Thanks for volunteering.

Determining trends in levels of volunteering with any great precision remains a challenge.

Are you volunteering at a VA?

I hereby thank you for volunteering.

(ii) Promote volunteering within educational establishments and youth services develop specific programmes to encourage youth volunteering put in place systems to recognize and accredit volunteering by youth and work with the media to present an attractive image of volunteering. This can have a significant impact on the level of youth participation and constitute a sound investment in a country's human resources.

56 38. Recommendations on support for volunteering

The legislative environment is becoming increasingly supportive of volunteering and the contribution that volunteering makes to individuals and societies is increasingly recognized.

Indeed, there is a need for changes in some existing legislation that has a negative impact on volunteering, including barriers to international volunteering schemes.

I ain't goin' volunteering till I've had my coffee.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has developed an internal volunteering policy and established a volunteering focal point within its headquarters.

(i) Ensure that consideration of the issues regarding volunteering is based on a sound appreciation and analysis of the parameters, profile and trends of volunteering in the particular country context. Studies on volunteering can be undertaken by independent public policy research and or academic institutions. Governments can also initiate research themselves, in partnership with other stakeholders

(e) Ensuring citizens' access to information on opportunities for volunteering

Stereotyping of volunteering, however, is still a feature of the media in many countries with some confusion with regard to definitions and motivations.

But also I intend to stick with the volunteering, which actually leads me to the biggest epiphany of them all.

The number of recruits volunteering to serve their country continues to increase.

The preparation and dissemination in 2001 by the United Nations Volunteers of a toolkit on measuring volunteering, now translated into a number of languages, has assisted several developing countries to move ahead with both national and local studies on the scale and profile of volunteering.

Some Governments have sought to incorporate volunteering by young people into social policy.

Taking into account the valuable contribution of volunteering to both economic and social development,

Recommendations on ways in which Governments and the United Nations system could support volunteering

Investment in physical infrastructure is one very concrete expression of official support for volunteering.

1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary General on support for volunteering A 56 288.

Laws were enacted on volunteering by youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Czech Republic.

Governments, the media and the private sector are increasingly vocal in their support for volunteering.

In many instances, the introduction of supportive legislative and fiscal frameworks may play a critical role, either through the creation of specific volunteering legislation or through ensuring that other legislation and public policy is supportive of volunteering.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV AIDS has produced and disseminated a publication on volunteering and greater involvement of people living with HIV AIDS.

However, volunteering abroad by nationals does not generally form part of official development aid policy frameworks.

There is growing evidence of steady improvements in access to information about opportunities to volunteer, while online volunteering and employee volunteering in the private sector are beginning to demonstrate their potential for attracting far larger numbers of people into volunteer activities.

Some United Nations organizations have prepared and disseminated publications on volunteering within their specialized areas of competence.

7. It is important to ensure that opportunities for volunteering in all sectors are open both to women and men, given their different levels of participation in different areas, and recognizing the potential positive effect of volunteering on the empowerment of women.

Bearing in mind that volunteering is one of the important ways in which people participate in societal development,

(d) Long term planning for the enhancement of social capital by including all segments of society in volunteering

10. Celebrate older persons and ageing on other days, for example on international days for health, women, volunteering.

The US did, however, have the highest ranking for helping a stranger. That, together with a high ranking for volunteering time, led it to tie with Myanmar as the most generous nation in the world.

(c) Enabling fiscal, legislative and other frameworks, including for community based organizations and not for profit organizations engaged in volunteering

Discussion groups on gender issues equality, HIV AIDS, effects of globalisation speaker from FAO Volunteering Challenges to the Rural Community.

In other cases, the United Nations itself has been instrumental in keeping volunteering at the forefront of the development agenda.

32. He thanked all the lead speakers for volunteering to make presentations on such complex subjects at such short notice.

Now, word on the street was that it was actually my volunteering that got me to the front of the line.

National legislation on volunteering was identified during the International Year of Volunteers as an important determinant of a flourishing volunteer movement.

(ii) Establish the economic value of volunteering to help to highlight one important aspect of its overall contribution to society and thereby assist in the development of informed policies which take into account the different levels of participation of women and men, youth and older people in different fields of volunteering.

8. Decides that two plenary meetings of the fifty sixth session of the General Assembly shall be devoted to volunteering, to coincide with the close of the International Year of Volunteers on 5 December 2001, and in this regard requests the Secretary General to prepare a report on ways in which Governments and the United Nations system could support volunteering for discussion on that occasion

In Eastern Europe and Latin America, recognition of the potential of volunteering as an integral part of the democratization process is growing.

From a national perspective, promoting volunteering among youth is a means of creating a sustainable volunteer culture and combating negative images of young people.

The idea there is, if I'm confused about a topic, somehow right in the user interface I'd find people who are volunteering, maybe see their reputation, and I could schedule and connect up with those people?

The European Volunteer Centre met in Romania in 2005, focusing on the theme Volunteering for all ages summit of generations , with the participation of 10 countries discussing approaches to addressing volunteer needs of different age groups.