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All-Volunteer Group Development
Includes civic groups and other all-volunteer membership associations, plus auxiliaries and friends groups.
Also see Leadership and Boards of Directors
Also see books
and e-Volunteerism articles on this topic
Articles and excerpts on this topic
- Are the All-Volunteer Groups Taking Over?, from the 501(c)(3) Monthly Letter
- Be Ambassadors to the Community from All Hands on Board: The Board of Directors in an All-Volunteer Organization
- A Bill of Rights for Members, by Bryan Leipper
- Boards of All-Volunteer Organizations from Blue Avocado
- Decision Making in Small Groups from Leading Small Groups
- 'Friends will be Friends, right till the end' by Lynn Blackadder
- How to Hit Your Members' Hot Buttons, from the book How to Turn Generation Me into Active Members of Your Association
- Is There Hope for Auxiliaries? by Susan J. Ellis in The NonProfit Times
- Is Your Parent Group a Clique?, article on the PTO Today Web site
- Leaving Agendas Outside Is Part of the Organizational Structure, from the book Better Than Money Can Buy
- Leading Volunteers, by Nancy Beach
- The Need for Specialized Projects, from the book When Everyone's A Volunteer
- The Power of Personal Relationships from Good Guys: The Eight Steps to Limitless Possibility for Fraternity Recruitment
- Officer Installation from Collections and Reflections
- Sage Advice for the New Member, from the book The Group Member's Handbook
- Starting Groups (Lay Persons), from the book The Self-Help SourceBook
- The Treasurer's Report, from the book Self-Help Accounting
- What Volunteers Need: A White Paper, by the Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Task Force of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Free electronic books on this subject
All Hands On Board: the Board of Directors in All-Volunteer Organizations by Jan Masaoka,
Leadership Basics: A Guide to Leading Groups of Volunteers
Developed for conservation volunteer leaders who are responsible for leading groups of other volunteers, by the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (60-pg. PDF).
Resources to Increase and Support Volunteers - A series of nine books by Volunteer Northwest Territories and Volunteer Nunavut in Canada for volunteers and volunteer groups in small and large communities. The initial 7-page PDF contains the table of contents for and links to 9 booklets of 40 pages each, all of which open in the same PDF.
Take Root: Volunteer Management Guidebook
From HandsOn Network and the Corporation for National Community Service, this 56-page PDF provides a simple overview of the tasks of managing a project with volunteers (2010). Especially pertinent for volunteers leading other volunteers.
Web sites with information on this topic
Association Xpertise
Inc. (AXI) Resources
http://www.axi.ca/services/resources.htm
Wide variety of articles
on board and association management from this Canadian consulting
firm.
The Center for
Association Leadership
http://www.centeronline.org/
Site for staff and officers
of trade and professional associations, with many articles, sample
forms, "cool tips," etc. Search under "volunteer"
or "member development."
Dear Association Leader
Archives
http://leippermanagement.com/dal/
Articles from past issues of this weekly bulletin for association
officers.
Mark Levin/Baileadership
archive
http://www.baileadership.com/articles.htm
Professional speaker and
association manager Mark Levin shares his archive of articles about
membership development for associations.
PTO Today
Archives
http://www.ptotoday.com/articles.html
Wide range of articles
on recruitment, fundraising, and making things work, written for
leaders of parent/teacher groups but applicable to any all-volunteer
organization.
Self-Help Sourcebook Online
http://mentalhelp.net/selfhelp/
All
sorts of information for running a self-help group, including links
to existing groups and tips for effective online support.
Volunteer Job Descriptions
\http://www.rims.org/membership/chapterofficertools/Resources/Documents/VOLUNTEERJOBDESCRIPTIONS.doc
Focused on officers of all-volunteer
groups, from the Risk & Insurance
Management Society, http://www.rims.org/
Volunteer Spot
http://www.volunteerspot.com
Free site designed to
enable anyone to quickly mobilize, coordinate , and schedule volunteers in their community, congregation and social network to accomplish projects more easily.
Relevant Hot Topic essays
- Limiting Volunteers through Insurance Requirements - Aug '10
- The Great Divide: Leaders Who Are Paid and Leaders Who Are Volunteers - Oct '02
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