Online Resources - Volunteer Recruitment & Management
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- Mentoring Across Generations: Engaging 50+ Adults as Mentors (published by MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership)
This new resource provides research and tools for recruiting, training, and retaining older volunteer mentors. A great resource for any program looking to add diversity and growth to their mentor recruitment goals.
Direct link to the PDF file: http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_389.pdf - Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Guide Based on Exploratory Research (published by the Corporation for National Service)
This excellent publication examines a common trouble spot for mentoring programs: how to bring in more men as volunteers. Based on a year-long Corporation for National Service study, this how-to guide should help any program that is looking for male recruitment strategies. Direct link to the PDF file: http://www.energizeinc.com/download/blackman.pdf - Recruiting Mentors: a Guide to Finding Volunteers to Work With Youth (published by the National Mentoring Center and Public/Private Ventures)
This third publication in the Technical Assistance Packet Series looks at ways programs can attract more volunteers, specifically the traditionally under-recruited groups of seniors and college students. Direct link to the PDF file: http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/packthree.pdf - Marketing for the Recruitment of Mentors (published by the National Mentoring Center)
This comprehensive guide connects the principles of marketing with the recruitment of volunteer mentors. Designed as a workbook, it offers numerous worksheets and tools to help your program plan for and implement a marketing plan. It covers everything from creating effective media messages to building a strong program "brand" in the community. Direct link to the PDF file: http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/marketing.pdf - Putting the "Men" back in Mentoring- Special theme issue of the NMC Bulletin (published by the National Mentoring Center)
This issue of the NMC Bulletin featured several articles dealing with the topic of male recruitment for mentoring programs. Direct link to the PDF file: http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/v2n2.pdf - Recruitment Tips for a Mentoring Program (produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service)
This web page offers great practical advice for recruiting a variety of mentors.
Web version: http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/citizenship/DH6497.html - Energize, Inc. Web site
One of the premier volunteer recruitment and management resources on the Web. This site features browsable monthly essays on volunteer topics and collections of links to volunteer topics, such as recruitment tips and strategies for volunteer supervision.
Web site: http://www.energizeinc.com - Negotiating the Legal Maze to Volunteer Service (published by the Nonprofit Risk Management Center)
This guide is intended to help nonprofit organizations become aware of the existence of laws that may affect their volunteer staff and to guide these organizations away from activities that could amount to an unintentional violation of state or federal law. A great resource for ED grantees as they bring volunteers into and around school settings and build their own staff.
Web version: http://www.nonprofitrisk.org/csb/csb_mze.htm - Developing and Managing Volunteer Programs (produced by the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits)
This comprehensive collection of web links to full-text articles is invaluable to anyone running a volunteer program. Main topics covered include risk management, recruitment and retention techniques, training and supervision, and evaluation of volunteer services.
Web site: http://www.managementhelp.org/staffing/outsrcng/volnteer/volnteer.htm - Volunteer Management for Program Directors (produced by CASA)
This set of online articles, developed to aid CASA program directors, contains a wealth of information that can assist ED grantees with volunteer management. It contains useful tools such as sample volunteer contracts, resources on background checks, sample recruitment materials, and techniques for successful volunteer supervision.
Web site: http://www.casanet.org/program-management/volunteer-manage - Resources for Mentor Programs (produced by the California Governor's Mentoring Partnership)
Toward the bottom of this page are several sample recruitment letters, press releases, marketing templates, and other materials that can be useful in attracting volunteers. ED grantees can get many useful ideas from looking at these sample materials.
Web site: http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/nmp_resources.shtm
