Building an Outstanding Volunteer Program: A Three-Session Certificate Program

This program offers a series of lecturettes, interactive engagements, and individual assignments to help you learn the essential components of creating an outstanding volunteer-development program. Through this course, you will:

• Understand the value of volunteers to your organization, and the value of your organization to volunteers
• Learn the essential ingredients of a successful volunteer-resource program
• Explore the creation of an organizational climate that promotes volunteerism
• Identify important trends in volunteerism
• Acquire new strategies for program implementation
• Discuss measures of success
• Address your burning issues in a safe and supportive environment

In addition, assignments between sessions will help you either create the foundation for building a new volunteer-development program or look in depth at a specific area in need of improvement in an existing volunteer-development program. Participants who attend all three sessions will receive a Wiener Educational Center certificate of completion.

This program is sponsored in cooperation with UJA-Federation of New York’s Volunteer Leadership and Development Department.

This workshop is limited to 18 participants. Register now to secure your spot.

Dates: Three Wednesdays: November 12, December 3, and December 17, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. A light breakfast will be served from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m., and the program begins promptly at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will also be served.
Cost: $200
Location: UJA-Federation of New York, 130 East 59th Street (between Park and Lexington avenues), New York City

Instructor
Maria H. Casey is president of the New York Association for Volunteer Administration and director of volunteer resources at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York, with a volunteer program involving more than 700 volunteers in all areas of operation. Maria has created and implemented the Make-A-Wish chapter’s fundraising, speakers bureau, continuing education, “train the trainer,” and mentor-training programs. She has conducted seminars for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Idealist’s Nonprofit Human Resources Conference, and Association of Fundraising Professionals' Philanthropy Day.