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Volunteer Management Resources & Helpful Links

Volunteer San Diego Resources

Service Inclusion: Visit this section of our website to learn more about the ways you can incorporate volunteers with disabilities into your organization.

E-mail Discussion List: Join the Volunteer San Diego Volunteer Managers e-Network and share your thoughts and resources, get answers to any of your volunteer management questions, and network with local volunteer managers.

Additional Resources

AL!VE: Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement: Began as COVAA, AL!VE (Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement) serves to enhance and sustain the spirit of volunteerism in America by fostering collaboration and networking promoting professional development, and providing advocacy for leaders in community engagement.

Association of Volunteer Resources Management: AVRM incorporated on March 5, 2007 and is taking steps to become an official tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. The primary goals of the new association will be to support and serve the professionals who work in volunteer resources management (VRM) through advocacy, educational programming and the provision of resources that meet the needs of the diverse field of VRM.

Best Practices for Developing a Volunteer Program: Online, ten-section guide from the Maryland Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism, produced by seasoned practitioners from the volunteer management field. Through their years of experience, useful lessons have been learned and are now being shared to help you develop a successful volunteer program. This manual provides an outline of how your colleagues throughout the state of Maryland have developed their volunteer programs.

Best Practice Toolbox: The UPS Foundation created this Best Practices Toolbox to help nonprofit organizations exchange successful practices and tools. UPS wants to share the best strategies and models available, and encourage the replication of them throughout the nonprofit community. Find tools designed to more effectively manage volunteers and produce measurable results for communities in need.

Betty Stallings: Download free training designs and icebreakers.

CASAnet: This site offers a wide range of materials on volunteer recruitment, retention, screening and supervision from Court Appointed Special Advocates. From the menu bar on the left, under Program Management, click on Volunteer Management.

Coyote Communications: Great listing on sources of volunteer management software.

CyberVPM: CyberVPM is the international discussion group for volunteer managers. Debate the topic of the moment, share resources, get answers to your volunteer management questions and find a community of support for those challenges and triumphs unique to volunteer management.

Energize, Inc.: Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism. This website provides a wealth of resources to volunteer managers and anyone interested in learning more about volunteerism. Library area with articles and complete electronic books available for free; annotated links to website containing information on everything from statistics on volunteering to service in specific settings.

Free Management Library: Easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are a large or small for-profit or nonprofit organization.

Idealist’s Volunteer Management Resource Center: Check out this wonderful addition to the Idealist site for a wide-range of resources, tools and networking opportunities. Information available includes: current research, best practices, program tools and other ideas.

Independent Sector: Have you been searching for the estimated dollar value of volunteer time? This provides annual updates and explains just how the value is based.

Nonprofit Risk Management Center: Provides information, technical publications, and online tutorials on liability, risk management, insurance, etc. in the nonprofit sector.

Points of Light Institute: This site provides an Economic Impact of Volunteers Calculator. It estimates the appropriate wage rate for volunteer time based on what the person does, the value of specific tasks according to market conditions as reported by the US Department of Labor. Organizations can use the Calculator to determine the value of the time their volunteers give doing a wide variety of volunteer jobs.

Service Leader: Wide range of information on volunteer management and virtual volunteering from the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Volunteering in America: Presented by the Corporation for National & Community Service. Through this website, you will be able to access volunteering trends, statistics, tools, resources, and information for the nation, U.S. regions, states, and major cities. You will also be able to see how states and cities rank on different factors related to volunteering.

World Volunteer Web: United Nations Volunteers has created this comprehensive site offering continuing news of worldwide volunteer efforts, research reports and links to international volunteer resources.

Publications

Chronicle of Philanthropy: The newspaper of the nonprofit world.

e-Volunteerism: Electronic journal containing numerous articles that cater to volunteer leaders/managers who want to go beyond the mundane in the volunteerism field.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly: Academic journal of research in the volunteer sector. Published by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

Volunteer Today: The Electronic Gazette for Volunteerism. Monthly updates on the topics of management, supervision, recruitment and training. Published by Macduff Bunt Associates.

Charity Channel: Volunteer Management Review e-newsletter.


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