Energize's Consulting and Training Services

Based in Philadelphia, Energize, Inc. has conducted consultations and trainings with clients all across the United States and Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Known for our extensive knowledge of the volunteer management field and our ability to tailor our consults and workshops to the unique needs of an organization, we can promise positive results.

Here are some ways we can help you:

Our Workshops
Energize has designed and delivered hundreds of volunteerism training seminars at the national, regional, state and local levels. We have a reputation for presenting cutting-edge information in formats that fully involve trainees.

We can present training to meet your situation, tailored to the size of your group, its skill level, and your timeframe. You can invite several agencies to share the costs of a training workshop and reimburse the expenses through registration fees. (Think beyond your own network. Maybe there are other government or nonprofit agencies in your community who would welcome the chance to learn more about volunteerism. Talk to your Volunteer Center, too.)

Possible topics include:

• Gaining administrative support for volunteer participation
• How to recruit volunteers
• Employee/volunteer relationships
• How to be an effective leader of an all-volunteer organization

Consultations
We see consultation as a collaborative process, blending Energize's expertise and objectivity with your understanding of day-to-day operations. Rather than make decisions for you, we help you to select the best strategy from the range of options we develop together during the consultation period.

We can talk with you about program goals, processes, strategies, recordkeeping, forms and any other issue of concern to you. Consults can be provided in a mix of formats: one-to-one, small group, before or after a training workshop.

Volunteer Management Staff Development Plan -
Everyone Ready^®
In 2005, Energize piloted a new volunteer management staff development program for national organizations.  Called Everyone Ready ^®, this now fully-developed service delivers a year-round calendar of online seminars, self-instruction guides in PDF format, a portal to e-Volunteerism, and other training resources designed to build volunteer program management skills across the entire network of each organization. Download a description of what is offered in Everyone Ready^®.

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12/27/06