History/Philosophy/Ethics
Books
and e-Volunteerism articles on this topic
Articles and book
excerpts on this topic:
- In
Frontier Days: From good neighbours to the earliest voluntary organizations, by Volunteer Zone -- brief essay on Canadian volunteering history
- The
Language of Volunteering - A Time for Vigilance, by
Bill Gunyon
- Nonprofit
Themes in Fiction, list of novels incorporating philanthropy
and service in their content (Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center site)
- The Past Is Prologue, from the book By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century
Edition, by Susan J. Ellis and Katherine H. Campbell (2005)
- Professional Ethics in Volunteer Administration, originally developed by the former Association for Volunteer Administration and kept current by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (http://www.cvacert.org).
- Rethinking
Volunteer Engagement, from Volunteer Canada
- "A
Role Beyond Service," keynote speech by Wendy Puriefoy
at the 2004 Alliance for Nonprofit Management conference, challenging
organizations to mobilize in the face of current events
- Servi-Tourism,
by Ann Hulbert for Slate
- Understanding
Service: Words in the Context of History and Culture (free
pdf file), multi-cultural study of the words used for "service,"
from the Global Service Institute
- Virtuous Giving, from Virtuous
Giving
- Volunteering:
The Human Face of Democracy, by Jennifer Wilkinson and Michael
Bittman, Social Policy Research Centre,
University of New South Wales, Australia (2002, PDF)
- Volunteering:
Noble Gesture or the Logic of Necessity?, detailed book review
of Volunteers and Volunteering, highlighting
key issues in Australia and elsewhere.
Free electronic books on this subject:
A History of Nonprofit Boards in the United States
30-page PDF by Peter Dobkin Hall (BoardSource, 2003)
Web sites with useful
information on this topic:
"Anti" Volunteerism
Positions and Arguments http://www.serviceleader.org/
new/managers/2003/04/000089.php Articles compiled by Jayne Cravens
explaining the perspective of those against volunteering.
Also see the "Campaign against Servitude" at the Ayn Rand Institute site: http://www.aynrand.org/no_servitude/index.html
Codes of Ethics
http://philanthropy.com/jobs/2004/06/24/20040624-351162.htm
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
has compiled this list of online resources for creating codes of
ethics.
Ethics Q&A Archives – “Doing Good Right”
http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/archive/aeth.html
From CharityVillage NewsWeek (Canada), this archive of questions and answers to ethical questions by Jane Garthson focuses on sticky issues confronted by nonprofit boards.
The Faces of Volunteering
http://www.wesleymission.org.au/
publications/volunteers/default.asp
Multi-section report by
the Wesley Mission in Australia for International Year of Volunteers
2001 to generate increased awareness of the achievements of past
and present volunteers and highlight the future potential of volunteering.
Famous and Celebrity
Philanthropists
http://fdncenter.org/focus/
youth/kids_teens/youth_celebrity.html
Brief bio notes and links
on the Youth in Philanthropy site of The Foundation Center.
Helping the
Poor: Friendly visiting, dole charities and dole queues
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs16.pdf
155-page PDF by Robert
Whelan for Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London,
2001, examining the roots of organized charity in England from the
"volunteer person of leisure" to paid social workers.
Heroes of History
http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com/cgi-bin/iowa/english/history.html
Interactive timeline of
people and organizations in the US who have contributed to safety,
the environment, and quality of life, from the 1920s to the present.
On the Volvo for Life Awards site.
Historical Sketches,
Essays and Pamphlets
http://indiamond.ulib.iupui.edu/PRO
Archival material from
the IUPUI University Library's Philanthropy Resources Online collection.
Project Volunteer.cz
http://www.volunteer.cz/#
The English-language site
of the volunteer resource center in the Czech Republic on which
there are several provocative articles about the meaning of volunteering
in socialist and formerly-communist countries.
Schools of
Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs19.pdf
70-page PDF by Frank Prochaska
for Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London, 2002,
thoughtfully examining the history of voluntary collective action
in Britain versus the rise of the welfare state.
Voluntary Action
History Society
http://www.vahs.org.uk/?page_id=7
Series of papers from
this UK-based association for the historical analysis of voluntary
action and the history of charitable and voluntary organizations.
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