Volunteer Leadership

Catalog description

Volunteers are increasingly important in the United States. Not only do financially strapped organizations use volunteers to enhance their capacity, but policy-makers and community leaders see volunteering as a vehicle to improve communities and solve public problems. This course covers topics of volunteer administration -planning, marketing, recruitment, screening and selection, training, supervision, evaluation and recognition. Students will gain an understanding of how the demographic of today's volunteers is changing, how best to deploy the talents of multi-generational volunteers, and understand how to provide a structured objective framework to be accomplished by the volunteer corps. Legal issues surrounding the use of volunteers and designing effective volunteer policies are also discussed.