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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

Special Webinars Happening this Fall

Ethics and Decision Making When Leading Volunteers

Tuesday December 9th | 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time/2:00 p.m. Eastern Time

We've all been there - you're in a difficult situation with a volunteer and you don't know what to do. Sometimes it's just a situation where you can't make everyone happy, but sometimes you're in an ethical dilemma - torn between two or more of the core values for leading and managing volunteers. How do you know if you're in an ethical dilemma, and what should you do to ensure that you make the right decision?

Join Faiza Venzant, CVA, Executive Director for the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration and Jennifer Bennett, CVA to learn about those core values and how to incorporate ethical decision making into your work. This highly interactive session will help you think through a real ethical dilemma faced by a leader of volunteers, and practice the steps needed to implement this practice in your own work.

Co-Hosted with the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration

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

Past Webinars

Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit: Encouraging Volunteer Reflection

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Take a deeper dive into the Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit and explore a tool specifically designed to help volunteers reflect on their work and experience with your organization. These types of exercise can help support volunteers as they navigate their biases and help them develop greater self-awareness, empathy, and understanding of their impact.

Co-Hosted with the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration

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Volunteering Redefined

Engaging older adult volunteers in student success for 2025

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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