Training Materials
Learn more about best practices in volunteer recruitment and engagement, and how to get the results you need.
NOTE: These are examples from public libraries and should be reviewed and modified to ensure fit with local policies and culture.
Title | Keyword | Tags | Year |
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Recruiting Local Volunteers to Increase Diversity Among the Ranks
This blog post by Jayne Cravens provides some ideas for expanding diversity among your volunteers. Includes a number of links to related topics as… more |
Staff Training | diversity, equity, inclusion, Recruitment | 2022 |
Recruit Volunteers Online: Find Your Next 20 COVID Superheroes with Smarter Strategy
The author describes three essential strategies needed to build a presence online that can recruit the ideal volunteers you need, those that are… more |
On-line Volunteer Recruitment | Recruitment, online recruitment | 2021 |
Recognizing Racism in Volunteer Engagement - MAVA
Important food for thought from the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration |
Staff Training, Capacity Building | inclusive, racism, Recruitment, diversity | 2020 |
Racial Equity and Inclusion Resources for Volunteer Engagement Leaders
This is a terrific list of links to articles, books, research, podcasts, movies and toolkits on this subject put together by MAVA - the Minnesota… more |
Staff Training, Capacity Building | inclusive, inclusion, equity, racism | 2020 |
QuickStart Guide for New Volunteers
Not a library, but a lovely example to get ideas from. |
Volunteer Orientation | orientation, handbook | 2022 |
Questionnaire Design Tip Sheet - Harvard University
A tip sheet on question wording from the Harvard University Program on Survey Research. |
Capacity Building, Staff Training | surveys | 2021 |
Putting Corporate Volunteers to Work
This one-hour webinar (2012) presents evaluation points to help volunteer managers determine if their program is ready to engage, or expand the use… more |
Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources | business partnerships, group volunteering, corporate relations | 2012 |
Professional Ethics in Volunteer Administration
These handouts and powerpoint are from a webinar titled: "Sticky Situations: Applying Ethics to Your Work with Volunteers" presented by Katie… more |
Staff Training | Ethics, CVA | 2022 |
Pro Bono Project Worksheet - VolunteerMatch
This worksheet was a handout provided during aone-hour webinar entitled Engaging Pro Bono & Skilled Volunteers. It was presented for a library… more |
Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training | Skilled Volunteers, Pro Bono | |
Privilege, Bias and Microaggressions
On Aug 25, 2022 Points of Light and the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration led a conversation exploring identity, privilege, bias and… more |
Capacity Building, Staff Training | privilege, bias, microaggression, diversity, equity, inclusion | 2022 |
Preparing Co-Workers to Lead Volunteers Online and On Land
Ideas for training staff to engage with volunteers. |
Staff Training, Capacity Building | Staff Resistance, staff buy-in, staff training | 2022 |
Power, Privilege, and Volunteerism
Volunteerism can reinforce patterns of power and privilege (whites and people of means as volunteers, and communities of color or those without means… more |
Staff Training | equity, inclusive, inclusion | 2020 |
Planning for Including People with Intellectual Disabilities in Volunteer Programs
A tip sheet created by The Arc to help you to include people with intellectual disabilities in your volunteer program. |
Staff Training | disabilities, diversity, equity, inclusion | 2019 |
Partners in Reading Leadership Team, San Jose, CA
In this 2-minute interview with Judy Klikun, you will learn about engaging volunteer leaders, building teams and developing advocates for the library. |
Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers | adult literacy, Video, leadership team, team leaders, tutor | 2010 |
Outdoor Programming and Outreach Best Practices - Oklahoma City OK
Developed by the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma City during the COVID-19 pandemic as a guide for staff. |
Capacity Building | outdoor, outreach, programming, COVID-19 | 2021 |
Online Book Sale Operation - Mesa AZ
The link below to a 10 minute video will introduce you to the Mesa Public Library's amazing online booksale operation (about $100,000/year) which is… more |
Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Capacity Building, Job Specific Volunteer Training | online booksales, Friends, Friends of the Library, Booksales | 2022 |
Nonprofit Volunteers: Minimizing the Risk
Minimizing legal exposure is important because volunteers’ acts are generally imputed to the nonprofit organization. Specific, written volunteer… more |
Capacity Building, Staff Training | Risk Management | 2013 |
NextGen Nexus: Moving Beyond Awareness
This article answers the question: How do we build awareness about our issue among young Americans? |
Millennials | Gen Z | 2020 |
NextGen Nexus: A Peek Inside the Millennial Mind
What if you could have a young person authentically share their viewpoint about your social issue and cause? What would they say, and how can you… more |
Millennials | 2019 | |
New Volunteer Manager's Toolkit
Get Involved Webinar Archived June 27, 2018 New to volunteer management? Looking for a refresher on the basics? This one hour webinar, presented by… more |
Capacity Building, Interviewing Volunteers, Staff Training | 2018 |