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Without a doubt, every recruiter of volunteers hears “I don’t have time” as the most often expressed reason to refuse an invitation to participate in a project. Similarly, those who coordinate volunteer services also express the frustration of “I don’t have the time” to do all sorts of things from expanding a program to reading professional books or Web resources. What can we do about this except wring our hands? Susan Ellis of energizeinc provides some great advice in this article.

This document outlines the need for, and processes surrounding, an orderly means of receiving and managing donated goods.

These are templates for comprehensive post hazard event reporting. The template will provide reports for two main purposes: To provide detailed data for scientific research, calibrating hazard and risk models to improve their robustness and aiding impact scenario development for historic and pre-historic events. To provide a record of hazard impacts and so allow a database of hazard impacts to be developed and integrated for future decision-making. The intention is that somebody wanting to understand the causes and consequences of any given event, reported using this template, will be able to find a comprehensive overview of the event. This will be both in the template, and in associated reports.

Screening is an important risk management tool as well as an essential human resources management function. Find tips from Linda Graff.

What motivates New Zealanders to volunteer and what strategies could be adopted to recruit and retain them was the basis of research conducted by Jan Charbonneau and Mike Brennan from the Department of Marketing and Andrew Hercus from the School of Business, Christchurch College of Education.

This useful book extract contains tips for managing older volunteers, including managing those who are 'aging in place'

This guideline has been developed to provide a framework for organisational debriefing that can be used by CDEM stakeholders.

This report summarises the observations and interpretations of a reconnaissance trip to central Ecuador in November 2004. The purpose of the trip was to investigate infrastructural and agricultural volcanic impacts and volcanic hazard emergency management in Ecuador, focussing on lessons for New Zealand.

Australian Emergency Management Volunteers Summit 2005 report

This fact sheet explains the ‘CDEM Cluster Approach’

‘Focus on Recovery’ provides a framework for recovery planning and management in New Zealand for local government, Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) groups and government departments.

This is the Final Report on the 2004 Review of the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management by the State Services Commission.

The Human Face of Disaster Recovery. This fact sheet outlines how all workers involved in disaster can contribute to human recovery. It summarises changes likely to occur in communities and people during the recovery period, offers suggestions for helping people in crisis.

The Social Dimension of Emergency Recovery. Rob Gordon, Ph.D. This paper presents a model of the social phenomena of emergency recovery and predicts the dynamics of affected communities that enable social recovery to be managed as the context for personal recovery.

Overview of general provisions in the CDEM Act that affect CD volunteers

Overview of the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002 and its relation to civil defence volunteers

Introduction brochure explaining the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

This guideline provides guidance for the formation and conduct of CDEM Groups.

This book from 1990 explains the history of civil defence in New Zealand, from its beginnings through to mid-1990.

The NEMA Science Strategy helps to ensure that strategic leadership decisions for risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery activities as well as emergency management capability and capacity are based on the latest research, science, and best practices.