Short-Term Missions Wiki

For Going How to Find a Volunteer Placement and Serve Well (Webcast) (PPt) Standards of Excellence for Volunteers The Hidden Benefits of Helping Connecting Faith and Service Devotionals on Volunteering

For Hosting Personality, Vocation, and Calling Personality Assessment Tools: Holland Codes Big Five Personality Traits DISC Assessment Keirsey Temperament Sorter Organizational Culture Spiritual Gifts Enneagram Myers-Briggs S.H.A.P.E. Short-Term Missions Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions View list of all webcast workshops for volunteers

 

Volunteer Management Training and Resources for Organizations

Planning to Use Volunteers Do You Need a Volunteer? Standards of Excellence for Host Organizations Writing a Volunteer Job Description Recruiting Volunteers Christian Volunteering Manual (DOC) – includes sample recruitment flyers and job descriptions Online Recruitment and Mass Marketing (Powerpoint) Increase Volunteerism in Your Congregation Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers in Faith-Based Organizations Volunteer Listing Services Volunteer Matching Programs Recommended Christian Staff Recruitment Websites Using Work Study Students as Volunteers (Webcast) (PPt) Work Study Recruitment Facts Work Study Toolkit (PDF): Sample Contract Sample Off-Campus Authorization Sample Job Description

Training and Supervising Volunteers Volunteer Management Training for Urban Ministries and Churches (Webcast) (PPt) 12 Basic Needs of Volunteers Standards of Excellence for Volunteer Group Leaders Training Template for Christian Volunteers on How to Serve Well (PPt) Project Management Defining the Volunteer Project Blank Project Schedule Working with Technical Volunteers Conflict Resolution Questions to Determine Problem Behavior 3 Steps to Correct Actions of Problem Volunteers Volunteer Tutor Recognition Tips Recommended Volunteer Management Training Links     View list of all volunteer management presentation webcasts

Church Volunteer Toolkit 

Volunteers are a valuable and necessary human resource for faith-based nonprofits. While volunteers don’t carry employee status in the organization, they do need careful management and training in order to be truly effective in their volunteer tasks. This toolkit features informative articles, printable forms and resource lists to help the nonprofit volunteer manager recruit, train, inform and equip volunteers for successful volunteer work.

Project Development Tools

These articles contain insightful information for developing and streamlining your volunteer program.

1. The 12 Basic Needs of Every Volunteer

 

 

 

 

Volunteers and volunteer leaders are most likely to succeed and to stay on target if 12 basic needs are met. Use this checklist to determine whether your organization’s volunteers are fully equipped for their work.

 

 

 

 

2.  Promising Practices for Volunteer Management

 

 

 

 

Encourage and aid your volunteer team to succeed at their given tasks by adopting these 12 sound volunteer management practices.

 

 

 

 

Project Implementation Tools

This section includes informative articles related to volunteer management, and downloadable forms for distribution to your volunteers.

• Questions to Determine Problem Behavior 

 

 

 

 

Volunteer managers can use this list of nonconfrontational questions to help deescalate conflict between volunteers.

 

 

 

 

• Three Steps to Correcting Actions of Problem Volunteers 

 

 

 

 

This helpful article suggests a simple three-step approach to redirecting problem behaviors in volunteers.

 

 

 

 

• Sample Volunteer Application/Questionnaire 

 

 

 

 

Nonprofit volunteer managers can use this simple questionnaire as a preliminary application for prospective volunteers.

 

 

 

 

• Sample Job Description Worksheet 

 

 

 

 

This tool will help volunteer managers work through and finalize the details of an individualized volunteer job description, including tasks, responsibilities, qualifications, goals, training and volunteer benefits.

 

 

 

 

Project Evaluation Tools

Download these printable resources for use in your volunteer management practices.

1. Volunteer Feedback Form 

 

 

 

 

How well are your volunteers equipped to carry out their assigned tasks? Distribute this form to your volunteers to gather their task-related feedback, which will help you to enhance and strengthen your ministry’s volunteer effectiveness.

 

 

 

 

Additional Resources

Need more help managing your volunteer program? These recommended resources will help you find the information you’re looking for.

Print resources

• Handling Problem Volunteers, by Steve McCurley and Sue Vineyard
• How to Mobilize Church Volunteers, by Marlene Wilson
• The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book, by Susan J. Ellis
• Volunteers, How to Get Them, How to Keep Them: An Essential Guide for Volunteer Leaders and Staff of Professional, Trade and Charitable Organizations, by Helen Little

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