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RESOURCES FOR THE VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
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Edited by Carol Weisman
Save 20%. A "Boards 101" book for trustees new to boards, for leaders of all volunteer associations, or for anyone starting a nonprofit from the ground up. Well-known authorities on nonprofit management present the basics with warmth, humor, and the joy of service. Includes a chapter by Susan J. Ellis entitled, "People Raising: A New Perspective on Volunteer Resources," along with chapters on recruiting board members, fundraising, strategic planning, running meetings, legal issues, technology, and the business of boards. Enjoy the cartoon illustrations too! Regular price, $24.95 |
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Save 20%! Susan Ellis has literally crammed this book with every suggestion and recommendation on the subject of recruitment developed over her 20+ years in the volunteer management field. She first shows how to design the best assignments for volunteers as the initial step to recruit the most qualified people. What follows is a wealth of information on topics ranging from how your organization's image affects your success in recruitment to where to look for new volunteers, including your own backyard. Thie book also offers a whole chapter on membership development for all-voilunteer organizations, including how to get current members "off the rolls and on their feet." Regular price, $18.95. |
Save 20%! A bestseller, because as Suze Orman says on the cover, "Leadership that's based on service will always succeed." The testimonials tell it all! Organizations boast they've increased their volunteers 500% using this book. A church in New York City went from 80 members to 300. An American Heart Association Executive Director uses it for fundraising because it helps her relate to audiences more effectively. If you need volunteers, members or donors, this book will make it easy to attract AND keep a lot of people to help you.
A popular keynote speaker, Shar McBee has travelled all around the world and worked with organizations in a dozen countries. In her books she shares her quest for deeper meaning and the discovery of what makes great individuals great: They live a life of service.
Regular price, $14.95. |
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By Dr. Bill Wittich
Save 20%! Filled with lots of suggestions for recruiting your new volunteers. 77 Ways helps you to create a variety of niche marketing techniques to find today's potential volunteers. These volunteers are different from yesterday's traditional volunteers in that they are willing to admit that they are looking for a benefit from their volunteer activity. This 96 page book will help you locate these best practices and show you how to apply them to your volunteer setting. Regular price, $15.00 |
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By Jeanne H. Bradner
Save 20%! A pocket-size book of wisdom and encouragement by one of the nation's leaders on volunteerism. Written with succinct and concrete examples, Bradner expresses how volunteers, government and nonprofits can become a more powerful force. A nice gift item. Regular price, $3.95. |
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Save 20%! 87 of the most emotional and compelling stories about the illuminating power of volunteer service. Stories inspire, encourage, empower and humble readers into reconnecting with their communities by volunteering, helping others. Truly a celebration of the "hero within" every volunteer. Regular price, $14.95. |
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ON BACK ORDER. Another book from Shar McBee. Do you think of yourself as a leader? Why not? WARNING: You could have fun following this leadership formula. You'll enjoy going to work! How to be remembered as a good leader. How not to be the big, bad boss. How to attract respect. How to avoid arrogance. How to get people to cooperate. This book is hardback with a jacket. Price includes a downloadable video & manual. * You get a FREE Training Manual with this book to help you apply it to your specific situation. * You get a FREE Training Video telling how President Carter, the astronauts and others used this method successfully.
* The video and the manual are downloadable to a PC.
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By Dr. Bill Wittich, EdD.
Save 20%! This book will give you a dozen easy tips to excite, inspire, and retain your most valuable asset...volunteers. This soon to be published book will illustrate techniques for connecting with your volunteers, giving fast feedback, and demanding excellence from them. Topics will include the keys to empowerment, hiring the best volunteers, and having fun. It covers very specific and simple ideas to grow leaders and develop a team among your volunteers. 160+ pages of suggestions and guidelines to improve your volunteer program. Regular price, $20.00. |
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By Gary Stern/Wilder Publishing Center
Save 20%! Maximize your results using the most persuasive tool of all! Whether your goal is fundraising, volunteer recruitment or selling tickets, the most persuasive marketing tool is still personal contact. In this unique guide, you'll discover how to put personal contact to use organization wide by mobilizing your entire staff, volunteers and supporters in a focused one-to-one marketing or fundraising campaign. In this guide you'll find: complete guidance through the 10-step process; a simple and effective formula for targeting the best prospects; detailed instructions and agendas for motivational trainings; 25 tips for marketing representatives to boost their effectiveness; detailed worksheets to keep your campaign on track. Its been hailed as the "A step-by-step solution to the universal complaint, " We don't have enough people!" and "...a 'you can do it' guide". Regular price, $28.00 |
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By Susan J. Ellis
Save 20%! The first and only book that addresses the top decision-maker's role in a volunteer program. It clearly illuminates the issues necessary to faciliate volunteer program success, including developing a vision for volunteer involvement, addressing questions of policy, budgeting funds and other resources, staffing the volunteer program, assessing the impact of volunteer contributions, and dealing with legal, risk management, and insurance issues. Also explains the revised FASB regulations on accounting practices regarding donated time. Regular price, $24.95. |
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By Jeanne H. Bradner
Save 20%! A wonderful resource for both the new and experienced volunteer program manager. Bradner, an experienced and thoughtful community leader, shows how volunteer managers can succeed with mission-driven leadership skills and inspire volunteers and staff for measurable results. Easy to grasp, and extremely readable. Excellent examples, charts, tables, graphs, and forms. Regular price, $11.95. |
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By Sue Vineyard
Save 20%! Learn why today's volunteers require new direction. This teaching workbook by one of the top visionaries and leaders in volunteer and community service, examines the essential competencies and strategies for the successful volunteer program administrator. Chapters include:
Working with Staff; Leadershift; Thinking Entrepreneurially; Inspiring Creativity; Broadening your Resource Base; Creative Recognition; Reinventing the Organization; The Art of Conflict Resolution and Negotiation; Dealing with Problematic Volunteers: and the Healthy Climate. Regular price, $18.95.
