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Volunteers are crucial partners in the nonprofit world. The resources below are particularly useful for professionals who manage volunteers and interns but may be of use to people seeking volunteer opportunities as well.

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Add an Internship or Volunteer Opportunity to Idealist, this feature enables organizations—whether or not they have a website—to enter and update information about their mission, services, volunteer opportunities, internships, campaigns, upcoming events, and any resource they have produced. All this is free for any organization.

Idealist Volunteer Center contains the most useful information we have found on the Web for individuals interested in volunteering in their communities.

Recruiting Volunteers For Hard-To-Fill Positions from CharityVillage.com By Nan Hawthorne of CyberVPM.com and NonprofitSpace.

Developing and Managing Volunteer Programs is a list of resources by Carter McNamara emphasizing that volunteers should be managed as part of an overall, systematic program, similar to the systematic approach that should be used to managing employees.

Energize, Inc., founded and managed by Susan Ellis, is a leading supplier of books, training materials, and other resources for leaders of volunteers. Click here to go straight to their online bookstore. (Please note that AWB/Idealist does not have a commercial relationship of any kind with Energize, Inc.)

Idealistas Biblioteca del Voluntariado Estos recursos, disponibles en español, son los más útiles que conocemos en la red. (Please note these resources are in Spanish.)

Internship-in-a-Box is a PDF guidebook by Careerphilly.com that includes information about how an organization can design a customized internship program for high school, undergraduate, or graduate students.

Pillar – Voluntary Sector Network works to increase the visibility, credibility, accountability, professionalism, and capacity of the voluntary sector in Canada.

ServiceLeader.org is a project of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. The guide covers all aspects of volunteer management, including volunteer screening, matching, record-keeping, and evaluation; legal issues and risk management; volunteer/staff relations; online activism by volunteers; and volunteer management software.

Volunteer Match is a nonprofit, online service that helps interested volunteers get involved with community service organizations throughout the United States.

VolunteerResource.org, jointly created by the James J. Hill Reference Library and the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, this is an online library of information about volunteering and volunteer management. Registration is required to access the collection, but it is free to sign up.