Application: Volunteer Impact

Board Governance & Volunteer Management

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Volunteers have a big impact on nonprofit organizations. They are, if you will, the worker bees who engage in the day-to-day tasks that keep an organization running. Therefore, it is essential to place qualified volunteers into roles appropriate for their skills, and in which they can have the greatest positive impact on the organization. While volunteers provide essential visible and behind the scenes assistance, their roles must be appropriate and clearly defined given their impact.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review the volunteer roles you created for your Discussion, and consider which ones might be the most important to the success of your Final Project organization.
• Think about how successful completion of these roles and responsibilities might have a positive impact on your organization.
• Review Chapter 11 in your course text, Volunteer Management, and reflect on the ways in which volunteers can go astray in their responsibilities, leading to negative impacts on an organization.
• Consider any potential negative impact on your organization that volunteers might have in fulfilling the roles and responsibilities you created in your Discussion.

The assignment (1-2 pages):

• Briefly describe your Final Project organization.
• Choose a nongoverning volunteer role or responsibility from your Discussion, one that you think is especially important to your Final Project organization.
• Explain the potential positive impact of a volunteer serving in this role or carrying out this responsibility, using specific examples.
• Explain the potential negative impact of a volunteer serving in this same role or carrying out the same responsibility, using specific examples.

Learning Resources

Readings
volunteer_management_chapter_11.pdf

• Course Text: Volunteer Management
  • Chapter 1, “An Introduction to Volunteer Involvement” (pp. 1-26)
  • Chapter 11, “Keeping Volunteers on Track” (pp. 185-208)

Web Sites

• Kerka, S. (2003). Volunteer development. Practice application brief. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 26, 1-4. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED475111.pdf

   

Web Sites

• International Erosion Control Association. (n.d.). The Role of Volunteers in Not-for-Profit Organizations. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from https://www.ieca.org/Chapter/LeadershipTraining/RoleOfVolunteers.pdf

• McNamara, C. (2008). Developing and Managing Volunteer Programs. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from http://managementhelp.org/staffing/volunteers.htm

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.