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By LesLee Burnett, Sophie Horiuchi, John Lipp & Kelle Remmel
Save 20%! The needs and challenges of the municipal volunteer program manager are unique. This manual addresses these issues and outlines ten essential steps in developing and enhancing strong municipal volunteer programs. Also includes special topics such as Building Sustainability, Marketing, Youth, Court-Mandated and Transitional Volunteers, Organized Labor Issues, and Working with Elected Officials. Important volunteer management resources and sample tools from successful municipal programs. Regular price, $25.00 |
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By Dr. Bill Wittich
Save 20%! Everyone wants to know that they are being appreciated for their efforts, and one of the most important ways to retain those wonderful volunteers is great recognition. Volunteer recognition, done right, is magic and this little book is the perfect jumpstart to get you thinking about new ways to recognize your volunteers. Many of these suggestions are things that you can do and some are there to make you think. This 96 page publication contains 77 suggestions for showing your volunteers that they are appreciated. Regular price, $15.00. |
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By Dr. Bill Wittich Save 20%! The Care & Feeding of Volunteers has evolved from a series of successful seminars and on-site trainings conducted in over 100 locations across the United States and Europe. In this book, Bill presents unorthodox ways of working with volunteers, attempting to change the paradigm of how America thinks about managing volunteers. In The Care & Feeding of Volunteers, Bill challenges you to consider applying many of the leadership strategies that are working in corporate America to your non-profit place. This publication suggests, in an out-of-the box way, that we should not be recruiting volunteers in a 1970 fashion. It's a new millennium and tomorrow's volunteers will not respond to yesterday's management thinking, but will be looking for an agency that respects their energy, passion and talents. Regular price, $20.00. "An important book about important people!" Richard Carlson, Ph.D., author of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" "Anyone who manages a volunteer organization will benefit from reading this book" Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of "The Platinum Rule"and "Charisma"
"Bill Wittich has written a wonderful account of the power of volunteerism and the impact that it can have on the lives of others. This book is packed with useful ideas and insight. Read it, apply it and most importantly, live it!"
Willie Jolly, Author of "It Only Takes A Minute To Change Your Life" and "A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback" |
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SAVE 20%! Beyond Police Checks is a comprehensive "how-to" manual on screening paid and unpaid staff in positions of trust. This definitive resource helps employers understand screening responsibilities and provides specific details on how to carefully choose screening methods matched to the requirements of any given position - paid, stipended, or volunteer. Full of practical tips, helpful cautions, and fully reproducible forms and checklists, this comprehensive guidebook will lead you step-by-step to increased screening effectiveness and program safety. Learn about more than 14 different screening devices, including interviews, reference checks, qualifications checks, police records checks, drivers' records checks, credit bureau checks, performance assessment, medical testing, and home visits. Don't wake up one morning to a tragedy and find yourself wishing you had paid more attention to the escalating liabilities and higher standards of employee and volunteer screening. Regular price, $25.00. |
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By Barbara Lewis Save 20%! Back by demand! Full of ideas of service projects that kids can do on their own to large-scale community wide commitments. From animals to crime prevention, politics to safety issues, literacy to environmental issues, this book can be a sanity-saver, helping those young people who are often too young for agencies, find a way to serve and make a difference. A great resource for parents and teachers of service-learning. A special section gives step by step instructions for creating fliers, petitions, press releases, and more. Projects are appropriate for kids 10 years old and up. Regular price, $12.95.
"Indispensable for students and teachers. The quality and breadth of service ideas are remarkable." |
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Save 20%! This award winnning book (Parenting magazine, American Library Association, etc.) is an exciting, empowering resource for youth ages 10 and up. Real stories about real kids let readers know that they aren't too young to solve problems in their neighborhood, community, and nation. Step by step instructions show kids how to write letters, do interviews, make speeches, take surveys, raise funds, get media coverage and prepare news releases. Reproducible forms make it easy to circulate petitions, initiate proclamations, etc. Resources point the way toward government offices, groups, organizations, websites, books, etc. Designed for kids to use on their own, this is an ideal resource for schools, youth organizations, parents. Regular price, $28.95. |
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