Effective Practices Provided by Hands On Network
Focus: Leveraging Volunteers
- Allaying typical concerns of first-time volunteers
- Assessing community needs before planning a service project
- Assessing potential partnerships with community-based organizations
- Assessing your organization's potential for partnerships
- Considering the types of volunteers available to your program
- Contacting potential partners
- Creating budgets for volunteer projects
- Deciding on the "right" volunteer project for your program
- Deepening the connection between service activities and civic involvement
- Developing position descriptions for volunteers
- Ensuring safety during service projects
- Establishing campus connections for engaging college students as volunteer leaders
- Finalizing your service day project plan
- Keeping volunteers motivated by maintaining positive communication
- Mapping your volunteer project
- Moving from reflection to action with a volunteer plan
- Planning the logistics of a volunteer service project
- Recruiting college students as volunteer leaders
- Supporting student volunteers in building leadership skills
- Thinking through the details of a service project: a checklist
- Understanding and facilitating group process when engaging student volunteer leaders
- Using a project calendar to assist with recruiting and scheduling volunteers
- Using viral marketing to recruit student volunteer leaders
Additional effective practices related to leveraging volunteers.
