Volunteer retention is often touted as a key metric of success for volunteer-engaging organizations. However, there is an ongoing debate across the volunteer sector about whether the focus should be on retaining volunteers or on ensuring they have a positive and...
Volunteering is one of the most important issues impacting the wellbeing of the IFRC network and its ability to fulfil its humanitarian mission. In our consultations, ‘Volunteer engagement and support’ was cited as the second most important priority for the...
Photo Credits: Red Cross Aruba and Red Cross Curaçao Reaching 3500% more people than before - Red Cross’ road to digitalisation in the Dutch Caribbean (Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten). The Red Cross branches in the Dutch...
Should volunteers be paid for their labour? Such a question may seem a contradiction in terms – isn’t the point of volunteering that you give time for free? But newly published research from Northumbria University’s Centre for International Development and the...
COVID-19 ushers in Tele-Volunteering Tree planting, home building, food service, elder care. These traditional volunteer activities date back to the birth of civilization. In fact, the Bible, Quran, Torah, and Buddhism refer to gifts of service, charity to mankind,...
General CoordinatorSpanish Red Cross Spanish Red Cross has more than 155 years of experience responding to emergencies of a very different nature. The capacities we have developed over these years have helped us facing this crisis that has been an unprecedented...