Volunteer Management Certification

Nonprofit volunteer expert Stephanie Cory will reveal secrets that will enable you to build a productive, cost-free team to help your organization achieve its mission. You will learn how to power your nonprofit while advancing your career with a meaningful certification.

Topics Covered

Preparing Your Organization For Working With Volunteers
Building Your Volunteer Management Infrastructure
Recruiting And Orienting Volunteers
Managing And Engaging Volunteers

Training Overview

Earn your Volunteer Management Certification and fast track your skills. Transform your volunteer program in the new year.

It’s a new year, and new volunteers are a high priority for nonprofits as organizations seek to continue delivering services, generating awareness, and raising funds. Volunteers are a way to add to what your staff can accomplish.

Whether your organization has a few occasional volunteers or a robust volunteer program, effective management is critical. You need to recruit volunteers, identify appropriate roles, ensure high productivity, and retain them. To help you accomplish these goals, we are offering a certification program packed with new ideas and best practices:

Volunteer Management Certification

Session 1: Preparing Your Organization For Working With Volunteers

Key policies to protect your organization and your volunteers
How to mitigate common risks related to volunteers
The Volunteer Protection Act of 1997

Session 2: Building Your Volunteer Management Infrastructure

Needs assessment to determine appropriate volunteer placements
Job descriptions for a variety of volunteer roles
Differentiating between volunteer and staff roles

Session 3: Recruiting And Orienting Volunteers

What motivates people to volunteer
Thorough volunteer orientation planning
Screening for volunteers

Session 4: Managing And Engaging Volunteers

Supervision for volunteers
Ways to motivate and recognize volunteers
Methods for addressing challenging volunteer behaviors

Who Should Attend?

Fundraising professionals
Volunteers with planned giving responsibilities
Development directors
Communications directors
Communications staff

Executive directors
Members of fundraising committees
Board members involved in fundraising
Major gift directors
Planned giving coordinators

Expert Presenter

Stephanie Cory

Works with nonprofit organizations of all sizes to strengthen governance and fundraising
Served in executive director, development, and program management roles
Adjunct faculty member for Villanova University’s College of Professional Studies, teaching nonprofit topics
Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE)
Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®) from the American College of Financial Services
Certified Governance Trainer through BoardSource
Licensed consultant through the Standards for Excellence® Institute

See What Others Are Saying:

"I felt like it was very informative. I am greatly appreciative of her shared knowledge. I enjoyed the break down of Employees as volunteers, ordinary volunteerism and really understanding how to separate the difference. How much we covered in a short amount of time. My takeaway today was creating a Policies and procedures just as we would for our employees."

-Channing G.

"Biggest Takeaway: I learned more about our liability that I did not know or undersrtand. It was very usefull."

"It reinforced my own management style."

-Tom W.

"Biggest Takeaway: The importance of clear policies and procedure and nuts and bolts of starting a volunteer program"

-Liane P.

"Favorite Part: I liked how much it brought to my attention that I wasn't aware of and now know I need to implement to my group."

-Catherine O.

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