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| August 2006 |
Vol. 10, No. 9 |
Halton Voluntary Sector Human Services Labour Force Study
Preliminary Survey Findings (2) Human Resources: Volunteer Base in Halton
Nonprofit Human Services Sector
Community Development Halton (CDH) has conducted a survey of human services
agencies in the nonprofit sector in conjunction with the Regional Chairman’s
Joint Roundtable on the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector. The data collection
period for the survey has just ended but some of the preliminary findings
relevant to the work and focus of the Regional Chairman’s Roundtable are
reported here. Preliminary Survey Findings (1) (Community Dispatch, Vol. 10, No.
8)) released earlier provided a profile of the employee base of in the survey
respondents in Halton’s nonprofit human services. This offers a first overview
of the volunteer base in the Halton nonprofit human services as reported by
survey respondents.
It was anticipated that agencies responding to the survey may not have as
specific and precise information on their volunteer involvement as they would
for their employees. Only 20 (29%) respondents report that they keep a volunteer
database with detailed demographic information on their volunteers. This is
indicated by the number of agencies that did not provide detailed information on
their volunteer base (12 out of the total 81 agency respondents).
Given the higher probability of recorded information on volunteer numbers and
characteristics, therefore, agencies were asked to provide their best estimates
on numbers of volunteers for many questions, if they did not have the exact
information.
NOTE: Due to the use of graphics in this Community Dispatch, it is only
available as a Acrobat (PDF) file.
PDF: 288k (Community Dispatch)
Produced by Community Development Halton
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Burlington, Ontario L7N 3N4
(905) 632-1975, (905) 878-0955; Fax: (905) 632-0778; E-mail:
office@cdhalton.ca
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