Future of VolunteerismManagement of Volunteers

1
Future of Volunteerism/Management of Volunteers

• Martin J Cowling,

2
Ivan H. Scheier, 1926-2008
3
1998 to 2008

• What has changed?

4
Five Challenges for Volunteerism?

• Attitudes to Volunteering
• Demographics
• Discovery of volunteering
• Control of Volunteering
• Global issues

5
Attitudes to Volunteering

• There are some clear differences between the
  Generations and their attitudes to volunteering

6
Demographics

• Silent Generation
• Baby Boomers
• Generation X
• Generation Y
• Generation Z

7
Silent Generation

• Also known as Builders or Long Civic
• Born 1929-1945
• Aged 63
• High rate of Church Civic Participation
• (Paul Hogan 8 October 1939 )

8
Baby Boomers

• Born 1946 to 1961/64?
• 42 to 60 year old
• High rate of Church Participation
• (Mel GibsonJanuary 31956)

9
Generation X

• Latch Key Generation
• Born 1965 to 1979
• Childhood of uncertainty
• High Civic involvement
• Low church involvement
• (KylieMinogue 28 May 1968 OrlandoBloom 13 Jan
  1977)

10
Generation Y

• Born 1980 to 1994
• 14 to 28 years old
• High Civic/ lower church participation
• (Frankie Muñiz 5-Dec-1985)

11
Generation Z

• 1995 to 2009
• Aged under 13
• (Abigail Breslin April 14, 1996)

12
Attitudes to Volunteering

• Silent Loyal, lower skilled
• Baby Boomer highly skilled, passionate,
  consumers
• Generation X Experiential/Time poor/Meaningful
• Generation Y Entrepreneur/Face Book

13
Demographics

• 69 of social service volunteers are aged 65
• Social Services demand faces dramatic growth
• Demand for employees will require people to enter
  workforce earlier and stay longer

14
Discovery of Volunteering

• Not for Profits
• Government interest
• Corporate
• Volunteers

15
Control of Volunteering

• OHS laws
• Working with children
• Insurance rules
• Liability concerns
• Litigious society
• Food Handling laws

16
Global Issues

• Anxiety about world
• Desire to impact on world
• Cost of Volunteering
• Natural disaster related volunteerism

17
What do we need to do?

• Flexibility 74 of volunteers want greater
  flexibility
• Meaning/ Results orientated volunteering
• Variety of Options
• Bite size volunteering
• Learning
• Respect
• Professionalism

18
Why?

• To meet social, environmental and political needs
  
• Civil society is built on participation and
  engagement
• Overcome individual isolation
• This means re-orientating how we view and present
  volunteering in our organisations