Training Module 11 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Risk Management in Volunteer Programs

Shares the importance of adhering to policies and procedures for managing risk in a volunteer program, as well as suggestions for controlling, alleviating or diminishing risk.

Training Module 12 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Recognition

Helps salaried and volunteer staff appreciate the significance of meaningful recognition and to generate creative formal and informal ways to acknowledge volunteers and staff.

Visionary Leadership in Volunteer Programs: Insight and Inspiration from the Speeches of Marlene Wilson

A collection of favorite and most-requested presentations from Marlene Wilson, volunteer management pioneer and leader in the field in the USA.

Volunteer Management for Animal Care Organizations

Geared specifically to the challenges posed by an animal shelter environment but can help any animal care organisation build its volunteer program.

Volunteer Management: Mobilizing All the Resources of the Community, 3rd Edition

The most widely utilised text in the world on the theory and practice of managing a volunteer program, now updated and expanded.

Volunteer Management Audit

A validating tool for analysing the effectiveness of an organisation's volunteer management practices, with complete Scoresheets and instructions to conduct the process successfully.

Volunteer Program Management: an essential guide
3rd edition

Truly an "essential guide," the book is filled with solid information for both starting and stengthening a volunteer program in any setting.

Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book, Third Edition

Complete guide to recruitment, from designing volunteer roles to assessing your organisation’s image to where and how to look for new volunteers. Long chapter on membership development for all-volunteer organisations.

Volunteering and the Test of Time

Drawing together a selection of articles, this book illuminates the ways that the political and social context in which volunteering operates has changed from the 1990s to the present.

Volunteering by People with Disabilities

A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people with disabilities in volunteer work as a route to opportunity, with a realistic approach to issues and barriers.

Volunteering by Unemployed People

A guide from the UK on how to recruit and retain people who are unemployed in volunteer work as a route to opportunity, with a realistic approach to issues and barriers.

What Can I Say?

A clear, concise guide on how to communicate with people who are ill.

What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives

A very timely analysis of a major challenge facing nonprofits today - how to properly assess social impacts and the important contributions of volunteers.

What We Learned (the Hard Way) about Supervising Volunteers

Advice, wisdom, and experience from over 85 real-life, on-the-job supervisors of volunteers: crystal clear analysis of what works and what doesn’t in supervision.

When Everyone's a Volunteer

Challenges conventional wisdom about boards, fundraising, and membership development when applied to grassroots volunteer efforts. Includes great group interaction exercises.

Working Shoulder to Shoulder: Stories and Strategies of Youth-Adult Partnerships That Succeed

Stories and strategies of youth-adult partnerships that succeed, with over 20 reproducible tools to help you engage youth participants to the greatest effect in your organisation.

You Cannot Be Serious

Packed with practical information, stories, tools and resources, this guide provides support and advice for people committed to making their organisations more socially inclusive and including individuals with mental health problems as volunteers.

The Youth Volunteer Audit

An assessment and planning tool for developing best practices for dealing with young people as volunteers, complete with forms to copy and use again.