Chapter 12Microvolunteering for Big Impact
Mike Bright
Founder, Help From Home
The United Nations Volunteers issued a report in late December 2011, describing the state of global volunteerism. In the report, United Nations Volunteers highlighted three of the fastest growing trends in volunteering around the world: corporate volunteer engagement, travel-related volunteering (or “voluntourism”), and the less well-known practice of microvolunteering.1
It's ironic that when the report was released, much of the discussion that I was seeing about microvolunteering revolved around whether it was actually just a passing fad or not. I'm pleased to say to those naysayers that, not only was the news of its early demise greatly exaggerated, its staying ...
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