Starting & Managing Your Own Program
Ten Organizational Standards for Quality Volunteer Management* will help you get started or reinvigorate an existing program.-The Canadian Code for Volunteering Involvement
Nevada Volunteers endorses the Service Enterprise Initiative for nonprofit and business volunteer programs. A Service Enterprise is an organization that fundamentally leverages volunteers and their skills across all levels of the organization to successfully deliver on its social mission.
General resources
- Ten Organizational Standards for Quality Volunteer Management
- Volunteer Match: Webinars
- Volunteer Match: Books, papers, and more
- Get listed on NV Volunteer Connect
Ten Standards
Connect volunteers with the organization's purpose and mission
Policies and procedures define and support volunteer involvement
Volunteer coordination by a specific person with appropriate qualifications
Evaluate and improve program impacts and volunteer contributions
Strategic recruitment to engage a diverse volunteer base
Volunteer position descriptions that fit the mission
Screening and Interviewing volunteers
Toolkit
Orientation and training for volunteers
Supervising and Giving Feedback
Toolkit
- 4-H Volunteer Management: A Handbook for Expanding Volunteer Management Systems in a Local 4-H Youth Program
- Emergency Exits
- Evaluation and Feedback For Volunteer Position
- Volunteer Discipline Procedures
Recognition and retention of volunteers
Toolkit