When most people think of environmental volunteering, they usually imagine massive cleanups and tree plantings. But these are just a few of the many ways…

This is an open educational platform that will help expand understanding of the volunteer movement and its role in positive change in different areas of public life

Volunteer service to people cannot be done by just anyone, outside of any rules. More often than not, volunteer groups with service responsibilities interact with agencies and directly with the beneficiaries.

It is important to understand people’s motivation, their resources (time, emotional, material) and their areas of responsibility.

we can distinguish three main types of volunteer organizations according to the focus of their activities.

The topic of openness and honesty is the most significant for the initial stage of volunteer service, when the future volunteer and the volunteer organization first get to know each other.

One of the most important principles of organizing a volunteer movement (group) is that it is unhelpful and even harmful to fit people to ideas, to “events” and even more so to “reports.