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Volunteer Management Resource Center
Volunteer management professionals do challenging and rewarding work. Here's our roundup of research, best practices, tools, and ideas in the field.
- Organizational Readiness
- Risk Management
- Developing Your Volunteer Program
- Finding Volunteers
- Screening, Selecting, and Matching Volunteers
- Training Volunteers
- Support, Supervision, and Retention
- Financial Management
- Motivation and Recognition
Professional Development for Volunteer Management Professionals
Volunteer Managers + Human Resource Managers
- Accessibility, Diversity, and Barriers to Volunteering
- Board Service and Skilled Volunteerism
- Corporate/Employee Volunteering
- Disaster Response Volunteering
- Engaging Generations of Volunteers
- Faith-Based Volunteering
- Family Volunteering
- Government Volunteering
- Group and Special Event Volunteering
- International Volunteerism
- Legal Issues and Ethics
- Models of Volunteering: Entrepreneurial, Episodic, Informal, Mandated, and Residential
- Online/Virtual Volunteering
- Promoting Volunteerism
- Research on Volunteerism
- Student Engagement: Service-Learning and College/University Volunteers
- Virtual Conversations: Volunteer Management Listservs and Discussion Boards
- By Location: Volunteer Management Organizations and Associations
Acknowledgments
Susan Ellis and Energize, Inc. are invaluable partners of the VMRC, sharing and providing access to comprehensive best practices and resources throughout the site.
The following people also provided guidance and direction as we created the VMRC:
- Jennifer Anastasoff, BuildingBlocks International, San Francisco, California
- June Bass, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Oregon
- LaVerne Campbell, Volunteers of America, Alexandria, Virginia
- Kelley Carmichael, PsyD, Off the Beaten Path, Portland, Oregon
- Kari Dunn, The Case Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Nancy Gaston, CVA, Gifts Differing, Vancouver, Washington
- Karen Heller Key, National Human Services Assembly, Washington, D.C.
- Justin Ho, Volunteer BC, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Sherry Iversen, University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
- Lesa Ketterlinus, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri
- Debbie Krakauer, Volunteer San Diego, San Diego, California
- Sarah Jane Rehnborg, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin/Volunteer Champions Initiatives, Austin, Texas
- Cami Thompson, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas
- Scotti Weintraub, Oregon Volunteers, Portland, Oregon