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by Jayne Cravens
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Effective Volunteer Engagement:
Support for Volunteers/Management of Volunteers & Safety Considerations

 
I am adamant that safety and support policies and procedures for volunteers MUST be in place BEFORE you start recruiting volunteers. If you don't, your volunteer recruitment will
In addition, your retainment of volunteers will plummet if you recruit before you have fully explored and defined how you will onboard volunteers, how you will support them, policies and procedures, etc. 

All of the resources I have regarding the support for and management of volunteers, as well as safety in engaging volunteers, are linked from this one page because I believe they are inextricably linked - it's impossible to separate these two issues.

Please note: my advice for supporting and managing volunteers is fully detailed in The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement. Everything written below is represented in that book - in greater detail than here on this web site.
 

Support & Safety for Volunteers


UNITeS

The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) was an initiative launched by the UN Secretary General that promotes volunteerism as fundamental to information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D). Two resources in particular were developed by me:

Other initiatives


Also before recruitment, you also have to have foundations in place (no excuses) and you have to create roles and tasks for volunteers.

 
 Return to this web site's index of volunteer engagement-related resources  

 

And also time to have a look at:

 The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook:
Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement.


A comprehensive guide to using online tools for supporting & engaging ALL volunteers, & for creating online roles & online tasks for volunteers.

The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Virtual Volunteering At Any Organization.

Here's how to order
(includes table of contents and reviews).

 
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