Resources For Volunteer Managers:
Getting Your Organization Ready
to Involve Volunteers / the Community

• Before You Begin or...Pack Your Parachute Before You Jump
  Managers of volunteer initiatives at several Texas state agencies and nonprofit organizations share their strategies:

  Understand your organization's history, culture and cause
  http://www.txserve.org/mgmt/volrec/orghist.html

  Prepare your organization for volunteer involvement
  http://www.txserve.org/mgmt/volrec/prep.html

  Sell the program inside your organization or agency
  http://www.txserve.org/mgmt/volrec/sell.html

   
  
• Recognizing Your Role (as volunteer manager)
  http://www.energizeinc.com/art/aheli.html
  From The (Help) I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management by Katherine Noyes Campbell and Susan Ellis.

   
  

• It Starts with You...The Volunteer Administrator
  http://www.energizeinc.com/art/jits.html
  from the Journal of Volunteer Administration.

   
  

• Setting Up and Managing A Virtual Volunteering Program
  Resources from the Virtual Volunteering Project:

  First step: are you ready for this?
  http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/ready.html

  Next Step: Laying the Groundwork
  (getting staff buy-in and participation, developing an implementation plan, training staff and volunteers, etc.)
  http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/grndwork.html

   
  

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