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Get Involved: Powered By Your Library, A California State Library Initiative for 2008-2009
Engaging Volunteers inOrganizational Capacity Building
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Steps to Volunteer Engagement
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• 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
Project Overview
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Learning Objectives
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Trends and Issues
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Trends and Issues
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Technology
Expand Communication
Increase Diversity
Create Training Opportunities
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Additional Trends
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Philosophical Foundation
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Philosophical Foundation (cont.)
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Capacity Building
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Capacity Builders
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Changing Staff Roles
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Volunteer Engagement
Readiness Assessment
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Volunteer Engagement
Readiness Assessment
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A New Paradigm
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A New Paradigm
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Needs Assessment
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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)
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Focus on Strategy
Translate the strategic plan
Facilitate volunteer leadership
Ensure participation
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Critical Intervention Points
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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?
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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
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• 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?
Critical Intervention Point Questions
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• 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?
Critical Intervention Point Questions
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Process Summary
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Process Summary (cont.)
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Creating the Case
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For Next Time
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Boomer Volunteer Engagement
Downloadable PDFs
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Creating Capacity
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Learning Objectives
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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 Sandie Eichberg, with Gail Lorenz CVA
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