Employee/Volunteer Relations
Other Energize resources on this topic: Books | e-Volunteerism articles
Articles and book excerpts on this subject
- Best Practices in Staff and Volunteer Relations, by Louise Chatterton Luchuk for Charity Village
- Cultivation and Critique, from the book A Roadmap to Managing Volunteer Systems
- Developing Good Staff-Volunteer Relationships by Betsy McFarland for AnimalSheltering.org (2004)
- Effective Relationships Between Staff and Volunteers by Mary Merrill
- How to Generate Conflict Between Volunteers and Staff by Steve McCurley and Rick Lynch (a what not to do list)
- I Got Dumped: The Dark Side of Volunteer/Staff Relationships by Becky Lunders, Contributions Magazine (2010)
- Satisfy Staff First, from the book Building Staff/Volunteer Relations
- Volunteer Rights Inquiry - Interim Report - produced by Volunteering England for the Inquiry (2010).
- A Volunteer's Bill of Rights, samples compiled by John Lipp
- Volunteer-Staff Relations, by Ella Marin for Suite101.com
- Volunteers Are Human Resources…or Are They? by Susan J. Ellis in The NonProfit Times, 2003
Web sites with information on this subject
HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector
http://hrcouncil.ca/hr-toolkit/workplaces-staff-volunteer.cfm
“Workplaces that Work: Staff/Volunteer Relations” section of their online HR Toolkit.
Staff/Volunteer Relations section of the Ivan Scheier Volunteerism Archive
http://academic.regis.edu/volunteer/Ivan/sect14.htm
Classic, timeless information on the subject.
Relevant Hot Topic essays
- "Why?" Is More Powerful than #@#%! - Sep '12
- Is Volunteering the Emperor’s New Clothes? - Jul '12
- Common Sense and Volunteer Involvement- April '12
- What Would the Perfect Volunteer-Involving Organization Look Like?- Jan '12
- Celebreat Collective Accomplishments, Not Volunteered Time- Apr '11
- Differentiating between Volunteering and Working for Pay - Jan '10
- Confidentiality and Other Objections to Volunteers - Apr '09
- The Difference Beteween Needing and Wanting Volunteers - March '09
- Replacing Volunteers with Paid Staff - Sept '08
- The Middle Management Barrier - Oct '06
- Educating Other Professions about Volunteers: Starting at the Source - Nov '03
- One Step Further: Volunteer Services and Agency-wide Education - Aug '03
- When a Volunteer Transforms into an Employee - June '01
- Unskilled vs. Differently Skilled: Maximize Volunteer Differences - Nov '00
- Staff Resistance and Highly-Skilled Volunteers - May '99
- Why Is It Labor Unions vs. Volunteers? - June '99
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