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06 May 2009
Tracking and valuing volunteer time
Article on why and how to include volunteer time in your budgets
Blue Avocado is an American non-profit resource site and they have published an article Tracking Volunteer Time to Boost Your Bottom Line: A Complete Accounting Guide. It gives some examples of why tracking volunteer time can be valuable, in raising funds or protecting the organisation.
Back in the UK, Veterinary charity PDSA has put the value of its volunteer force for the last year at over ten million pounds, giving a ‘return on investment’ in terms of volunteering costs of 22 to 1.
See Charity Finance news item for more information
See also our Impact measurement and evaluation page for more tools on measuring your project outcomes (including 'Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit' from Volunteering England).
Back in the UK, Veterinary charity PDSA has put the value of its volunteer force for the last year at over ten million pounds, giving a ‘return on investment’ in terms of volunteering costs of 22 to 1.
See Charity Finance news item for more information
See also our Impact measurement and evaluation page for more tools on measuring your project outcomes (including 'Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit' from Volunteering England).
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