephanie Fishlock | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2006 | Exhibiting Support...Developing Volunteering in Museums (United Kingdom) |
Institute for Volunteering Research, London UK | Angela Ellis Paine, Justin Davis Smith, Steven Howlett | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
1995 | Family Volunteering: The Ties That Bind (Canada) |
Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area & Voluntary Action Program, Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada | Kristen Porritt | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2002 | Get it Right from the Start: Volunteer Policies, the key to diverse volunteer involvement (United Kingdom) |
The National Centre for Volunteering, London UK | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
1999 | Mentors Strengthen Student Community Service |
SerVermont | Cynthia Parsons | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2004 | Promising Practices for Volunteer Administration in Hospitals - A Manual (Canada) |
Canadian Centre for Philanthropy | Femida Handy, Robert Mound, Lisa-Marie Vaccaro, Karin Prochazka | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2007 | Volunteering Works: Volunteering and Social Policy (United Kingdom) |
Institute for Volunteering Research and Volunteering England, UK | Nick Ockenden | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2003 | Maintaining A Quality Internship Program |
Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania | Michael True | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2005 | Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers: A Guide for Faith- and Community-Based Service Providers |
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2007 | Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering |
FSG Social impact Advisors, Pfizer, Inc., and The Brookings Institution | Greg Hills, Adeeb Mahmud | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2007 | Turn Your Organisation Into A Volunteer Magnet |
Andy Fryar, Rob Jackson, Fraser Dyer | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2007 | Volunteer Management Competencies: Indicators for Novice to Expert |
Maine Commission for Community Service and University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service | Anne Schink, Lawrence Ullian | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2009 | Working with Technical Volunteers: A Manual for Nonprofit Organizations |
TechSoup Global | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2000 | AVA Annual Report 2000 |
Association for Volunteer Administration archives | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2001 | AVA Annual Report 2001 |
Association for Volunteer Administration archives | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2002 | AVA Annual Report 2002 |
Association for Volunteer Administration archives | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2004 | AVA Annual Report 2003-4 |
Association for Volunteer Administration archives | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
1996 | Ice Breakers for Cool Volunteers and Managers |
Association for Volunteer Administration archives | Barbara Baker | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
1981 | Voluntarism: A Workbook on How to Build or Improve a Volunteer Program |
University of Wisconsin Extension | Gene Glover, Michele Mickelson | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2011 | Telling The Whole Story |
Nora L. Silver | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
2001 | Your Guide to Youth Board Involvement and the Law |
Youth on Board | Jenny Sazama, Karen S. Young | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2009 | AVRBC Standards of Practice |
Administrators of Volunteer Resources BC | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
1984 | Meanwhile...Back at the Neighborhood |
Yellowfire Press, Boulder, CO | Ivan H. Scheier | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
1981 | The People Approach Handbook |
Yellowfire Press, Boulder, CO | Ivan H. Scheier | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | |
2000 | A Matter of Survival: Volunteering By, In, and With Low-Income Communities |
Points of Light Foundation | Pamphlet / Booklet | Download | ||
1991 | Service Learning from A to Z: Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve |
Vermont Schoolhouse Press, Chester, VT 1991 | Cynthia Parsons | Book | Download | |
1989 | Dealing With Difficult Volunteers A toolkit from which to draw strategies for dealing with the many types of difficult behavior that can be exhibited by volunteers. |
VMSystems, Volunteer Management Series | Marilyn MacKenzie | Book | Download | |
1994 | Everything You Need To Do Before You Begin To Recruit: Research The first booklet in PROVOL's Volunteer Management Made Easy Series, which includes: Research, Recruit, Retain, and Recognize. This booklet on Research covers the work to be done before that new volunteer walks through the door for the first time, even when the pressure to recruit new volunteers can be pretty intense. |
