Care and Feeding of Volunteers
Many age Friendly communities depend on volunteers to deliver services and activities that make it easier and safer for people to age in their own homes. This webinar focused on recruitment strategies, training options, volunteer management, and dealing with problem volunteers.
Engaging Volunteers
Part of the Idea and Experience Exchange: Wisdom Inquiry series. This conversation talked about engaging volunteers in your lifelong community work.
Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers in Rural Communities
Across our network we’ve heard from organizations and communities – especially in rural parts of our states – that they rely on volunteers to carry out their missions. But finding, engaging, and keeping volunteers can be a significant challenge. This webinar explores how communities in rural areas are successfully recruiting volunteers and the strategies they use to keep them engaged for the long-haul! Gain inspiration and hear lessons learned, and practical strategies you can use!
So You Want to Run a Volunteer Program…
Your lifelong community team has completed an assessment and written an action plan that identified the need to create a volunteer program to fill a gap in what is available in your community for older people. The committee can’t do all the work themselves so you decide it is time to develop a volunteer program. Now what?