Instructor: Susan Ellis President, Energize Inc.   Date/Time: PRE-RECORDED Length: 90 min Price: $99.00 Producer: SNPO Powered by:
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When financial crisis strikes, organizations must be strategic and creative in stretching their budgets. Where does volunteer involvement fit? Are you positioned to expand your volunteer corps or do you still need to lay the foundation for welcoming community participation? Can/should volunteers fill gaps left if you must layoff staff?

In this webinar, we’ll consider:

• Why responding to a crisis may be too late to mobilize more volunteers – but what your options are if you’re playing catch-up.
• Realistic expectations for volunteer contributions.
• Determining what you need and finding the right volunteers who can really help.
• The wrong way to try to fill staff vacancies with volunteers.
• The right way to engage volunteers in stretching your budget.
• If volunteers are not free, what do they cost?
• Planning for when more money comes in.

 
Learning Objectives:

At the end of this webinar, nonprofit agency decision-makers will be able to:

1. Articulate whether and how volunteers can be a vital resource when budgets are cut.

2. List specific do’s and don’ts for engaging volunteers if staff positions must be eliminated.

3. Plan strategically to engage volunteers realistically and effectively, whether revenues decrease or increase.

 
Class Format:

This course is the recording of a live webinar that took place on December 2, 2009, and contains the slides and full audio from the original presentation (including Q & A sessions). Only a reasonably current version of FlashPlayer is needed to run this recording (most computers already have this installed).

 
About the Instructor, Susan Ellis