Volunteer Resources

Whether you’re experienced or new to volunteer management, our Guidelines for Volunteer Management manual will inspire and inform your volunteer program.

Guidelines for Volunteer Management Manual (Full)

Lignes directrices sur la gestion des bénévoles

• Table of Contents and Acknowledgements

• Introduction and Background

• Planning and Preparation

• Recruitment

• Orientation and Training

• Feedback and Evaluation

• Retention and Rewards & Inspiration

• Resources and Templates

Learn how to plan and promote effective volunteer recruitment events with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

• The Power of Collaboration: A Volunteer Recruitment Event Guide

This series of seminars highlights best practices in volunteer management.

For more information, please contact [email protected]. Check out our past seminars:

• Shake It Up: Marketing Your Volunteer Program and Recruitment Strategies video seminar

• Shake It Up: Make Recruitment an Event presentation

• Shake It Up: Get Your Volunteer Program Sponsored presentation

• Shake It Up: Volunteer/Project Management Software and Retention video seminar

Looking for ways to get information about or feedback from your volunteers? Our downloadable and customizable templates will help you along the way:

• Application Form - To recruit volunteers to your organization

• Volunteer Request Form - To send to staff who will be working with volunteers

• Supervisor’s Report - To receive updates from the people who are overseeing your volunteers

• Post-Mortem Survey - To get valuable feedback from your volunteer base

Learn how to work with volunteers, from planning to putting in into practice. Check out our video tutorials, full curriculum and supplementary scenarios to get a sense of the challenges, opportunities and benefits of working with volunteers.

• Planning tutorial video

• Preparation tutorial video

• In Practicum tutorial video

• Supplementary Scenarios
   

• Full Curriculum

• Full Curriculum Presentation - Please contact [email protected] for an editable version of the presentation