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Raising Charitable Children
Warmly provides practical tips for adults to share the gifts of generosity, selflessness, and compassion with children of all ages and get past the "gimme-gimme" mind-set.
The Rants and Raves Anthology
We invited the best-selling authors in the volunteer field to share what's on their minds right now
Recognizing Volunteers and Paid Staff
10 Keys to recognizing volunteers, ends with a list of lots and lots of actions you can take to say thank you.
Running a Safe and Effective Mentoring Program
Clear and streamlined guide to developing a youth mentoring program of excellence, taking you from vision to recruitment, matching, retention, and evaluation.
Secrets of Successful Retreats
A step-by-step guide to planning and facilitating a productive off-site retreat for boards and other volunteers, paid management and line staff, or any combination thereof.
Secrets of Successful Fundraising
Nineteen top fundraising professionals clearly explain all your options for increasing your revenue and promoting your organization.
The Secrets of Successful Boards
A "Boards 101" book for trustees new to boards, for leaders of all-volunteer associations, or for anyone starting a nonprofit from the ground up, with chapters by ten well-known authorities on boards.
Self-Help Accounting
A how-to guide to fulfilling the role of board treasurer, written in simple, clear language for the non-accountant.
Stalking the Elusive Executive
Free e-publication - A dozen tips written mainly for volunteer program managers who need help in gaining administrative support, even to get their bosses to read a book on the topic of volunteers.
Step-by-Step
Ideas for how young people can discover what they care about, gain support, and implement a plan for change.
Take Your Partner for the Corporate Tango
Clear guide to community/corporate collaboration, including how to prepare, choose a suitable partner, assure a successful working relationship, and other practical do’s and don’ts (from Australia).
Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series (Limited Multi-Use License)
12 ready-to-deliver, but completely adaptable, training sessions for teaching paid staff the fundamentals of working with volunteers in your setting.
Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series (Complete Set)
12 ready-to-deliver, but completely adaptable, training sessions for teaching paid staff the fundamentals of working with volunteers in your setting.
Training Module 1 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Designing Positions for Volunteers
Designed to sensitize volunteers and staff to the significance of written volunteer job descriptions.
Training Module 2 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Recruitment
Explores targeted volunteer recruitment: develop a strategy of invitation to reach the best people to fill your volunteer positions.
Training Module 3 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Interviewing Volunteers
Designed to examine the need for interviewing and screening volunteers and to share the basic process and skills necessary to do it effectively.
Training Module 4 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Motivation
Explores why people volunteer and teaches how to respect and respond to differences in motivational needs.
Training Module 5 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Supervising Volunteers
Identifies the basic skills and characteristics of good volunteer supervision, clarifies the supervisor's role with volunteers, and explores methods and systems for carrying out this role.
Training Module 6 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Orienting and Training Volunteers
Explores the rationale and elements of volunteer orientation and training, and how to deal with the challenges inherent in training today's volunteers.
Training Module 7 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Delegating to Volunteers
Explores the values of responsible delegation and teaches procedures and techniques for doing it well.
Training Module 8 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Mutual Performance Reviews
Explores why people volunteer and teaches how to respect and respond to differences in motivational needs.
Training Module 9 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Handling Volunteer Performance Problems
Identifies some of the causes of volunteer performance problems and examines options for dealing with volunteer performance gaps.
Training Module 10 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Program Evaluation
Discusses the purpose and values of a volunteer program evaluation and helps identify the steps needed to carry out an evaluation.
Training Module 11 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Risk Management in Volunteer Programs
Shares the importance of adhering to policies and procedures for managing risk in a volunteer program, as well as suggestions for controlling, alleviating or diminishing risk.
Training Module 12 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Recognition
Helps salaried and volunteer staff appreciate the significance of meaningful recognition and to generate creative formal and informal ways to acknowledge volunteers and staff.