News in the Volunteer Field Blog

e-Volunteerism: The Electronic Journal for the Volunteer Community is a quarterly subscription journal written for volunteer leadership colleagues around the world who want to be informed and challenged about volunteering trends and issues. Now in its 13th year, subscribers can access a new issue every three months, each offering 8 brand new articles from authors in many different volunteer-involving settings and from every continent. In addition, all past articles dating back to the first issue in 2000 remain available to subscribers in the online Archives—a true benefit of timeless information about on all aspects of volunteer involvement.

How can you challenge and educate volunteers who themselves perpetuate negative thinking about volunteering?

Community Service Volunteers in the UK has conducted research to “review trends and developments within employee volunteering and to explore how to make its benefits accessible and meaningful to more public, private and third sector organisations and employees,” and has just released a new report

In 2012, the IRS raised the “standard business mileage rate” to 56.5 cents per mile, a figure that has kept rising in recent years as the cost of gasoline climbs. However, the deduction rate for charitable driving remains at 14 cents per mile (where it has been for over a decade) because it is set as a fixed rate in federal statute. Guest blogger, Luxiaofei Liis discusses.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that the overall rate of volunteering has dropped by 0.3 percent, with the steepest decline occurring in the age group of 45-67, but is this really the whole story?