Focus: Leveraging Volunteers

• Allaying typical concerns of first-time volunteers
• Assessing community needs before planning a service project
• Assessing potential partnerships with community-based organizations
• Assessing your organization's potential for partnerships
• Considering the types of volunteers available to your program
• Contacting potential partners
• Creating budgets for volunteer projects
• Deciding on the "right" volunteer project for your program
• Deepening the connection between service activities and civic involvement 
• Developing position descriptions for volunteers 
• Ensuring safety during service projects
• Establishing campus connections for engaging college students as volunteer leaders
• Finalizing your service day project plan
• Keeping volunteers motivated by maintaining positive communication
• Mapping your volunteer project
• Moving from reflection to action with a volunteer plan
• Planning the logistics of a volunteer service project
• Recruiting college students as volunteer leaders
• Supporting student volunteers in building leadership skills
• Thinking through the details of a service project: a checklist
• Understanding and facilitating group process when engaging student volunteer leaders
• Using a project calendar to assist with recruiting and scheduling volunteers
• Using viral marketing to recruit student volunteer leaders

Additional effective practices related to leveraging volunteers.