The Volunteer Management Handbook: Leadership Strategies for Success
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0470604530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers.Now covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers, policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting, interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers, and much moreUp-to-date, practical guidance for the major areas of volunteer leadership and managementExplores volunteers and the law: liabilities, immunities, and responsibilitiesDesigned to help nonprofit organizations survive and thrive, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is an indispensable reference that is unsurpassed in both the breadth and depth of its coverage.. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting—and keeping—an active and effective volunteer programDrawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you
Contributions are featured from visionary nonprofit professionals, outlining the present and future of more successful volunteer resource management, to explain how to: Manage more effectively within dynamic, fluid organizational and program environments, including managing performance in both a strategic and tactical context to achieve impressive results.Use advanced information management technology and networking to change "technology walls" to "program bridges" at every stage of the VRM process—from recruiting, marketing, and orientation, to coordination, scheduling,evaluation, and recognition.Understand—and change—organizational culture to establish a growth-filled environment for volunteers and staff.Reassess your organization's volunteer resource management model and planning to develop VRM policies that help protect your organization from risk, yet promo
TRACY D. . He is an NPO management consultant, a Leadership Faculty Member for HandsOn University, and a graduate student at Capella University completing requirements for a doctoral degree in human services management. CONNORS has published eight nonprofit management handbooks—an unsurpassed publication record in the field of not-for-pro
I felt like more variety of authors could've been selected Lovelee L This textbook was painfully dry and repetitive. I felt like more variety of authors could've been selected. My professor reverted back to the older edition as it was more useful than this one.. an A-Z Resource Lynn Very thorough and empirical view of volunteer management that gives you many different perspectives and models to help you organized, lead and motivate volunteers. This book can get a little dry and is thick, but gives very valuable information.. An Awesome Add for your Volunteer Management Library Tracy Connors has done a great job of updating a terrific resource for anyone working with volunteers. There is a neat addition of online resources connected to the book so the resource actually covers much more than you would expect with the online resources. There is a great variety of authors contributing to the book with a number of differ