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Build Staff Buy-In for Volunteer Engagement
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Often one of the biggest challenges to a new model of volunteer engagement is the resistance of paid staff. The attitudes and fears of our co-workers prevent us from expanding the work that volunteers do. But, if you've never worked with volunteers before, it can be scary. This one hour webinar presented by Jennifer Bennett from VolunteerMatch discusses strategies for working with paid staff to engage volunteers. It also covers what you can do to alleviate some of those fears, strategies for working within a Union environment, and how you can train and support your coworkers as they become responsible for managing volunteers. |
Staff Guides for Working with Volunteers, Engaging Staff and Unions, Staff Training
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Staff Resistance, Unions
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Training Materials |
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Volunteer Engagement (Online Course)
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This course was created for the Transforming Life After 50 Fellowship, and is archived and available for you to use free of charge. Baby boomers and the generations that follow are seeking new ways to use their skills and experience to make a difference in their communities. Your library is uniquely positioned to benefit from these volunteers. This course provides tools, techniques, and models for volunteer engagement so that you will be able to: Understand the potential for engaging high impact, skilled volunteers to assist public libraries. Engage this talent to extend the library’s capacity in the community and to benefit from these new library advocates and supporters. Understand the motivations behind why people volunteer. Describe the elements of a successful volunteer engagement program. Create diverse and meaningful skilled volunteer positions that will attract a broad range of community volunteers, especially baby boomers. Address staff resistance to engaging volunteers. Understand current trends and issues in volunteer engagement, such as online recruitment and legal issues. |
Volunteer Recruitment, Baby Boomers, Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Engaging Staff and Unions
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Volunteer Recruitment, Baby Boomers, Unions
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Management Tool |
