Farewell and Welcome
e-Volunteerism has been incredibly fortunate to have a devoted and stable editorial team, with several serving in their positions since the journal began publishing in 2000.
One member of this original group is Betty Stallings, Designer/Editor of our Training Designs feature section, who is departing our team with this issue. Betty built and managed a wonderful and special element of our journal and her impact is evident by browsing the rich variety of training ideas and tools she has shepherded to press in the past 12 years. Thank you so very much, Betty, for your enthusiasm, hard work and meeting deadlines!
Betty is moving on from e-Volunteerism, but she is not retiring from the field. She remains president of Building Better Skills based in Pleasanton, CA. Many readers know her from her many (and continuing) international training presentations and from her important volunteer management and fundraising books, the most recent being Leading the Way to Successful Volunteer Involvement: Practical Tools for Busy Executives. Betty has provided the field with the 12-module, ready-to-present Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series.
Colleague, co-author, thought leader and good friend – I will miss you here, Betty, but look forward to many more years together, tilting at windmills elsewhere.
Of course, the show must go on. As Betty departs, we are delighted to welcome Sue Jones to the role of Training Designs Editor. Sue is the training manager at Volunteer Centre Warrington in England, leading the development and delivery of a range of learning products within their Excellence in Volunteer Management programme, including qualifications, bespoke training, workshops and e-learning.
Volunteer Centre Warrington was the volunteer management lead in England for the European Year of Volunteering 2011. Sue is currently heading a team of volunteers who work as volunteer managers to help champion issues in the profession and to create a new generation of voices in the field. She has also pioneered a series of podcasts on key issues facing volunteerism. Read more about her on the editorial team page.
Having watched Sue develop an international presence, I was eager to add her to the leadership of e-Volunteerism and am very much looking forward to partnering with her. In her own words, Sue “is passionate about raising the profile of the profession and about developing volunteer managers to realise their potential.” Starting with the next issue, I am certain she will put her own mark on our Training Designs section. Welcome aboard!
Susan J. Ellis
Editor-in-Chief