VOL 140 | Making Volunteers Your Best Advocates and Leaders

Overview

When volunteers become motivated advocates, they can make a significant impact on any nonprofit, helping to advance the mission inside the organization and in the external community. In this course, participants will pick up tools to turn volunteers into champions for your organization and leaders within your volunteer corps.

Key Concepts

• Identifying and developing volunteer leaders and volunteer advocates
• Volunteer retention
• Volunteer recognition
• Volunteer program evaluation

Learning Objectives

• Implement recognition strategies for volunteers.
• Apply best practices for turning volunteers into leaders.
• Assess volunteer satisfaction.
• Evaluate implemented elements of the volunteer-engagement cycle.

Audience

• Volunteer coordinators/managers
• Program staff members who supervise/manage volunteers