or, Secondary Research
- who might already have gathered data which you can utilize?
- your own organization or related organizations
- annual reports
- board minutes
- policies & procedures
- previously-conducted surveys,
questionnaires, case studies, etc
- funding requests
- co-workers
- clients
- volunteers
- the government
- federal
- provincial
- "your" ministry
- related ministries
- municipal
- international
- journals
- your agency's field
- volunteer management field
- list-servs
- http://groups.yahoo.com/phrase/volunteer-management
- www.idealist.org/en/vmrc/supportnetworks/listservsforums.html
- www.energizeinc.com/prof/listserv.html
- associations
- agency affiliates
- volunteer management associations
- KAAAV, PAVR-O, CAVR, etc
- for-profit organizations
- in your field
- in the volunteer management field
- is the data in electronic form or hard-copy?
- electronic data
- free or restricted access?
- digital library cards
- personal access subscription
to database vendor
- one-time paid access
- hard-copy
- agency in-house collections
- public libraries
- Inter-Library Loan
- academic libraries
- volunteer bureaus
- friends and associates elsewhere
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