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Applauding and Thanking Volunteers
Discover more than one way to "applaud" the people who dedicate their time and effort to benefit another person, group, or organization. Energize's volunteer management books and resources can help you provide more meaningful volunteer recognition and appreciation. Find new ways to celebrate the accomplishments of everyone in your organization, both volunteers and employees.
Now is the time to think of some of those ways with the season for recognizing volunteers on a national level about to kick off. Many countries annually designate specific "volunteer weeks." Below is a list of several of them, with the dates for 2017 and links to free information and resources for each country.
Keeping Volunteers: A Guide to Retention Steve McCurley and Rick Lynch
Focusing on making sure volunteers feel recognized and appreciated on an ongoing basis, this book contains two chapters on making volunteers feel special and adapting recognition techniques to the unique accomplishments and personalities of each volunteer.
Don't wait for volunteer appreciation week to make volunteers feel valued. Make the most of daily opportunities to say thank you with ideas from each page of this booklet.
Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers Module 12: Volunteer Recognition Betty Stallings
Ready-to-use and adaptable training tools for teaching staff the significance of meaningful recognition and to generate creative formal and informal ways to acknowledge volunteers and staff.
Transform your next recognition event with songs, smiles, and this collection of seven original skits, complete with instructions, scripts and ideas for adaptation.
Poetry can say some things hard to express in sober declarative text. Volunteerism guru,
Ivan Scheier, demonstrates this by sharing several of his poems as well as wonderful lyrics to "The Volunteer Song" by Paul Horrisberger.
Emma Corrigan
presents a step-by-step résumé writing activity as a way to support and thank volunteers. Her simple yet innovative design highlights how easily others in the organization can share responsibility for recognizing volunteers' contributions.
Energize empowers and inspires leaders of volunteers worldwide. Our specialty is creating and selecting the most relevant, innovative resources in volunteer management. We're advocates for the power of volunteers and for the recognition of the leaders who unleash it.