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• Legal, Accountability, Risk Management, and Legislative Issues

Legal, Accountability, Risk Management, and Legislative Issues

• American Law Sources Online (ALSO)
• Volunteer Legal Handbook
  A detailed handbook produced for the Volunteer Action Center at the United Way of the Tanana Valley in Fairbanks, Alaska.
• Volunteering is Inherently Risky
  from Susan Ellis's "On Volunteers" column in The Nonprofit Times
• Barriers to Preventing Abuse
  By John Patterson with Charles Tremper and Pam Rypkema from Child Abuse Prevention Primer for Your Organization
• Is Association Liable for Child’s Injury at Party?
  From Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues.
• Legal Issues in School Volunteer Programs
  Ingrid Johansen, School Law Bulletin, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina (US). While it concentrates on school situations in North Carolina, this is, in Steve McCurley's words, "by far the best thing ever written about volunteer liability, both in terms of explaining potential problems and of suggesting what a program manager should do." Written as a series of four articles that you can download or read.