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Volunteers Count (2009-2011)

According to Statistics ޾ֲ research, volunteers are a major human resource, and their yearly contribution is equivalent to over one million full-time jobs in ޾ֲ (Hall et al., 2005).

Yet, volunteers are often an invisible human resource that is taken for granted and not included in the formal accounting reports of non-profit organizations.

Volunteers Count - Social Accounting for Volunteer Contributions

Project Objective

The objective of this SSHRC public outreach grant, “Building Capacity for VolunteersCount — an Innovative Approach to Account for Volunteer Contributions” (2009-2011) was to help make the invisible visible through the creation of materials to educate non-profits in valuing, keeping records of, and reporting the contributions of volunteers.

These materials included:

  • A National train-the-trainer program for volunteer centres across ޾ֲ.
  • And, Volunteers Count, an online open-source software system that includes a component on social accounting, which broadens the items considered in accounting to include volunteer contributions.

VolunteersCount was developed in part through research funded by a SSHRC INE Research Grant (Creating a Framework for Valuing Volunteer Labour).

Additional Notes

This project was supported by the .