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"Exploring the Impact of Volunteer Trends"
by Betty
Stallings
Keeping a volunteer program responsive to today's volunteers involves
leading a periodic environmental scan to determine what trends are factors
in attracting and retaining volunteers. It is important that all staff
and leadership volunteers understand these trends. They have implications
that impact your organization's success at recruitment, supervision, risk
management, recognition, designing volunteer jobs and other key elements
of good program management.
I would suggest that you do an annual "Trends Training" with key staff
and volunteers in your organization. By using the simple exercise that
follows, organizations can be educated about the trends, issues and needs
of today's volunteers and can be provided with a context to identify the
challenges and opportunities inherent in them. After this process, an
organization is positioned to adapt its current program by strategically
taking full advantage of the trends while diminishing their challenges
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