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This super tool kit contains five vital resources to strengthen your volunteer engagement program:
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Knowledge philanthropists seek an engagement with your organization, because they are motivated to contribute to community. It is important at the beginning to have each knowledge philanthropist articulate what attracted them to this role in your organization. Why do they want to contribute their skills? What is in it for them? What is the “payment” they are seeking from the experience? A great engagement experience is one where the knowledge philanthropist is paid with meaning.
This resource includes a template for the Window of Work with instructions on how to use it. This simple yet powerful tool can provide salaried employees with information about each knowledge philanthropist, what motivates them and what they want to learn. From this information, salaried employees can develop a perfect role that is win-win for the knowledge philanthropist AND the organization.
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This resource tool looks at the benefits of the lifecycles approach and defines Susan Kenny Steven's seven lifecycles stages: idea, start up, growth, maturity, decline, turnaround, termination.
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Imagine someone walked through the doors of your organization today, unsolicited, and was interested in getting involved with your cause. Do you have a process in place to determine if and where there is a fit for their passion and skillset?
This resource outlines Vantage Point’s 8-step process to responsive volunteer engagement.
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Traditional envelope-stuffing, database entry-type volunteers are harder and harder to find. Younger generations of volunteers are more interested in the payback of their volunteer roles than simply the altruistic philosophy of volunteering. Vantage Point, determined to study the changing paradigm of volunteerism, sought examples of not-for-profit organizations engaging specifically skilled volunteers to better understand how this method of volunteer engagement can be successful. The results were clear: when organizations engage specifically skilled volunteers, the outcome can be phenomenal.
This report shares the key learnings below, in the hopes that other organizations looking at the benefits of specifically skilled volunteering can also learn from this study.
1. Clearly define the roles for all participants;
2. Ensure the project is a priority for all participants, including the organization;
3. Gain buy-in from the entire organization, preferably starting from the top down;
4. Emphasize the competitive advantage of accessing more than their own skill set; and
5. Emphasize the business-related learning possible from volunteering.
