While these publications may contain out of date contact details, they remain a valuable resource and we encourage organisations to use them.

Policy and Guides

• Finding the Balance: Community Protection Vs Individual Rights, Criminal History Checks for Volunteers
• Employee Volunteering & Corporate Social Responsibility: A Guide to Employee Volunteering
• Revisiting the vision 2004: Valuing Volunteering - A Shared Vision
• Revisiting the Vision 2004: Valuing Volunteering – A Shared Vision – Summary 2005-2007
• Valuing Volunteering - A Shared Vision - December 2002
• Guide to Employee Volunteering An evolving resource for public sector agencies - October 2004
• WAVE

• Guidelines for Public Sector Agencies Working with Volunteers -  Public Sector Management, April 2003
• National Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not for Profit Organisations
• Running the Risk? A Risk Management Tool for Volunteer Involving Organisations
• Volunteering Policy Consultation Framework
• Corporate volunteering handbook: A handbook for corporations and business
• Corporate Shares, Community Profits – A guide to engaging your employees
• The ABC of VRC's - 2001
• Volunteer Resource Manual - 2003

Legislation

• Volunteers (Protection from Liability) Act 2002
• Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Act 2004
• Civil Liability Act 2002
• Associations Incorporation Act 1987

Research, Journals and Reports

• Booming Recruiting: An Action Research Project - May 2004
• The Volunteer Training Scene in Western Australia: A Resource Guide for agencies - December 2003
• From "Boomnet to Boomnot" - May 2002
• "Boomnet" - Capturing the Baby Boomer Volunteers - December 2001

• Volunteer Research Framework
• Snapshot 2004: Volunteering Report Card
• A National Agenda on Volunteering: Beyond the International Year of Volunteers
• 10th National Conference on Volunteering Papers
• Australian Journal on Volunteering
• Giving Time - The Economic and Social Value of Volunteering in Victoria
• The Wider Economic Value of Social Capital and Volunteering in South Australia
• Corporate Volunteering Survey, Volunteering Australia
• Giving Australia Research Project
• Government of South Australia, Office for Volunteers - New Research on 'Family Volunteering' and 'Volunteering and Older People'
  

Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Newsletters - Valuing Volunteering

• Spring 2006 (PDF, 114kb / Word 200kb)
• Summer 2006 (PDF, 165kb / Word  100kb)
• September 2005 (PDF, 396kb)
• December 2004 (PDF, 2.6mb)
• September 2003 (PDF, 563kb)
  
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Additional Resources

• Shared Vision Training Grants Seminar (Shared Vision Training Grant Program, Volunteering Secretariat)
• Advanced Skills Training Manual for Parent Home Visitors (Shared Vision Training Grant Program, Volunteering Secretariat)
• Corporate Governance Manual (Shared Vision Training Grant Program, Volunteering Secretariat)
• Department of Local Government and Regional Development Grants Directory
• Volunteering Australia Information Sheets
• Volunteering Australia Library
• Volunteers and Taxation