AFP GA, Greater Atlanta Chapter: August 24, 2018 - CFRE Study Session 4

Volunteer Involvement 

• Identify organizational readiness and opportunities to engage volunteers.
• Create structured processes for the identification, recruitment, orientation, training, evaluation, recognition, retention and succession of volunteers.
• Develop specific role descriptions and terms of commitment to empower and support volunteers and enhance their effectiveness.
• Engage various types of volunteers (for example , board, programme, campaign) in the fundraising process to increase organizational capacity.
• Participate in recruiting experienced and diverse leadership on boards and/or committees to ensure these groups are representative of, and responsive to, the communities served.

Key Knowledge Areas for the Above Tasks

• Personality types and attributes
• Volunteer roles in fundraising
• Components and uses of volunteer role descriptions and term commitments
• Skills training and competency development methods
• Strategies for optimizing volunteers’ time and talent
• Volunteer recruitment, orientation, training, management, motivation, retention, recognition, and evaluation techniques
• Governance principles and models for not-for-profit organizations
• Value of diversity and community representation
• Respective roles of volunteer board members and staff with respect to governance and management
• Trends and preferences in volunteering
• Organization’s structure, functions, and culture