Unemployed Busying Themselves with Volunteerism

I’m not exactly sure how I feel about this article in the New York Times. Apparently newly unemployed white collar workers are beating down the doors of NYC-area nonprofits in search of volunteer opportunities. A volunteer matching website called volunteernyc.org has seen its searches increase by 30 percent over the prior year. Many of these [...]

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Thoughts on Non-profits and Governments, continued

Just to continue a bit on the themes of Diama’s post below, I wanted to call out a tangentially related piece I’d read.
At the Social Citizens blog, Allison Fine writes about the “privatization of public service.” While millenials (that’s my generation!) are much vaunted for their interest in voluntarism and non-profits, young people are sharply [...]

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SSIR’s Opinion Blog

I frequently consult the Stanford Social Innovation Review for anything cutting edge in the non-profit world. Many of my posts will probably be a commentary or link to an article or post on their website. Today, I browsed their opinion blog and realized that this might be something worth posting here. So hear you go:
http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/
The [...]

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