The Untapped Potential Of Volunteering Management
All not-for-profit organisations exist to solve community problems or meet community needs, but no matter how good their fundraising is they will never able to hire enough people to really solve those problems or fully meet those needs.
In every community there are lots of people who are concerned enough about the problems and needs of their communities that they would give their skills and energies to solve them but they do not know to get involved, and they are never asked because the organisations haven’t thought about roles which would let them get involved in any significant way.
In his book The Complete Book Of Volunteer Management, Rick Lynch lays out advice for the people who manage volunteers in today’s organisations. To find out more about this please click here