Volunteer Management
WORKSHOPS - TRAINING - WEBINARS
Free Volunteer Educational Opportunities - August 2022
In an effort to support our community of volunteer leaders during these unexpected challenges, Volunteer Fairfax is offering a series of FREE volunteer management educational opportunities.
Starting Smart: The Basics of Volunteer Recruitment  
Wednesday, August 3, 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT
The first step to growing a volunteer program can make all the difference in achieving your organization's mission. This webinar will look at the types of planning, strategic thinking, communications vehicles, interviewing procedures, screening techniques, and on-boarding rules to recruit your newest and best volunteer team members. Great for someone new to volunteer recruitment or someone who needs new inspiration to refresh your corps of volunteers.
Brainstorming to Design the Right VolunteerFest Project
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 2 pm - 3pm EDT
Looking to take advantage of VolunteerFest 2022, a day of service with motivated volunteers? Let's brainstorm ways for you to recruit the volunteers you need to make an impact on your organization and community! We can share past projects - with successes or lessons learned - to help you find new ideas heading into the 2022 program. Whether new to VolunteerFest or a veteran of many years of our flagship program, please join us and get inspired. This webinar is ideal for any Volunteer Director, Manager, Coordinator or Team Lead who is looking for ideas on how to engage volunteers with at-home and/or in-person service projects. VolunteerFest will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022.
Secrets of Successful Meetings   
Thursday, August 18 2 pm - 3 pm EDT
Whether working with boards, committees, volunteers or staff, any meeting should be a well-planned, well-strategized meeting. It can move your work forward with vision, cohesive decisions and support good governance. This workshop will address what needs to be done before, during and after your next meeting. We'll address common challenges faced at meetings with a special focus on virtual meetings. This webinar is great for volunteer managers, executive directors, board chairs, committee chairs, and any others who lead meetings.
Empowering Volunteers to Lead  
Tuesday, August 23, 2 pm – 3 pm EDT
Can your volunteers take it to the next level and become your best volunteer leader? Let’s discuss how you can recruit, target, engage, coach and transform volunteers to become all that you need them to be. We will talk about identifying volunteers and potential leaders, becoming more coach than supervisor, and discovering the recognition hot buttons for your shining volunteer stars.  
Volunteer Management Book Club Selection 
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
by Doyle Canning & Patrick Reinsborough 
Thursday, September 8  2 pm – 3:30 pm  EDT
Storytelling can be a valuable volunteer management skill whether recruiting new volunteers, explaining volunteer impact to your colleagues, or capturing the moment for a grant proposal. After reading Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World (2017) we will discuss how, as volunteer managers, we can discover storytelling skills as another powerful tool to impact our world.  Our special guest for our discussion is Professor John D. Trybus, Ph.D., Executive Director of Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication. Dr. Trybus’ work includes how to engage volunteers in story efforts. And, as he begins to develop new research and writing projects, he is seeking input on what the volunteer management community would like in a future social impact storytelling book.   
 
Purchase via Amazon ($16.09, $9.99 Kindle) or your favorite bookseller. Read, reflect and join us in September for the discussion!
Dial-in information will be provided to you prior to the webinar. If you have any questions about Volunteer Fairfax’s educational opportunities, just ask! Contact Susan Sanow.