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12 May 2008 | The Centre for Volunteering and Westpac Foundation
The Centre for Volunteering has been investigating best practice into how corporate Employee Volunteering Programs (EVPs) successfully connect with small-to-medium not-for-profit organisations.
The results from this research have guided the development of a toolkit for NFP organisations wishing to set up or manage their own EVPs.
The research report, Frontier of Opportunity:
Critical Success Factors of Employee
Volunteering Programs for the
Small-to-Medium Not-for-Profit Sector 
, and Employee Volunteer Programs (EVP) Toolkit and Guide for not-for-profits that want to set up and manage their own EVPs was released at Westpac by the Hon Linda Burney, Minister for Fair Trading, Youth and Volunteering with Helen Lynch, Chairman, The Westpac Foundation, on Monday, 12 May 2008 to coincide with the launch of National Volunteer Week 2008.
The EVP Research Report is available to download, to view the EVP Toolkit and Guide log into The Centre for Volunteering's Members-Only website.
The EVP Toolkit and Guide includes:
- EVP Toolkit and Guide
- NFP organisations self assessment EVP critical factors checklists
Section One: Starting off
- Developing your EVP Policy
- Job description template for the management of the EVP
- Planning and brainstorming EVP worksheets
- EVP information pack checklist
Section Two: EVP management and best practice
- Letter of Agreement MOU
- Employee Volunteer Position Description Template
- Employee Volunteer Induction Checklist
- EEO Policy and Guide
- OH&S Policy template
- Confidentiality Policy and Agreement
- Volunteer code of practice
- Risk analysis checklist and Policy
- Police checks and volunteers
- Prohibited employment form
- Planning check list for a one off team event employee volunteer project
- Volunteer rights and volunteer check list
Section Three: Sustaining and expanding the EVP partnership
- Employee Volunteer feedback form
The Report and Toolkit and Guide were partly funded by a grant from the Westpac Foundation.