Challenging Assumptions about Volunteer Involvement - A Seminar for Executives

This seminar is specifically for agency decision-makers (board members, executive directors, department heads) – anyone responsible for strategic planning, policy formulation, and resource allocation.

As such, this is not a session on daily volunteer management. Rather, it will focus on laying the most effective foundation for volunteer success and a chance to identify institutional barriers and bridges to volunteering that are the responsibility of the top management level of an organization, including:

The correlation between fund raising and people raising – between money donors and time donors

The correlation between fund raising and people raising – between money donors and time donors

·Policies, guidelines, and goal-setting to make sure volunteer participation can flourish

·The need for vision and creative volunteer work design

·Trends in volunteering today, from:  evolving vocabulary, mandated service, micro-volunteering, and much more

·Anticipating and dealing with employee/volunteer relationships:  tension to teamwork.

·Myths and truths about volunteer involvement, including risks, limitations, control, and measurable impact           

·Budgeting, staffing and other resource allocation

·Setting and enforcing performance standards

·The roles of the executive, top managers, and the designated leader of volunteer involvement

 

Don't let volunteers be the invisible management subject!  Discover how your actions make the difference, “from the top down.”

 

The work of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is made possible through the generous support of committed individuals and institutions.