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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Volunteer Management"”.
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Assessing Changes in Virginia Master Gardener Volunteer Management
Master Gardener (MG) volunteers are nonpaid, education partners with Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE). VCE MGs have assisted Extension agents in meeting VCE's educational goals and mission by following the Sustainable Landscape Management educational program objectives within the VCE Plan of …
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Sport for development and peace volunteers' motivations and volunteer management strategies: the case of South Korea and Argentina
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Effective Insiders in the Voluntary Service Sector; Developing a Framework and Process for Service Organisations Engaging Volunteers
The volunteering sector has grown significantly in past decades and has become a prominent contributor to the workforce. A combination of drivers has created a growth in demand for volunteers and supply has not kept pace. In this environment, organisations that depend on a volunteer workforce need …
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Good practices of alumni relations professionals leading engagement programs and volunteers in colleges of agriculture at land-grant institutions
… sufficient qualifications to manage an alumni volunteer program successfully. Managing the people and activities involved with the programs in the ever-growing field of alumni relations requires much more than event planning know-how. Implementing impactful alumni engagement programs requires …
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Making Community Gardens Thrive: A Systematic Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Community Gardens in Greater Victoria
… range of challenges, including land access, volunteer management, resources, and funding. By adopting the framework of agency and social capital, my research examines how community garden organizers in Greater Victoria overcome these challenges in establishing and sustaining community …
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Capacity and transformational development within the 2005 Canada Summer Games host society
… capacity was examined within the case of the Volunteers Division of the 2005 Canada Summer Games (CSG) Host Society. Data were collected from executive planning and middle management CSG volunteers through the use of a variety of methods: verbal journals, interviews, observations, documents …
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Management for Program Sustainability Amidst Rapid Volunteer Turnover
… turnover in nonprofit organizations that offer volunteer-led programs and are consequently heavily reliant upon those individuals to carry out their missions. Creating a strong institutional memory for both tacit and explicit knowledge and properly managing volunteers are two critical elements …
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The Recognition Preferences of Ontario County 4-H Volunteers
<p>The 4-H program relies on volunteers to deliver quality youth programing to the local community. Therefore, volunteer management is an important job of a 4-H educator. The Ontario County 4-H program utilizes 94 volunteers who serve a variety of roles within the program, and the retention of …
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Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums
… Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums Nicole Lillian Ohlandt Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Wilson O'Donnell Museology Graduate Program →This thesis will seek to determine why museums and similar institutions in the Seattle, Washington …
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Identifying effective strategies for developing leadership and management skills in volunteer volunteer managers
… thesis investigates how organisations support volunteers to develop the skills of those volunteers who lead and/or manage other volunteers, or volunteer volunteer managers (VVMs). There is little research into volunteer management/leadership (Posner, 2015) and most research is based on the …
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‘Return on[boarding] investment’: Exploring volunteer onboarding experiences on newcomer behaviours and implications for volunteer board performance
… of the onboarding experiences (OE) of newcomer volunteers in a volunteer leadership context is lacking in current volunteer management and governance research. Through a lens of socialization and self-efficacy principles, this study aims to address whether OE can be an interceding influence for …
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Quantitative Decision Models for Humanitarian Logistics
… these organizations rely heavily on the use of volunteers to carry out their social mission, it is important that they manage their volunteer workforce efficiently. In this study, we demonstrate not only how the proposed model helps to reduce the number of unfilled shifts and to decrease total …
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Neighbourhood disaster planning
… disaster plans will need to concentrate on volunteer management issues; how to motivate individuals to get involved in emergency planning and preparedness, how to keep them involved, and what planning processes techniques are more effective to use at the community/neighbourhood level. It is …
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Answering the call : an exploration into factors affecting the motivation of volunteers involved in a telephone counselling organisation
… factors which affect the motivation of volunteer telephone counsellors, including demographic variables as well as volunteers' subjective perceptions of the factors which have influenced their involvement. The study was conducted in two stages. The first consisted of a demographic …
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Freiwilligenmanagement als Instrument zur Förderung Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements in Nonprofit-Organisationen
… Engagements auf Praktiken des Freiwilligenmanagements trifft. Ausgangspunkt dieser Fragestellung ist eine doppelte Diagnose: Zum einen setzen NPOs aufgrund mehrerer Faktoren - u.a. Ressourcenknappheit, Wettbewerb und Nachahmungseffekten – vermehrt auf Freiwilligenmanagement. Mit dieser von …