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Preparing Your Agency

Books and articles with this topic as a major theme are shown below, but the topic may also be incorporated into other books we sell. So try searching on related keywords as well.

Book coverBranch 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.

Book coverFrom the Top Down

Outlines the key executive decisions necessary to lay the foundation for effective volunteer involvement: policies, budgeting, staffing, employee-volunteer relationships, legal issues, cost and value of volunteers, and more. Revised in 2010!

Book coverThe (Help!) I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management

Managing a volunteer program part-time? Or just not enough hours in a day? Full task analysis of the job of volunteer program manager, how to build a management team and engage volunteers in leadership of the program.

Book coverLeading the Way to Successful Volunteer Involvement: Practical Tools for Busy Executives

A set of checklists, worksheets, idea stimulators, and other practical guides for senior-level leaders to incorporate volunteer involvement as a key ingredient in the overall strategy of an organization.

Book coverWhat We Learned (the Hard Way) about Supervising Volunteers

Advice, wisdom, and experience from over 85 real-life, on-the-job supervisors of volunteers: crystal clear analysis of what works and what doesn’t in supervision.

This subject is also available in the e-Volunteerism archives: Preparing Your Agency

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