Resources For Volunteer Managers:
Managing Volunteers: Supervision, Progress Reports, etc.
Seven Steps To Achieve Effective Volunteer Support
http://www.charityvillage.com/charityvillage/research/rvol16.html
By Canadian-based Charity Village.
Volunteer Supervision and Evaluation
http://www.casanet.org/program-management/volunteer-manage/
By volunteer management expert and author Steve McCurley, part of a variety of volunteer management-related resources hosted by the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association.
Setting Up and Managing A Virtual Volunteering Program
http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/vvbegin.html
A detailed, step-by-step process of introducing virtual volunteering (online volunteering) to an organization, and managing such a program. Includes:
- Suggestions to evaluate staff members and volunteer program to see if the necessary systems and knowledge are in place to involve volunteers online successfully.
- Getting staff buy-in and participation, developing an implementation plan, training staff and volunteers, etc.
- Implementing a virtual volunteering pilot project (includes information on identifying online assignments)
- Managing volunteers virtually: adjustments in styles and approaches to volunteer management that must be made to ensure success.
- Orienting and evaluating volunteers for virtual assignments (includes samples from other organizations)
- Assigning online tasks (matching volunteers to assignments)
- Finding and managing technical assistance volunteers
- Volunteer activism via the Internet
- Sample evaluation questions to use with volunteers and staff
- Involving people with disabilities in virtual volunteering programs
Tips for outreach, accommodations, conversation, volunteer orientation and matching, evaluation and staff training. Information includes:
- Working via the Internet with volunteers who have disabilities
- Examples of Experiences Involving Online Volunteers and Youth With Disabilities
- Making an agency virtually accessible to people with disabilities
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