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Engaging Volunteers for Organizational Capacity Building

Get Involved: Powered By Your Library is a California State Library initiative aimed at engaging volunteers in organizational capacity building. This project overview emphasizes the importance of starting small, experimenting, and learning together as a community of practice. It also highlights the benefits of boomer volunteer engagement and provides best practice resources for organizations to increase diversity, expand communication, and create training opportunities.

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Engaging Volunteers for Organizational Capacity Building

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  1. Get Involved: Powered By Your Library, A California State Library Initiative for 2008-2009 Engaging Volunteers in Organizational Capacity Building

  2. Steps to Volunteer Engagement

  3. Project Overview • Community of practice • Start small, experiment, and learn together • Follow through • Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today Thrive Tomorrow as text • Interactive PDFs: www.boomervolunteerengagement.org • Best practice

  4. Learning Objectives

  5. Trends and Issues Flickr: jamelah

  6. Trends and Issues Flickr: jamelah

  7. Technology Expand Communication Increase Diversity Create Training Opportunities Flickr: Wysz

  8. Additional Trends Flickr: jamelah

  9. Philosophical Foundation

  10. Philosophical Foundation (cont.)

  11. Capacity Building

  12. Capacity Builders

  13. Changing Staff Roles

  14. Volunteer Engagement Readiness Assessment

  15. Volunteer Engagement Readiness Assessment

  16. A New Paradigm

  17. A New Paradigm

  18. Needs Assessment

  19. Critical Intervention Points An element of behavior, policy, or process that presents an opportunity to be affected through strategic volunteer engagement and that, if successfully implemented, makes significant change for a positive result. Organizations that are highly effective in the engagement of volunteers consistently display a high degree of shared leadership. (Merrill & Associates, 1996) Flickr: Byrnesyliam

  20. Focus on Strategy • Translate the strategic plan • Facilitate volunteer leadership • Ensure participation Flickr: seandreilinger

  21. Critical Intervention Points Flickr: Stephen Dyrgas

  22. Critical Intervention Points • What is critical? • Critical intervention points lead to turning points; they are crucial or decisive; often essential and indispensable. • Outcome alignment? • Urgency? • Relevance? Flickr: Stephen Dyrgas

  23. Critical Intervention Points • Choose a meaningful place to intervene • Has potential to create powerful results • Mitigates or prevents a crisis • Moves an initiative forward • Solves a problem • Meets an objective • Creates momentum Flickr: Stephen Dyrgas

  24. Critical Intervention Point Questions • Does it play to a strength? • Will it come as a surprise to any key stakeholders? • What changes to current practice are needed? • Do existing volunteers have the expertise and time to carry this out – or to be trained?

  25. Critical Intervention Point Questions • Are more or different volunteers needed? • New position descriptions? • Cross-generational appeal? • What are the biggest anticipated challenges? • What are you willing to invest? • What aren’t you willing to invest? • Is it sustainable?

  26. Process Summary

  27. Process Summary (cont.)

  28. Creating the Case

  29. For Next Time

  30. Boomer Volunteer Engagement Downloadable PDFs www.boomervolunteerengagement.org

  31. Creating Capacity

  32. Learning Objectives

  33. Resources • Managing Transition: Making the Most of Change, William Bridges • Flawless Consulting, Peter Block • Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, Marc Freedman • The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell • Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow , Jill Friedman Fixler and SandieEichberg, with Gail Lorenz CVA Flickr: Darren Hester

  34. Thank you! Next Webinar: January 21 10am PT Mapping the Initiative

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