e-Volunteerism: The Electronic Journal of the Volunteer Community

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"It's Never Over: Ongoing Screening of Volunteers and Paid Staff"

by Linda L. Graff

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Volunteering and volunteer work have changed dramatically in the last few years. So too have management practices in the not-for-profit sector as shrinking resources combined with increasing demands for service press administrators to search for new ways of doing business. One of the consequences of these changes has been an increase in the responsibilities assigned to volunteers and paid staff. These new responsibilities have increased the burden on organizations to manage all the paid and unpaid human resources they have mobilized.

As paid and unpaid staff members perform more sophisticated duties and as they work more directly with increasingly vulnerable populations, there is a concomitant increase in the dual burdens of responsibility and liability on the organizations that deploy them.

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e-Volunteerism: The Electronic Journal of the Volunteerism Community
ISSN: 1531-3794

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