Volunteer Work Design

Books and e-Volunteerism articles on this topic

Articles and book excerpts on this topic:

• Are You Willing To Have Volunteers Get Really Involved? from Benevon
• Marketing and Recruiting Volunteers, by Monika Penner on Charity Village
• Rethinking Volunteer Engagement, from Volunteer Canada
• Tips for defining volunteer positions from the Volunteer Center of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, CA

• Volunteer Coordination: Strategies for Success by Mark J. Hurley, Illinois Parks & Recreation

• Volunteer Programs: Build It before They Come, by Karen King, Management Guide #5 of the Nonprofit Leadership And Administration, Western Michigan University
• What's in a Name? from A People Lens: 101 Ways to Move Your Organization Forward

Free electronic books on this topic:

Doing Good Well:  Engaging Ad Hoc Volunteers, from the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, Singapore (2008, 40-pg PDF)

A Matter of Design:  Job Design Theory and Application to the Voluntary Sector, by Volunteer Canada (71 pg. PDF)

Recruit and Reward Volunteers Participant Guide  

A self-learning booklet from the Gill foundation on planning and preparing for volunteers, job design, interviewing, etc. (31 page PDF)

Tips for Involving Volunteers  

Guide to preparing and planning for volunteers, and developing job descriptions, from Volunteering Australia (pdf document).

Web sites with useful information on this topic:

EnVision 

http://envision.ca/templates/resources.asp?ID=112

Basics on why and how of volunteer job descriptions from the Community Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador

Hands for Nature Volunteer Management Handbook 

http://www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/docs/hands/index.html

Chapter 2: Recruiting Volunteers (includes job design overview) from Evergreen in Canada

Needs and Position

http://www.hrca.ns.ca/volunteer/manual/section1/section1.htm

Section 1 of the Volunteer Manual from the Halifax Regional CAP Association (Canada)

Toolkit for Family Readiness Groups

http://www.defenselink.mil/ra/documents/toolkit/Commanders
%20Toolkit%200328.pdf

Chapter 2:  Volunteer Management - Job Descriptions, from the US National Guard and Reserves

Volunteer Job Descriptions

Focused on officers of all-volunteer groups, from the Risk & Insurance Management Society.

Work Enrichment section of the Ivan Scheier Volunteerism Archive

http://academic.regis.edu/volunteer/Ivan/sect06.htm

Classic, timeless information on the subject.

 

 

Relevant Hot Topic essays:

• Encouraging Entrepreneurial Volunteering - Nov '06
• The Missing Link: Where are Volunteers at the National Level? - Aug '02

• Tackling Causes Not Symptoms: New/Old Roles for Volunteers - Nov '01
• Unskilled vs. Differently Skilled: Maximize Volunteer Differences - Nov '00
• The Holiday Season: Going Beyond "Feel-Good" Volunteering - Dec '97

7/14/08

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