PROVOL, Mess, AZ | Jim Bottorf, Judy Bottorf, Maggie King | Book | Download | |
1994 | How To Find The Ideal Volunteers: Target Your Recruiting The second booklet in PROVOL's Volunteer Management Made Easy Series, which includes: Research, Recruit, Retain, and Recognize. This booklet on recruiting advises us to forget outdated perceptions of volunteers and, then, presents a process of recruiting for skills and talents necessary to meet our agencies' needs in a timely and effective manner. |
PROVOL, Mesa, AZ | Jim Bottorf, Judy Bottorf, Maggie King | Book | Download | |
1999 | The GRANDfriends Project: A Program Creating Friendships Across the Generations (Leader's Guide) |
Fairview Press, Minneapolis, MN | Martin Kimeldorf | Book | Download | |
1987 | But That's Not What My Mom Does (a book about volunteers) This is the story of a young girl's search to discover what exactly is a volunteer. Written for elementary-aged children, the book explores the concepts that the image of volunteering can differ greatly, and the opportunities to help our community are endless. |
Why Not Publishing Co., 1987 | Wendy Hollo | Book | Download | |
1976 | Releasing the Potential of the Older Volunteer |
Older Volunteer Project, Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Los Angeles, CA | Book | Download | ||
1971 | The Volunteer Community: creative use of human resources |
Center for a Voluntary Society, Washington, DC | Eva Schindler-Rainman, Ronald Lippitt | Book | Download | |
1992 | A Book of Case Studies for Training Volunteers (Canada) A resource for training volunteers to develop analytical and problem-solving skills, this book is a compilation of realistic situations that volunteers may face while volunteering. Leaders of volunteer involvement can use the case studies to prepare volunteers via group discussions or role playing. |
Johnstone Training and Consultation | Patricia Harvey, Ginette Johnstone | Book | Download | |
2002 | Church Puzzle Game An interactive group activity for religious leaders for analyzing how their congregations work, conducting an organizational analysis of their organization, and identifying areas that deserve further attention. Though The Church Puzzle Game uses the word ‘‘church” in its title and instructions, the content of the Game was written with the intention to help any faith community, religious body, or house of worship. |
Energize, Inc. | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
2003 | Rants and Rave Anthology, The Essays written by leading authors in the volunteer world in 2002 about "what was on their mind." Authors included are: Cara Blank, Susan J. Ellis, Melissa Eystad, Andy Fryar, Linda L. Graff, Stephen McCurley, Ivan H. Scheier, Betty Stallings, Sue Vineyard and Bill Wittich. |
Energize, Inc. | Book | Download | ||
1992 | When Everyone's a Volunteer: The Effective Functioning of All-Volunteer Groups Provides an innovative framework for successfully leading an all-volunteer effort, whether it's a service club, community group, PTA, or religious congregation. Scheier challenges conventional wisdom about boards, fundraising, and membership development when applied to grassroots volunteer efforts. A highlight of the book is a collection of easy-to-conduct group interaction exercises. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
2000 | Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles: A Guide for Dream-Chasers and Dream-Catchers Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles caps Ivan Scheier's long career as philosopher, provocateur, and conscience of the volunteer field. He urges us all to nurture dreams--our own and those of others. But this is also a practical, you-can-do-it guidebook for activist volunteers and their mentors, showing what dreamers and "Dream-Catchers" must do to bring dreams to life; how to look beyond money as a need, obstacle or trap; ways to get past barriers, bigots, and anchors; how to create a dream-friendly environment; and what makes dreams die...and what makes them live. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
1991 | Children As Volunteers: Preparing for Community Service How to incorporate children into an adult volunteer program and find creative ways to use children's fresh perspectives. Includes examples of actual volunteer projects accomplished by youngsters, models of child-adult teams and tips on family volunteering. Learn how to recruit, train and design assignments for volunteers under the age of 14. |
Energize | Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell, Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
2003 | Building Staff Volunteer Relations Helps employees and volunteers work together successfully by exploring the reasons for conflict between volunteers and employees. Scheier eases the all-too-common stresses of this relationship with a step-by-step process for analyzing tasks and work preferences for both paid and unpaid staff. Offers a great number of creative and practical solutions. Contains lots of useful planning guides. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
