Nova Scotia CVI Network – Community Action Pack
& Volunteer Resource Reference Catalogue
During the Nova Scotia Canada Volunteerism Initiative (NSCVI) Network’s
strategic planning process, participants observed that there is a number
of tools, training resources, research documents, and a great deal of
statistical information developed by various volunteer organizations and
agencies in Nova Scotia. The NSCVI Network hired Horizons to catalogue
the existing resources and create user-friendly reference documents to
distribute to volunteers and their organizations province-wide. We surveyed
volunteers and their organizations (in Nova Scotia and nationally) to
create an inventory of resources and tools for volunteers to use in their
work. Using this inventory, we developed two documents: The Volunteer
Community Action Pack and the Volunteer Resource Reference Catalogue.
The purpose of the Volunteer Community Action Pack is to provide a simple tool kit for local advocacy. The Action Pack can assist grassroots volunteers in securing the support of and in engaging local government and community leaders in their work, and is designed to be easily adapted to specific communities, inexpensive to duplicate, and easily accessible through web-based resources. Its companion document, the Volunteer Resource Reference Catalogue, provides an extensive clearinghouse of existing resources and research relative to the volunteer sector in Nova Scotia, in the form of an up-to-date, user-friendly catalogue.
