Training Materials | Get Involved! Resource Clearinghouse

Learn more about best practices in volunteer recruitment and engagement, and how to get the results you need.

NOTE: These are examples from public libraries and should be reviewed and modified to ensure fit with local policies and culture.

Title	Keyword	Tags	Year
Skilled Volunteer Interview: Public Relations Strategist Watch this 6 minute interview with Dan, a highly skilled Public Relations volunteer who came aboard to create a statewide PR campaign for California… more	Graphic Design, Marketing and Publicity, Capacity Building, Staff Training		2015
Library Volunteer Program Improvement Model VolunteerMatch worked with the California State Library to develop this self-assessment tool for library volunteer engagement programs. Once you… more	Capacity Building, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources	Assess, evaluation, program evaluation, planning	2015
Engaging the Volunteer of the Future This one-hour webinar by Jennifer Bennett of VolunteerMatch was archived on June 17, 2015: The age of one-size fits all volunteer engagement is… more	Baby Boomers, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Millennials, Staff Training, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources		2015
Benefits of Using Skilled Volunteers in the LIbrary Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (9 minutes)	Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Engaging Staff and Unions		2015
Skills Based Service Engagement Tool Before getting started on a skills-based volunteer project, there are things you can do to ensure that your organization is ready and that skills-… more	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training	Skills Based Volunteers	2015
Today's Volunteer: The Shift from Management to Engagement Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (9.5 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training		2015
Importance of Meaningful Written Volunteer Job Descriptions Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (14 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training		2015
Millenials and Volunteering: Bridging the Generation Gap Every day my LinkedIn feed and various business magazines are filled with articles about Millennials. Generally, the writer advises the reader on how… more	Millennials	Millenials, young volunteers, Recruitment	2015
Volunteer Recruitment Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (20.5 minutes)	Volunteer Recruitment, Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers		2015
Basics of Volunteer Orientation & Training Among the things that make volunteers happy are a good orientation to your organization and basic training. Just getting the volunteer in the door… more	Volunteer Orientation	volunteer training, Volunteer Orientation	2015
Success & Sustainability Factors Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (17.5 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training	Sustainability, retention	2015
VolunteerMatch Recruitment Tool - Volunteer Recommendations Did you know that VolunteerMatch has a cool new feature that recommends volunteer opportunities to the thousands of potential volunteers with… more	Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources	Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, Volunteer Recommendations	2014
Millennials Want To Make a Serious Impact and You Can Help Insights into how to engage the Millennial Generation as volunteers and donors, and how you might be turning them off.	Volunteer Recruitment, Millennials	Millennials, Recruitment	2014
Tutorial - The Get Involved Widget Posting the widget on your library's home page will provide a service to your patrons and increase the number of "hits" on your posted… more	Volunteer Recruitment, On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources	Recruitment	2014
Homework Tutor Training - Huntington Beach Powerpoint used by Huntington Beach Public Library to train their volunteer Homework Help Tutors.	Job Specific Volunteer Training	tutor mentor homework help	2014
Millenials Want to Make a Serious Impact This blog post from Catchafire.org describes the Millenial generation -- the 80 million born between 1980 and 2000 -- and their interest in… more	Millennials	Millenials	2014
Nonprofit Volunteers: Minimizing the Risk Minimizing legal exposure is important because volunteers’ acts are generally imputed to the nonprofit organization. Specific, written volunteer… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training	Risk Management	2013
Developing Training Programs for Volunteers The Who, What, How and Why of designing training programs for volunteers from the Community Toolbox.	Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	Training volunteer training	2013
ESL Conversation Circles - Training Overview This Prezi slide presentation was developed to help train volunteer ESL Conversation group facilitators. (I found it easier to view on FIrefox than… more	Job Specific Volunteer Training	ESL conversation circle, ESL	2013
In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity This New York Times article provides an excellent example of a company providing their skilled volunteers to address the needs of a volunteer… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers	skilled, Skilled Volunteers	2013