Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
An Interdisciplinary community dedicated to fostering through research and education, the creation, application and dissemination of knowledge on nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, civil society and voluntary action.
Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
A volunteering and social action charity that provides research, publications and evaluations on volunteering in the United Kingdom.
Corporation for National and Community Service
This site is home to a comprehensive look at volunteering and civic life in the 50 states and 51 cities across the country. Data includes volunteer rates and rankings, civic engagement trends, and analysis.
Energize, Inc.
Reports and studies on volunteering, including academic research and government, large nonprofits, or corporation studies.
Idealist
Idealist offers a compendium of resource links to leading research on volunteerism.
UN Volunteer
UN Volunteer’s online compendium of Volunteerism research
International Society for Third Sector
The society promotes research and education in the fields of civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector.
UN Volunteers
The report explores the universality, scope and reach of volunteerism along with new trends in the twenty-first century. It also examines important contributions in diverse fields such as sustainable livelihoods, social inclusion, social cohesion and disaster risk reduction.
Volunteering Australia
Research and advocacy resources.
The Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) - Evidence Bank
This is a searchable database of over 200 research, reports, bulletins, publications and journal articles on Volunteering, primarily in th United Kingdom.
Search Institute
The Search Institute links research and practice to address critical issues in education and youth development with a focus on building on young people’s strengths.
Johns Hopkins University - Center for Civil Society Studies
The Center conducts research and educational programs that seek to improve current understanding, analyze emerging trends, and promote promising innovations in the ways that government, civil society, and business can collaborate to address social and environmental challenges.
Washington University’s Center for Social Development’s (CSD)
CSD conducts research in civic engagement and service. CSD focuses on four broad areas of research: 1. International service; 2. national service; 3. continuous service; and 4. Civic engagement and service.
The Corporation for National and Community Service’s Knowledge Network These networks provide a space to share what's working at the insection of service and economic opportunity, education, environment, healthy futures, and more.
International Labor Office (ILO) - Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work
The manual guides countries in generating systematic and comparable data on volunteer work that is required to carry out the 2001 United Nations General Assembly mandate for governments to “establish the economic value of volunteering.” Also see the Global Volunteer Measurement Project.
UN Volunteers -Assessing the Value of Volunteering to Development
The Independent Sector and United Nation’s Volunteers - Measuring Volunteering: A Practical Toolkit
Researchers and practitioners from ten countries produced this practical toolkit on measuring volunteering.
Harvard School of Public Health-MetLife Foundation - Reinventing Aging: Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement
This research is an initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement
Energize, Inc.’ - Working with Older Volunteers
UN’s World Volunteer Web - Young People and Volunteering
Research findings, strategies and tips.