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Volunteers in Canada
CBC News Online | February 4, 2002
On Monday, Feb. 4, 2002, CBC featured a Big Picture look at volunteering and charity in Canada. Programming included a full day of coverage on Newsworld and CBC Television and indepth coverage from CBC News Online. Some of the video from the day is available here, and more material will be added to this site, including video of other items from CBC TV.
Newsworld will air a program with highlights from the Big Picture on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET.
Here's what on cbc.ca:
- A backgrounder on volunteers looks at how many and how much Canadians volunteer, and how we compare with other countries.
- A backgrounder on donating to charity look at how much money Canadians give and to wwhat kind of charities.
- A feature story on a volunteer panel of experts who look at government social programs and lobby the bureaucracy and the politicians to make the system fair for low-income Canadians.
- Video: Most of the stories from the day are available here.
- A messageboard to connect Canadians wanting to discuss volunteering.
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Surveys and reports
National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, 2000
Patterns of volunteering over the life cycle by L. Kevin Selbee and Paul B. Reed, Canadian Social Trends, Summer 2001
Panel on Accountability and Governance in the Voluntary Sector, final report, February 1999
UK Institute for Volunteering Research, 1997 survey
Independent Sector, Giving and Volunteering in the United States 2001
Sites
Charity Village
"Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector"
Volunteer Canada
Canadian Centre for Philanthropy
International Year of Volunteers (2001)
Voluntary Sector Initiative:
A joint initiative to strengthen the capacity of the voluntary sector in Canada
UK Institute for Volunteering Research
Charities Aid Foundation, UK
U.S. Independent Sector
Energize, Inc.: especially for leaders of volunteers
Offers extensive links and a library of online articles.
Bloorview Macmillan Centre, Toronto
Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, Halifax
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