Learn how to integrate efficient online service opportunities into nonprofit organizations.
Many organizations have lost the ability to involve volunteers during this new virtual world we are living in, but you can learn to use this new reality to improve your volunteer involvement. You will learn some new ways you can involve volunteers and how you can find them, recruit them, and train them virtually. You will also learn how to keep these volunteers involved in your organization in the future, either virtually or in-person. Take advantage of the new reality of virtual business to make sure your nonprofit survives and thrives in this new world.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to define the roles volunteers can play in your nonprofit.
- You will be able to describe virtual volunteer recruitment, training, and supporting activities.
- You will be able to identify potential volunteers.
- You will be able to recognize the importance of volunteer job descriptions.
Agenda
What Types of Volunteers Do You/Can You Use for Your Nonprofit?
- Program Volunteers
- Administrative Volunteers
- Fundraising Volunteers
Involving Virtual Program Volunteers
- What Programs Can You Do Virtually?
- Recruiting and Orienting Program Volunteers for Virtual Tasks
- Supporting Volunteers Virtually
Involving Virtual Administrative Volunteers
- Some Volunteer Roles You Might Not Have Thought of
- Recruiting and Orienting Administrative Volunteers Virtually
- Supporting Administrative Volunteers Virtually
Involving Fundraising Volunteers
- Ways You Probably Never Used Volunteers Before
- Finding and Recruiting Fundraising Volunteers
- Training and Supporting Fundraising Volunteers
Wrap Up
- What Have You Learned That Will Help You Go Forward?
- How Can You Keep These Volunteers Involved In-Person or Virtually in the Future?
- Questions?
Speakers
Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE,
Linda Lysakowski, LLC- One of just over 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation
- During her thirty years in the development field, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and has trained more than 40,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, Bermuda, and most of the fifty states of the United States
- Prolific writer, with more than two dozen books published for the nonprofit sector and six in the fiction and travel arena
- Developed and manages 14 online courses for the nonprofit sector
- Received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive award from the Eastern PA, Las Vegas, and Sierra (NV) chapters of AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals), was recognized internationally with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP, and will be honored in November with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Las Vegas Chapter of AFP
- Has written numerous books including The Development Plan; Charity Channel’s Quick Guide to Creating a Development Plan, Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?; Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know; Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? workbook; Raise More Money from Your Business Community; Raise More Money from Your Business Community - The Workbook; The New Donor (co-author); Fundraising for the GENIUS, 2nd edition; The Fundraising Feasibility Study (contributing author); YOU and Your Nonprofit Board (contributing author); The Leaky Bucket: What’s Wrong With Your Fundraising: And How You Can Fix It (co-author); The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook (co-author); YOU and Your Nonprofit (co-editor); The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook (co-editor); Nonprofit Strategic Planning (co-author); Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers; and in addition to her full-length books, she has written three AFP Ready reference books and has been published in numerous other publications including International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Contributions, Advancing Philanthropy, Associations Now, CASE Currents, Major Gifts Report, Grant Station, New Directions in Philanthropy, and more
- Selected training and public speaking includes AFP International Conference; AFP Hemispheric Conference; dozens of regional and local AFP chapters throughout North America; various statewide associations including PANO, OANO, UNA; nonprofit management centers in TN, OK, TX; numerous national and international association conferences including Variety International, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Junior Achievement, U.S. Tennis Association, Points of Light Foundation, The Centre on Philanthropy, Bermuda, and the United States Olympic Committee; a variety of educational conferences sponsored by CASE, AHP, ALDE, CMA, AACSB, GPA, and others
- Graduate, with majors in banking and finance, theology/philosophy from Alvernia College in Reading, PA; graduate of AFP’s Faculty Training Academy and has received two AFP research grants
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for accountants, CPAs, executive directors, presidents, vice presidents, accounting managers, officers, controllers, CFOs, tax managers, board members, business owners, and managers.
