Resources For Volunteer Managers:
Legal, Accountability, Risk Management & Legislative Issues
American Law Sources Online (ALSO)
http://www.lawsource.com/also/
Volunteer Legal Handbook (Risk Management)
http://www.ptialaska.net/~jdewitt/vlh/Risk/VLHRiskMgt.html
A detailed handbook produced for the Volunteer Action Center at the United Way of the Tanana Valley in Fairbanks, Alaska.
In The Name Of Charity: How Nonprofits Lobby Big Government
(Back Issues/Winter 1998/Features)
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/
By the Philanthropy Roundtable.
Nonprofits In Business to Pay Own Way...Review of Bottom Line
http://www.guidestar.org/news/index.html
Part of Guidestar's online resources and news updates.
Client Literacy Should Be A Goal for Nonprofits Serving the Needy
http://www.nishna.net/501c3/dec5.htm
By Scott Woodbury, M.S.T., a Tax Manager for Glenn Ingram & Company Ltd., a Chicago-headquartered accounting firm serving nonprofits
Volunteering is Inherently Risky
http://www.energizeinc.com/art/nprisk.html
from Susan Ellis's "On Volunteers" column in The NonProfit Times.
Barriers to Preventing Abuse
http://www.energizeinc.com/art/achila.html
from the book Child Abuse Prevention Primer for Your Organization
Step 2: Screening
http://www.energizeinc.com/art/anos.html
from the book No Surprises: Controlling Risks in Volunteer Programs
Reference Checks
energizeinc.com/art/astaf.html
from the book Staff Screening Tool Kit
Federal Law Protects Nonprofit Volunteers
nonprofitissues.com/ready/rr97dec1.html
from Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues
Is Association Liable for Child’s Injury at Party?
energizeinc.com/art/iis.html
from Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues.
Legal Issues in School Volunteer Programs
http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/pubs/electronicversions/slb/archive.htm
Ingrid Johansen, School Law Bulletin, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina (US). While it concentrates on school situations in North Carolina, this is, in Steve McCurley's words, "by far the best thing ever written about volunteer liability, both in terms of explaining potential problems and of suggesting what a program manager should do." Written as a series of four articles that you can download or read.
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