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Friday Aug 17, 2007

Volunteer Management Training- Dare to Care

Hi again people!

On the 30th July I went to a Volunteer Management Training Day - 'Dare to Care' which was lead by Volunteer Management Guru Steve McCurley from the USA.  It was about developing your organisation for involvement of volunteers and Capacity building through your volunteers.

He talked to us about recuiting volunteers, interviewing volunteers, confidentiality, retaining volunteers, finding appropriate positions and where in the organisation you can have volunteers...which is practically everywhere  How you can lose volunteers interesting fact for you people.....'You can lose a volunteer in the first instance of making contact with them' if you don't get in touch as soon as possible and keep in touch you are likely to lose a volunteer, before they even start to volunteer.

We did a lot of group work too...Looking at your own role and how much time you spend on doing different bits and peices and where you could actually recruit volunteers, to do parts of the work you do within an organisation.

Do-it.org got a mention too

It was really a good day's training....

Posted by Moira ( 2:33 PM )
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