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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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