Posts Tagged ‘australia’
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Volunteer Awareness Week 2009
Australia and New Zealand celebrate Volunteer Awareness Week this week, 14th to 20th June 2009. The have a blog dedicated just for this, and anyone can contribute to the blog with the username and password they’ve provided here - bloggers even stand the chance of winning a prize for their entries.
Another good blog that promotes volunteering and encourages people to contribute their stories is the one run by Seek Volunteer Australia.
It certainly looks like volunteering is alive and kicking Down Under. Over 5 million people volunteer in Australia. This is very heartening news, and it’s good to see the number of initiatives being undertaken to promote volunteering there. If you’re in Australia or New Zealand and reading this, I hope you contribute to one of the two blogs above, or even both. While we’re on the topic, wouldn’t it be good if we could it make it Volunteer Awareness Week wherever we are? Just talk a friend into volunteering with you today, and that’s a good start.
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Volunteering is sexy
Via @Elinesca on Twitter, an interesting idea from Adam Ferrier, a consumer psychologist who also contributes to the SEEK Volunteer blog in Australia. Adam says that the reason people don’t want to volunteer is because of the frumpy and dowdy image associated with it. You know, that it’s uncool, it’s something for old people or people on the dole, or students who have to do it to build up their CV. Adam says that that can all be changed simply by convincing everyone that it is sexy to volunteer, backed up by actual research that people who volunteer are in fact seen as more attractive to the opposite sex. From his post:
So what needs to happen for more people to volunteer?
- Volunteer organisations need to re-brand themselves and strip away their dowdy image - you can make yourselves better.
- People need to be aware of the benefits, and believe they are real.
Go and read the original blog post here.
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Nice piece, yourself.
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