2005 | By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition By the People remains the only book available presenting the full scope and depth of volunteer activity throughout three centuries of American history. Originally published in 1978, Susan Ellis and Katie Campbell reissued this revised New Century Edition in 2005. The book challenges misunderstandings about the role of volunteers and illuminates the impact of volunteers throughout history. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis, Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell | Book | Download | |
1999 | What We Learned (the Hard Way) about Supervising Volunteers Packed with the advice, wisdom, and experience of over 85 real-life, on-the-job supervisors of volunteers, this guide offers a crystal clear analysis of what works and what doesn't in supervision. It also includes comments from volunteers about what they need from those who supervise them, as well as excerpts from classic articles and books by experts in the field and a self-assessment survey covering the attitudes and actions necessary to be an effective supervisor. |
Energize | Jarene Frances Lee | Book | Download | |
1999 | Focus on Volunteering KOPY KIT® Contains 117 formatted, ready-to-print and copy pages, each about a specific volunteering subject such as working with volunteers, the history of volunteering, and trends in volunteerism. The KOPY KIT also includes a section of ready-to-use graphics including "thank you" and "we miss you" letters, certificates and awards, recruitment flyers and even greeting cards. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
2003 | Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Recordkeeping Systems, 21st Century Edition A step-by-step guide to the basic elements of a volunteer recordkeeping system. Includes the why and how of application forms, volunteer data files, assignment records, time and activity reports - for individual volunteers, groups, and off-site service, too. Lots of sample forms, ideas for documenting hard-to-track activities, and ways to demonstrate the work you do in managing volunteer involvement. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis, Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell | Book | Download | |
2008 | Visionary Leadership in Volunteer Programs: Insight and Inspiration from the Speeches of Marlene Wilson Marlene Wilson moves from the hows to the whys of leading volunteer programs. She urges all who lead volunteers to move beyond thinking of themselves as managers to thinking of themselves as leaders—those who develop vision for volunteer programs and impart that vision throughout an organization. Includes16 of her most popular presentations from 1974 to 1999. |
Energize | Marlene Wilson | Book | Download | |
2002 | The Volunteer Recruitment Book The book first shows how to design the best assignments for volunteers as the initial step to recruit the most qualified people. What follows is a wealth of information on topics ranging from how your organization's image affects your success in recruitment to where to look for new volunteers, including your own backyard. The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book also offers a whole chapter on membership development for all-volunteer organizations, including how to get current members "off the rolls and on their feet." The Appendix,"Outreach in Cyberspace," explains the Internet as a powerful recruitment tool. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
1992 | Volunteer Recognition Skit Kit This collection of seven original skits is complete with instructions, scripts and ideas for adaptation. Each skit incorporates songs using well-known popular music with lyrics written for the volunteer recognition occasion. Song sheets can be used separately. |
Energize | Arlene Grubbs, Evelyn Levine | Book | Download | |
1980 | Building the Collaborative Community From the preface: The authors of this book are social scientists with practical and tested strategies for rebuilding collaborative communities. An important feature of this book is that the authors are not prescriptive-they don't tell you what should be done; they are descriptive - they tell you what has been done that you can draw on. They are reporting on their own action research, done while serving as consultants to eighty-eight communities. From this rich experience they are able to portray a variety of strategies adaptable to a variety of situations. |
University of California Extension | Eva Schindler-Rainman, Ronald Lippitt | Book | Download | |
2002 | Family Volunteering - Ready, Set, Go A handbook developed for Volunteer Centers, offering tools needed to add family volunteering to existing community involvement activities. There are tips and tricks for every Volunteer Center, from inviting families to join single days of service to creating an entire mission for promoting volunteering by families. |
Points of Light Foundation | Marie Bouvier | Book | Download |