Monetary
value of volunteer time
Vita
Activa - Radio Series on Volunteering
Dr Melanie
Oppenheimer is an Associate Professor within the School
of Humanities & Languages at the University of
Western Sydney and historian with a particular interest
in volunteers. Throughout 2007, ABC Radio conducted
a series of discussions with Melanie about trends
in volunteering and these can be downloaded by clicking
on the above link. One of these interviews specifically
looked at the cost of volunteering
Measuring
the value of unpaid household, caring and voluntary
work of older Australians
This is a research
paper produced by the Australian Institute of Family
Studies in 2003 that examines the economic value contributed
through unpaid work, including volunteering, by older
Australians (pdf)
Media
Release on not-for-profits and GDP
This media release
was made by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in
November 2002 and gives a breakdown of figures which
show the amount of money contributed to Australia's
GDP by the not-for-profit sector
Social
Accounting for Nonprofits (article)
An
intersting article out of Canada, investigating a
couple of different social accounting methods (pdf)
The
wider economic value of social capital and volunteering
in SA
Commissioned by the
SA Office for Volunteers and produced by the SA VMAG
(Volunteers Ministerial Advisory Group) in 2003, this
paper by Dr Peter Mayer explores some of the wider
'value' implications of volunteer participation
International
Resources on the Dollar Value of Volunteer Time
Additional links and information
on this topic as well as a commentary by volunteerism
expert, Susan J Ellis, courtesy of our friends at
Energize
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