Retention

The Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration (MAVA) has once again produced a valuable resource for all of us in the volunteer field: a Toolkit for Recruiting and Supporting Job-Seeking Volunteers.

As described by Mary Quirk, MAVA’s Volunteer Resources Leadership Project Manager:

MAVA was fortunate to [obtain funding from the Initiative Foundation] to do a project on the interrelationship between volunteering and gaining workforce skills. With all the encouragement that job seekers are given to volunteer we realized that there were few resources for organizations on how to make the most of job seekers as volunteers and how to best support them. We put together an advisory taskforce composed of both representative from workforce preparation organizations (workforce centers, tech schools, etc.) and leaders of volunteers, did focus groups and surveys and developed a toolkit and training curriculum.

The Toolkit – offered free of charge in online form – is packed full of ideas