Attracting volunteers in the 21st century is a challenge. While some research shows that volunteering has remained steady over recent years, IFUW and other women’s organizations have seen their membership figures slowly decreasing. It is therefore important to understand what kind of organizations and activities are still attracting volunteers.
Apart from the economic and social benefits to the state and community-building, individual benefits seem to be an important aspect of volunteering. On Wikipedia one can read: “volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to improve human quality of life, …but people also volunteer for their own skill development, …to meet others …and to have fun”.
What do volunteers look for today? What kind of organizations and activities interest them? Are the individual benefits of volunteering becoming more important? Does IFUW need to change to better meet the needs of the new volunteers?
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IFUW Board and Staff would like to wish all readers a peaceful 2010.
During the next three weeks the blog will take a break. In the meanwhile, we would like to give you the opportunity to suggest future blog topics. Please write to us and share the topics that are “close to your heart” .
We will be back with a new blog post on13 January 2010.
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The coming two weeks we would like to give you the opportunity to suggest future blog topics. We are open to all ideas that are “close to the heart” of our members. We hope to hear from many of you.
On 19th August we will blog on the distribution of men and women in parliament worldwide and the outcomes of the 2009 European Elections.
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Welcome to the new IFUW Blog, which we present to you as part of IFUW’s redesigned website. We have been hard at work on the website and are excited to finally be able to share it with you.
The structure of the new version of the website allows you to quickly access the latest news, updates and official communications. Important programme information is just one click away. We have also tried to make the site more interactive and we encourage members to share their views here on the IFUW Blog or on the IFUW Bulletin Board.
We hope that the website redesign has brought a fresh, more modern look to IFUW’s online presence and that it will make this tool even more useful to you. To help us keep the website up-to-date, we invite you to send news and photos of your activities with us so that we can add them to the website.
For now, take a look around and then come back here and leave a comment telling us what you think. We look forward to hearing your feedback!
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