The Presentation Notes from the Conference can be downloaded here.




Volunteering Unleashed - New times bring new approaches is the title of biennial New Zealand National Volunteering Conference. The conference, organised by Volunteering New Zealand, took place on 28 - 29 October 2009 in Wellington Town Hall.

The event reflected the even greater contribution volunteering can contribute to New Zealand if properly resourced and supported. The imperative that this happen is even greater in this challenging time of economic downturn.

This conference looked at volunteering today and openly discussed new directions for the future. It also explored the advancement of the volunteer management profession. Through a combination of plenary sessions, short presentations, workshops, posters and networking, participants explored new ways to inspire people to volunteer and the tools for successful programme development.
The two main themes for the programme were:

• Volunteering Tomorrow: New Opportunities - new ways for volunteering

• Inspiring Leaders: Advancement of the Profession of Volunteer Management
  

Volunteering Tomorrow - an opportunity to reflect on the diversity of volunteering and volunteers and the new ways in which they are being asked to volunteer. Over the two days this  included keynote presentations, short papers and workshops on:

• Cultural diversity

• Generational diversity

• Episodic and major events volunteering

• Volunteering in community development

• New and interesting ways of doing volunteering

• Changes in response to economic conditions
  

Inspiring Leaders, advancement of the Profession stream was an opportunity to hear about and discuss what this means, why it matters and what different models might be used. Conference participants were asked to consider which path New Zealand should follow and how this could proceed.

For the list of the confirmed keynote speakers please click here.

You can also download the programme from the link here.

The Conference Brochure and Presentation Notes are available free for download no matter if you have participated in the Conference or not.

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Volunteering New Zealand gratefully acknowledges support from

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