Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Volunteer Work

In the 1970s, more American college students could be found hitchhiking through Europe than riding mules to remote Mexican villages. Yet Kaye Kvam, at 21, chose to spend six months in the wild impoverished village of Chilar as a medical volunteer with Project Piaxtla.  With only the barest of training, forsaking the relative ease of her life in California, she cared fro all ages, and all types, while learning much about medicine, herself, and her Mexican neighbors.  In September 1974, she put her college career on hold and stepped into the unfamiliar.  

Through her...

In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered little attention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federal government was simultaneously offloading its responsibility for essential services to the sector and cutting back their funding. Two decades later, the voluntary sector is a key public policy player in federal, provincial, and municipal politics. Rachel Laforest tells the story of how and why the federal government's relationship with voluntary organizations changed at the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and insights from governance theory, social...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides strategies for nonprofit organizations to recruit, train, motivate, and reward young volunteers. It addresses:

• Beginning a youth volunteer program
• Tips and techniques to recruit young volunteers
• Connecting with and motivating young people in volunteer efforts
• Benefits and rewards for young volunteers
• Reaching and engaging college-age volunteers

Important topics covered include:

• Volunteer selection guidelines
• Teen incentive...

Nonprofit organizations often struggle with selecting and screening volunteers and placing them in the best possible positions. This practical resource, originally published by Stevenson, Inc., provides actionable tips and techniques to improve volunteer selection, screening, and placement.

The articles in this resource cover useful topics such as: recruitment procedures aimed at filling key volunteer positions, techniques for screening volunteers in advance, interviewing procedures, tips for checking references, how to conduct thorough background checks, how to decline a volunteer...

Although volunteer recruitment can be difficult for nonprofit organizations, volunteer retention is often even more difficult. Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides nonprofit organizations and professionals with strategies for nurturing long-term relationships with volunteers and examples of what various organizations have done to retain new volunteers.

Important topics covered include:

• Welcome kits
• Volunteer assignments
• Goal setting
• Volunteer motivation
• Risk management measures
• Volunteer...