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Resources to Build Strong Volunteer Teams

Expert guidance on everything you need to lead volunteers, including resources for recruiting, retaining, and recognizing volunteers who support your mission.

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WEBINARS

Free webinars for leaders of volunteers

Sign up for an upcoming webinar hosted by Jennifer Bennett, CVA to find expert tips and guidance on managing a volunteer program.

If you can’t make the live event, check back here to view the webinar recordings, slides, and resources.

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Upcoming Webinars

Volunteer Recruitment Workshop Series

This workshop series will walk you through the steps for designing compelling, targeted recruitment messaging for your volunteer opportunities. The Kick Off will outline some of the current trends and challenges in recruiting volunteers and the following workshops will do a deep dive into Position Descriptions, Volunteer Personas, building targeted recruitment messages, using Idealist to recruit, and designing a follow-up communication plan. If you aren't able to attend live, please register to receive the recording and resources from each workshop.

Volunteer Recruitment: Kick Off

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Volunteer Recruitment: Volunteer Position Descriptions

Thursday, September 17th | 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Volunteer Recruitment: Volunteer Personas

Thursday, September 24th | 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Volunteer Recruitment: Recruitment Messaging

Thursday, October 1st | 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Volunteer Recruitment: Recruiting on Idealist

Thursday, October 8th | 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Volunteer Recruitment: Follow-Up Communications

Thursday, October 15th | 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit Series

Join us for webinars specifically designed to help you put the Is Everyone Welcome Tools into practice in your organization.

From Intention to Action: Using "Inspire, Hire, Train, Retain" to Support Disability Inclusion in Volunteer Engagement

Thursday, October 22nd | 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern

Learn more about and register for the ongoing Volunteering Redefined webinar series here!

Guest Speaker Series

Join us for new tools and ideas, interesting conversations, and resources from around the volunteer engagement field.

Understanding Your Volunteer Partners: Using the Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) to Strengthen Engagement and Retention

What can volunteers tell you about the health of your volunteer program—and are you asking the right questions? The Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) is a free research-based tool designed to help nonprofit leaders better understand the experiences of their volunteer partners. Developed through a partnership between the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Humane Society of the United States, the VPA draws on published research and nearly two decades of experience assessing volunteer programs across the nonprofit sector. Learn more and register.

Past Webinars

How can we ensure that when a volunteer joins our organization they feel respected, valued, and like they belong? In this workshop series we'll explore the role that your organization's environment plays in creating a strong connection with a volunteer. How staff and decision-makers support and view volunteers can make a big difference - in either a positive or negative way. We'll discuss what we can do to ensure that you're creating an organization culture that elevates and celebrates volunteers. We'll also cover how to involve volunteers in decision-making in your organization to be sure that even small changes are expected and respected. And, we'll discuss when - and how - to make the decision to let a volunteer go. Each of these workshops will build on the content in the previous sessions, if you aren't able to attend live please plan on reviewing the previous recordings before attending a session.

Managing and Supporting Volunteers Kick Off

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Creating a Culture of Volunteer Engagement

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Managing Changes and Volunteer Transitions

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When Things Don't Go as Planned

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Ethics and Decision Making When Leading Volunteers

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Volunteering Redefined

Engaging older adult volunteers in student success for 2026

Be a part of a new Learning Community designed specifically for leaders of volunteers engaging older adults in student success. 

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Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit

Build a more inclusive volunteer program

The Is Everyone Welcome? Toolkit contains best practices for promoting equity in volunteer administration.

The toolkit is an outcome of the Assessing Diversity and Equity in Volunteer Inclusion (ADEVI) project, a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU), and the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA), with support from AmeriCorps.

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