Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 6 Evaluation on March 10th from 9 am-noon, you’ll learn strategies for figuring out what is and isn’t working, including how to build a foundation for evaluating volunteer engagement and how to use surveys and feedback to improve outcomes for volunteers, staff, and the organization as a whole.

Objectives

Examine strategies for figuring out what is and isn’t working:

• Build a foundation for evaluating volunteer engagement.
• Recognize the difference between Program Evaluation and Stakeholder Evaluation.
• Explore Impact Statements, Mutual Feedback and Stakeholder Satisfaction Surveys to improve outcomes for volunteers, staff and the organization as a whole.

Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 5, Supervision & Support, on February 10th from 9 a.m. to noon, you’ll learn tools and strategies to ensure volunteers feel supported, effective, and appreciated. These include strategies for volunteer supervision and support, causes of and options for addressing volunteer performance problems, and effective ways to reward and recognize volunteers​.

Objective

Provide tools and strategies to ensure volunteers feel supported, effective and appreciated:

• Articulate the benefits of supporting and supervising volunteers.
• Design and implement strategies for volunteer supervision and support.
• Explore causes of and options for addressing volunteer performance problems.
• Identify effective ways to reward and recognize volunteers​.

Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 4, Intake & Onboarding, on January 13th from 9 a.m. to noon, you’ll learn how to create systems to screen, place, orient, and train volunteers. This includes techniques for interviewing and matching volunteers with positions, designing effective volunteer orientation, and assessing and meeting volunteer training needs.

Objectives

Create systems to screen, place, orient and train volunteers:

• Define techniques for screening, interviewing and matching volunteers with positions.
• Describe the difference between and importance of orienting and training volunteers and staff.
• Design effective volunteer orientation.
• Assess training needs and design training to equip volunteers and staff.

Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 3, Opportunities & Outreach, on November 11th from 9 a.m. to noon, you’ll acquire the tools to attract the volunteers you need by examining trends in volunteerism and how they might inform opportunities and outreach, developing position descriptions with a Volunteer Experience Lens, exploring targeted recruitment concepts, and developing an Outreach Strategy.

Objective

Acquire tools to get the volunteers you need in the door:

• Examine trends in volunteerism and how they might inform opportunities and outreach.
• Develop position descriptions with a Volunteer Experience Lens.
• Explore targeted recruitment concepts and consider potential audiences.
• Develop an Outreach Strategy.

Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 2, Planning for Volunteer Engagement, on October 14th from 9 a.m. to noon, you’ll start planning how and where volunteers fit in your organization. You'll learn about each step of volunteer engagement, how to conduct a Volunteer Engagement Assessment, risks to consider when deciding how to engage volunteers, and the resources and support needed to engage volunteers effectively.

Objectives

Start planning for how and where volunteers fit in our organizations:

• Describe the many steps of volunteer engagement.
• Learn how to conduct a Volunteer Engagement Assessment.
• Consider risk when deciding how to engage volunteers.
• Identify resources and support needed to effectively engage volunteers.

Volunteers play critical roles in nonprofit organizations. Are you looking to boost your nonprofit’s capacity with volunteers? This 6-part Volunteer Engagement and Management training includes sessions on establishing the framework, planning, recruiting, onboarding, supporting, and evaluating. Register for any and all that interest you.

In Module 1, Establishing the Framework, on September 16th from 9 a.m. to noon, you’ll learn about volunteerism, the key elements of volunteer engagement, how to apply a volunteer-centered framework, and how to work with challenges and motivators for volunteer engagement.

Participants are encouraged to bring lunch.

Objectives

• Describe volunteerism and its role in civic life today.
• Apply a volunteer-centered framework to volunteer engagement.
• Identify elements of volunteer engagement.
• Explore barriers to and motivators for volunteer engagement.

Lifecycle of a Nonprofit

Like humans, organizations go through different lifecycles, and specific competencies and performance measures distinguish each stage. During this interactive workshop, you will learn about Nonprofit Lifecycles, the advantages of using this framework, and why the alignment of programs, management, governance, resources, and systems is so important. You will have the opportunity to assess your organization using the Lifecycles “selfie” and begin to develop strategies for alignment that will strengthen your organization.