Volunteer Management

Tips for Creating a Positive Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Resource Guide
This 24 page resource guide created for National Volunteer Week 2011 contains several useful templates used in volunteer management including photo release forms, a sample recruitment message and an evaluation survey.

Working with Technical Volunteers: A Manual for Nonprofit Organizations
An 89-page, downloadable manual produced by TechSoup.org.

Resources for Volunteer Managers
Best practices regarding implementing a volunteer program, professional development for volunteers, working with new volunteers, corporate volunteer in arts organizations.

Energize
Especially for leaders of volunteers, monthly essays by volunteerism expert Susan J. Ellis on what’s new in the field.

Volunteer Today
The electronic gazette for volunteerism 2005: management and supervision, recruitment and retention, volunteer program evaluation and more.

ServiceLeader.org
Provides information on all aspects of volunteer management, including getting your organization ready to involve volunteers, volunteer screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, legal issues/risk management, volunteer/staff relations, online activism by volunteers, and volunteer management software.

Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
The mission of the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association, together with its state and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes.