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For more than a century, women’s leadership has been central to shaping the voluntary and community sectors in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This Engage feature by Cheryll Martin explores that evolution—from early grassroots organising and wartime mobilisation to today’s complex,…

Due to the history of philanthropy, nonprofit and civic organizations have mostly built their engagement infrastructure around a single question: Is this person willing to serve? And that willingness to serve, author Breauna Dorelus argues, automatically generates moral…

When it comes to the user experience and digital volunteering workflows in Volunteer Engagement, what is needed and what has changed with the introduction of AI? Ahead of the Curve’s Sam Fankuchen dives into these dilemmas and more in this issue, and delivers a surprise or two.…

“Experience required” has long been a standard in volunteer recruitment, an understandable way to ensure that competent people fill key leadership roles. But when prior experience becomes the main pathway to meaningful participation, it’s worth asking how that readiness is built…

When asked if they had volunteered, only a few students raised their hands. Ten minutes later, almost all of them had their hands in the air. What if the problem isn’t that people don’t volunteer – but that they don’t recognize it? In this reflective piece, Voices Co-…

Researchers and practitioners alike have long discussed the relationship between volunteering and monetary donations, particularly with respect to the question of whether these two forms of giving are substitutes or complements of one another. Despite these discussions, those in…

“Who cares?” When it comes to volunteer impact, that’s the question Volunteer Engagement experts Rob Jackson, Erin R. Spink, Sue Carter Kahl and Jessica Pang-Parks strive to answer in this issue’s Points of View. Watch and learn from this video conversation as these four experts…