volunteer asset in the uncertain economy
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Denver DOVIA – Advanced
Practitioners Symposium
May 27, 2009
The Volunteer Asset in an
Uncertain Economy
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Challenging
Times
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The Economy
Impact on Nonprofits
Trends
and
Issues
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Trends
and
Issues
The Ugly
The Bad
The Good
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Headlines Tell the Story
Bay Area Nonprofits Brace for 2010 Armageddon
Minnesota Nonprofits Slash Staff and Budgets
Charities Scramble as Donations Fall
New Poor Overwhelm Nonprofits
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The Bad – But Not Worse – News
Foundation Giving
Corporate Philanthropy
Individual Gifts
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There is Good News
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Giving
Back
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Retirement Postponed
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Disconnect
in the
Staff-Driven
Model
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The
Obama
Factor
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Serve America Act
The Serve America
Act is about
“connecting deeds
to needs.”
President Barack Obama
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Expand Corporation for National and Community Service
Engage Retiring Americans in Service on a Large Scale
Expand the Peace Corps
Expand Service Learning in High Schools and Colleges
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―A social revolution –
possibly as important
as the one led by
Boomers in the 1960s –
will occur if nonprofits
strategically engage
Boomers in high-
impact collaborations
that build a nonprofit’s
capacity to fulfill its
vision and mission…
Boomers will lead the
way to a new era.‖
— Page 18 Chapter 1 Understanding the World
of Boomers
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Trends
and
Issues
Time Collaboration Technology
Generational Shift
ResultsFocused
Culture Shift
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Everyone
is bowling
alone
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Boomers
and the
generations
that followSource: Business’s Social Contract: Capturing the Corporate
Philanthropy Opportunity, Committee Encouraging Corporate
Philanthropy, based on research by McKinsey & Company
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―It takes more than a few
new strategies and
examples to engage
Boomers as volunteers. It
takes reimagining the role
of volunteers in an
organization and the
possible results of involving
volunteers in every aspect
of operations.‖
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Boomers
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Imagine a world in which your
nonprofit organization has all the
resources it needs to:
Serve more clients
Deliver more
programs
Strengthen its staff
Spread your message
more widely
Increase financial stability
— Page 9 Chapter 1 Understanding the World of Boomers
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Capacity building
Strategic and critical
Collaborative
Skills based and impactful
Community building and abundance
Foundation
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Boomer Savvy
Organizations
Mandate from the top;
cultivate from within
Authentic volunteer leadership
Career paths for volunteer talent
Culture of innovation and flexibility
Embrace collaboration as a way of
doing business
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Don’t do it.
Get it done.
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Changing the
Volunteer
Management
Paradigm
Volunteer
Management
Volunteer
Engagement
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A New Pardigm
Recruitment Cultivation and Networking
Placement Negotiation and Agreement
Supervision Support
Management Engagement
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A New Pardigm
Review Measurement
Recognition Acknowledgment
Retention Sustainability
Management Engagement
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Transitions
• Recognize, honor, and be done with the past
• Sadness, grieving, feeling overwhelmed, and fearLetting Go
• Experiment and innovate
• Chaotic, exciting, uncomfortable, nerve-wrackingNeutral
• Group recognizes what worked and what didn’t
• Group commits to implementation plansAssessment
• Change happens!Change
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The Tipping Point
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Mavens Connectors Salespeople
Stickiness Factor
Context Matters
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21st Century
Strategies
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Capacity BuildingCommunity
Building
Asset-based Community
Development (ABCD)
Social Entrepreneurship
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Leadership
•Motivating teams
•Executing the right things
•Focusing on organizational vision
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Entrepreneurship
•Envisioning possibilities
•Founding initiatives
•Changing norms
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Capacity Builders
Mission Programs Management
GovernanceFinancial
ResourcesAdministrative
Resources
Volunteers
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Hallmarks of Performance
Organizational Effectiveness
Financial Stability
Program Quality and
Growth
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Steps to Volunteer
Engagement
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Capacity Building
• Understanding Boomers
• Assessment
• Building the case
Using Critical Intervention Points
• Mapping the initiative
• Creating opportunities
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Steps to Volunteer
Engagement
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Designing Powerful
Engagement
• Cultivation and networking
• Interviewing and vetting
Agreement and Support
• Creating the collaboration
• Nurturing the relationship
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New Staff Roles
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Communication
•Articulate engagement
•Facilitate agreements
•Negotiate outcomes
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Actions
• Create inviting work environments
• Prioritize volunteer efforts
• Vet for skills and interests
• Convene and launch teams
• Collaborate for results
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Results
•Cultivate volunteer leaders
•Build individual capacity
• Increase human and financial resources
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Circles
of
Influence
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Community of Action
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Community of Action
Definition: A collaborative group whose members
align around a shared purpose, and who take action
toward specific goals through broad participation
and mutual accountability.
The opportunity in a Community of Action is
to enlist volunteers and stakeholders
as co-producers and co-creators. Adapted from Terms of Engagement by Richard Axelrod
A Community of Action is a vehicle to help volunteers move
toward achieving strategic goals.
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Self Directed Teams
Identify scope
Develop and lead the team
Generate solutions
Build capacity
Evaluate results
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Characteristics of Self-Directed Teams
Shared Workload
Collaborative Governance
Community Identity
Alignment Evaluation
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Sustaining Self-Directed Teams
Communication Training Resources
EvaluationQuality
Improvement
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The future is not some place we are going to, but
one we are creating. The paths are not to be
found, but made, and the activity of making them
changes both the maker and the destination. John Schaar
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Thank You!
Volunteerism is the voice of the people
put into action. These actions shape and
mold the present into a future of which we
can all be proud. --Helen Dyer