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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Volunteer Satisfaction Surveys: 10 Ways to Get it Right
Gathering candid opinions from your volunteers will help you gain insights around what you need to improve. Despite our best efforts, however,… more |
Staff Training | 2012 | |
"E-mail Basics" Powerpoint Training - Huntington Beach
This powerpoint presentation was created for a high skilled volunteer to deliver training to library patrons on "E-Mail Basics." |
Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Job Specific Volunteer Training | tech coach, Training | 2012 |
Book to Action Project- Santa Barbara Public Library
Book-to-Action Programs 2012: Bringing programs about the environment to Santa Barbara Public Library libraries (Green @ Your Library), in… more |
Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training | Book to action, community service, teen volunteers, environment | 2012 |
ESL Conversation Circles - Training Overview
This Prezi slide presentation was developed to help train volunteer ESL Conversation group facilitators. (I found it easier to view on FIrefox than… more |
Job Specific Volunteer Training | ESL conversation circle, ESL | 2013 |
The Importance of Using and Understanding Background Check Screening
This archived webinar was produced by "AL!VE" -- the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement. |
Volunteer Screening / Interviewing, Capacity Building | background checks, screening volunteers | 2013 |
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 |
How to Design Volunteer Training that Helps (Not Hurts) Learning
A brief article that provides principles of learning theory in usable form to the design of volunteer training. |
Capacity Building, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Staff Training, Volunteer Orientation | Training, orientation | 2013 |
In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity
This New York Times article provides an excellent example of a company providing their skilled volunteers to address the needs of a volunteer… more |
Engaging High Impact Volunteers | skilled, Skilled Volunteers | 2013 |
Developing Training Programs for Volunteers
The Who, What, How and Why of designing training programs for volunteers from the Community Toolbox. |
Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation | Training volunteer training | 2013 |
Millennials Want To Make a Serious Impact and You Can Help
Insights into how to engage the Millennial Generation as volunteers and donors, and how you might be turning them off. |
Volunteer Recruitment, Millennials | Millennials, Recruitment | 2014 |
VolunteerMatch Recruitment Tool - Volunteer Recommendations
Did you know that VolunteerMatch has a cool new feature that recommends volunteer opportunities to the thousands of potential volunteers with… more |
Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources | Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, Volunteer Recommendations | 2014 |
Building Better Library Volunteer Programs - Australia
This paper was written by Dr. Susie Prestney, then Manager, Castlemaine Library, Goldfields Library Corporation, Australia following her 2014 grant-… more |
Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers | Prestney, Lehn, Get Involved, Australia | 2014 |
Homework Tutor Training - Huntington Beach
Powerpoint used by Huntington Beach Public Library to train their volunteer Homework Help Tutors. |
Job Specific Volunteer Training | tutor mentor homework help | 2014 |
Millenials Want to Make a Serious Impact
This blog post from Catchafire.org describes the Millenial generation -- the 80 million born between 1980 and 2000 -- and their interest in… more |
Millennials | Millenials | 2014 |
Millenials and Volunteering: Bridging the Generation Gap
Every day my LinkedIn feed and various business magazines are filled with articles about Millennials. Generally, the writer advises the reader on how… more |
Millennials | Millenials, young volunteers, Recruitment | 2015 |
Target Market Success Story: Teen Volunteer
This 5 minute success story is an interview with a library teen volunteer coordinator and one of her awesome teen volunteers talking about what makes… more |
Millennials | Teen | 2015 |
Why Don't People Volunteer?
This brief article from PTO today discusses the importance of not only knowing why people volunteer, but why they don't. |
Volunteer Recruitment, Engaging High Impact Volunteers | Volunteer Recruitment, Motivation | 2015 |
Target Market Success Story: Volunteers with Full Time Jobs
Ever wonder how and why someone with a full time job would be willing and able to volunteer at the library? Here's a 5 minute video clip of one… more |
Engaging High Impact Volunteers | 2015 | |
Virtual Volunteer - 4 minute interview
This 4 minute interview is with a volunteer who couldn't come to the library to volunteer, but still wanted to help with her high level social… more |
Capacity Building, Staff Training | virtual volunteer | 2015 |
Library Volunteer Program Improvement Model
VolunteerMatch worked with the California State Library to develop this self-assessment tool for library volunteer engagement programs. Once you… more |
Capacity Building, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources | Assess, evaluation, program evaluation, planning | 2015 |