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International Volunteer Managers Day (IVMDay) recognises and celebrates the profession of volunteer leadership. It is celebrated annually on November 5. This year the theme is “What’s our future normal?”

IVMDay was founded and observed for the first time in 1999. It was developed in order to bring recognition to individual Managers of Volunteers and their roles in the mobilisation and support of the world’s volunteers.

Volunteering doesn’t just happen. In New South Wales, over a thousand palliative care volunteers are managed by paid and unpaid volunteer managers all working hard to ensure services are provided to those in need.

Palliative Care NSW is proud to support International Volunteer Managers Day, recognising the vital role of volunteer leaders for effective volunteering. We encourage you to join us in celebrating all the Managers, Coordinators and Leaders of volunteers across the state. 

We celebrate the profession of volunteer leadership because:

1. Volunteer Managers have the skills and knowledge to help people be part of the solution in meeting community needs. Even in cynical times, they practice the art of the possible.
2. Volunteer Managers change lives — both the lives of volunteers themselves and of those served by well-led volunteers. It is a life-changing profession. Volunteer managers provide the leadership and direction that allows people to build a good and just society and to mend the social fabric. Without professional leadership, people’s time, talents and efforts could be wasted.
3. A well-run volunteer program shows the community, including potential donors, that the organization is not afraid of public scrutiny and involvement and endeavors to make the most efficient use of monetary assets.
4. Well-led volunteers become an advocacy and public relations force for an agency or program — a force no amount of money could buy.

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