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Get Connected presents: Innovative Approaches to Volunteer Leadership Webinar Series

Volunteer Engagement: How Volunteer Organizations Can Thrive in a World Changed by the Pandemic


3-Part Training Series with Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement (MAVA)

Trainings led by Polly Roach, MAVA Program Director

3-Sep-24-2024-04-18-04-9402-PM

WATCH THE RECORDING NOW | Training 1
Evaluate Your Volunteer Roles: Take a Fresh Look + Revise Your Strategy

WATCH THE RECORDING NOW | Training 2
Assess Your Processes: How to Make Things Easier!

WATCH THE RECORDING NOW | Training 3
Refresh Recruitment: Move from Passive to Active

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Evaluate Your Volunteer Roles:
Take a Fresh Look + Revise Your Strategy

When was the last time you evaluated your volunteer role descriptions?
Are there certain volunteer roles you struggle to fill?
Do you have a formal request process for specific volunteer opportunities?
And most importantly, how do you continue to adapt your roles to recruit + retain the volunteers of today?

In this workshop, participants will have a chance to review a variety of volunteer descriptions, survey their own with a new lens, and identify what’s missing to make impactful adjustments. You will leave this workshop with methods to evaluate and refine your volunteer roles now and in the future.

 

 

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Assess Your Processes:
How to Make Things Easier!

People want to give their time in meaningful ways! But, sometimes our processes are the barriers to that connection.

Together, we will discuss:

  1. What’s the average time between a volunteer inquiry and that volunteer’s first shift?

  2. How often are prospective volunteers confused about the necessary steps to get started?

  3. Are your onboarding processes helping you bring in qualified volunteers, or hindering you?

Often we can’t remove these steps. But what can we do to streamline, simplify, or lay out the path more clearly for prospective volunteers so they don’t get frustrated and give up before they even get started?

 In this session, we'll work to mitigate tedious steps to make volunteering more accessible.

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Refresh Recruitment:
Move from Passive to Active

Take a fresh approach to volunteer recruitment!

We’ll explore:

  • Reaching out to different community groups
  • Building relationships and fostering partnerships
  • Looking closely at the words you are using to recruit volunteers

The key to engaging the next generation of volunteers is reaching out and inviting people who might not self-identify as volunteers!

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This training series qualifies for 3 hours toward your CVA credential.
Download your Certificate of Attendance here

 

Polly Roach, Program Director, Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement (MAVA)

Polly supports Minnesota’s Service Enterprise Initiative, a holistic change management approach helping organizations increase their return on volunteer engagement and better achieve their social mission.

Polly has worked in the field of volunteer engagement for over 30 years. Before joining the MAVA staff in 2018, she served on MAVA’s Board of Directors, where she chaired the Strategic Directions Committee and was involved in shaping MAVA initiatives such as its Shifting Environment trends research. 

Learn more about the Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement (MAVA) at www.mavanetwork.org

Join in on the Volunteer Leadership conversation - we look forward to seeing you there!

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Meet the Speaker -

Polly Roach received MAVA’s Mary Wiser Award for Leadership in the Field of Volunteer Resources in 2011. Previously, Polly worked at MENTOR Minnesota as the Senior Director of Program Services, delivering resources, training and technical assistance to youth mentoring programs; she also directed a one-to-one mentoring program for girls at the YWCA of St. Paul for 16 years. Polly holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Minnesota.

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The Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement (MAVA)

MAVA advances the power of volunteerism to deepen community impact through uplifting community voice, building connections, providing education, and promoting advocacy

MAVA envisions a world where everyone has an equitable opportunity to make a positive impact in their communities through volunteerism.

As a leader both statewide and globally in addressing urgent community needs, MAVA focuses on effective and equitable volunteer engagement. The organization has integrated equity into its internal structures and collaborates with other entities to dismantle structural racism within volunteer systems.

MAVA empowers organizations and volunteer engagement professionals to achieve their mission potential through a range of services and programs.

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