77 Ways to Recognize Volunteers

An idea-a-page to show real appreciation for volunteers.

77 Ways to Recruit Volunteers

An idea-a-page for successful recruitment.

A Toolkit for Volunteer Speed Matching

Think Speed Dating meets Volunteer Recruiting! One clever volunteer center outside of London produced this Toolkit for the perfect, fun and upbeat recruiting event.

The A-Z of Volunteering and Asylum: A Handbook for Managers

Refugees and asylum-seekers are potential new volunteers in England and other countries. Learn how to reach out successfully to involve this growing population for mutual benefits.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Youth Leadership

Sensible and inspiring advice for adults who truly want to engage young people in meaningful leadership volunteer roles, with how-to tips on everything from recruitment to intergenerational meetings.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Service-Learning

A clear and informative strategy for schools, faith communities, and youth organizations to blend the best of effective service-learning programs with the philosophy of youth "asset building" and Healthy Communities.

Best of All: The Quick Reference Guide To Effective Volunteer Involvement

A concise compendium of best practices in volunteer program management.

Better Safe. . .

Demystifies risk management and sets out in plain language what every volunteer program needs to know about this sometimes scary, always critical subject.

Beyond Police Checks

Definitive guide for screening volunteers and employees, explaining why and how to assure everyone's protection.

Branch Networks in the 21st Century: A Handbook

Helps those in national or large organizations to think about how branch or regional offices can strengthen, support, and extend their reach.

Build a Better Board in 30 Days

Great reminders for experienced board members and an easy orientation for new board members.

Building Staff/Volunteer Relations

Insight into (and humor about) the reasons for tension between employees and volunteers and practical strategies for designing satisfying work for both groups.

By Definition

A walk-through of the importance of developing policies for and about volunteers, with clear examples and templates.

Employee Volunteering

Shows how the private, public and voluntary sectors can benefit from employee volunteering, and gives clear, practical advice on setting up employee volunteering programs (from the UK).

Friends Across the Divide

All the guidelines and materials necessary for an e-mail exchange between students and senior partners.

Get the Word Out!

Provocative booklet that urges a new attitude toward young people as affected by "adultism" and shows how to be more welcoming to young leaders.

Good Guys: The Eight Steps to Limitless Possibility for Fraternity Recruitment

Learn how to develop a dynamic membership development campaign by applying great, practical tips from two college fraternity leaders (not just for recruiting volunteers on campus!).

Handling Problem Volunteers

Insightful and humorous guide to dealing with a wide range of problem behaviors exhibited by some volunteers, from irritating to seriously dysfunctional.

Keep Those Volunteers Around

A back-to-basics book on volunteer retention.

Keeping Volunteers: A Guide to Retention

How to enhance volunteer retention and motivation, avoid volunteer burnout, get beyond short-term commitments, and more – subjects of critical interest to every volunteer program manager.

Measuring Up

Dozens of forms to plan for and then fairly assess your program readiness, success, climate, volunteer performance, training, change, customer services, communication, recruitment, recognition, image and much more.

Model Volunteer Handbook

Detailed guide to developing an essential handbook for new volunteers, with specific suggested topics and examples of policy statements.

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.

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.

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).

Volunteer Management for Animal Care Organizations

Geared specifically to the challenges posed by an animal shelter environment but can help any animal care organization build its volunteer program.

Volunteer Management: Mobilizing All the Resources of the Community, 2nd Edition

The most widely utilized text in the world on the theory and practice of managing a volunteer program, now updated and expanded.

Volunteer Management: An Essential Guide, 2nd edition

Truly an "essential guide," the book is filled with solid information for both starting and stengthening a volunteer program in any setting.

Volunteering by People with Disabilities

A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people with disabilities in volunteer work as a route to opportunity, with a realistic approach to issues and barriers.

Volunteering by Unemployed People

A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people who are unemployed in volunteer work as a route to opportunity, with a realistic approach to issues and barriers.

What Can I Say?

A clear, concise guide on how to communicate with people who are ill.

When Everyone's a Volunteer

Challenges conventional wisdom about boards, fundraising, and membership development when applied to grassroots volunteer efforts. Includes great group interaction exercises.

You Cannot Be Serious

Packed with practical information, stories, tools and resources, this guide provides support and advice for people committed to making their organizations more socially inclusive and including individuals with mental health problems as volunteers.

Your Guide to Youth Board Involvement and the Law

An analysis of the key legal issues arising when involving young people under the age of 18 on a board of directors, with strategies to maximize youth involvement whatever your state’s laws.

The Youth Volunteer Audit

An assessment and planning tool for developing best practices for dealing with young people as volunteers, complete with forms to copy and use again.