The All-Volunteer Section: Bridging the Divide

An Invitation to Our Readers to Help Us Design, Create and Staff a Feature that Will Integrate All-Volunteer Organization Views

If everything had gone according to plan, what you would have found on this page would have been a third Keyboard Roundtable discussing a topic of special concern to the leaders of all-volunteer organizations. But a funny thing happened on the way to the computer! So we thought we'd share the story with you and ask for your input.

In brief, we ran into all sorts of obstacles in our attempt to find a Convening Editor for this topic and we then began to question whether or not this topic should even be handled as a Keyboard Roundtable. What we are certain about is that it's vital for e-Volunteerism to tackle the existing communication void between agency-based volunteer program practitioners and leaders/officers of all-volunteer organizations. Here's our reasoning: