An extraordinary book that caps Ivan Scheier's long career as philosopher, provocateur, and conscience of the volunteer field. He urges us all to nurture dreams--our own and those of others. But this is also a practical, you-can-do-it guidebook for activist volunteers and their mentors, showing what dreamers and "Dream-Catchers" must do to bring dreams to life; how to look beyond money as a need, obstacle or trap; ways to get past barriers, bigots, and anchors; how to create a dream-friendly environment; and what makes dreams die...and what makes them live. Ideal for leaders of volunteers who play the role of "dream-catcher" every day. This special book will inspire and motivate you, volunteers, and anyone who wants to make a difference.

Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles: A Guide for Dream-Chasers and Dream-Catchers

Business & Money

Scheier, Ivan H.

Personal Finance

Energize, Inc.

Crammed with innumerable recruitment ideas and recommendations! Starts with designing assignments attractive to new volunteers and continues by addressing organizational image, where to look for volunteers, why people volunteer or do not, how to select the right recruitment technique, what "diversity" means to an organization, and the impact of trends in volunteering today. Includes a full chapter on membership development for all-volunteer organizations and an appendix on how to use the Internet for volunteer recruitment.

The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book

Ellis, Susan J.

Management & Leadership

The only book expressly for agencies about how to incorporate children into an adult volunteer program and find creative ways to use children's fresh perspectives. Includes examples of actual volunteer projects accomplished by youngsters, models of child-adult teams and tips on family volunteering. Learn how to recruit, train and design assignments for volunteers under the age of 14. Plus, special sections discuss mandated school-based community service and legal issues.

Children as Volunteers: Preparing for Community Service

Job Hunting & Careers

Helps employees and volunteers work together successfully by exploring the reasons for conflict between volunteers and employees. Scheier eases the all-too-common stresses of this relationship with a step-by-step process for analyzing tasks and work preferences for both paid and unpaid staff. Offers a great number of creative and practical solutions. Contains lots of useful planning guides. This book will help you: -Deal with one of the most important issues in volunteer management. -Diagnose why there is so often tension between employees and volunteers. -Take steps to develop successful working teams.

Building Staff/Volunteer Relations

Sceier, Ivan H.

21st Century Revision of a classic! The basics of a volunteer recordkeeping system: the why and how of application forms, volunteer data files, assignment records, time and activity reports, proving impact.

Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Recordkeeping Systems, 21st Century Edition

Reference

Presents strategies for any successful and organized volunteer manager, but especially if you lead volunteers as an "add on" to other duties. Learn to clarify expectations, find administrative volunteers and put them to work in vital ways, and share ownership of the volunteer program. Includes a detailed "Volunteer Management Task Analysis," forms and procedures to simplify the workday, and an essential appendix of volunteerism resources.

The (Help!) I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management

Campbell, Katherine Noyes

Volunteering is so pervasive in the United States that it can be observed daily in almost every aspect of life-from giving blood to handing out political leaflets. The problem is that volunteering, because it is so pervasive, often goes unrecognized. The historical chapters of this book present an overview of the involvement of volunteers in every area of American life and trace the effect of this involvement on American institutions, professions, and social events. Yet presenting a history of volunteers is not enough. We needed to define terms like volunteer, which has many connotations, and note how the past gives direction for the future. We feel that the ramifications of our historical data are important-not just the history itself. In fact, our perspective on the past gave us a way to address some concerns we have about the present, including: The ways in which volunteering is often misunderstood and therefore volunteers are incorrectly stereotyped as meddlers, do-gooders, radicals, or untrained and unpaid labor. The frequent assumption that volunteering is only done by select segments of the population, such as seniors or women. The tendency to credit volunteer work only in the social welfare area and not to see the many volunteer activities in other aspects of American life, such as political and cultural. The assertion that volunteer involvement is a substitute for adequate funding. By The People puts these issues in historical perspective and suggests implications for the future. There is even an entire chapter specifically on the evolution of the profession of volunteer management.

By The People : A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition

Susan J. Ellis

Katherine H. Campbell

Literature & Fiction

Now in its third edition, By The People: A History of Americans as Volunteers remains the only authoritative examination of how volunteers have pioneered community action and social change from colonial days to the present, from the historical mass movement for abolition to current international relief efforts for victims of famine, in every part of the country and in every decade. The authors clearly show that our history has indeed been shaped by citizens who recognize a need and then become involved to take responsibility for meeting that need.

By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition

History

Americas

One of the true pioneers of volunteer management, Marlene Wilson has shared her vision and practical advice with practitioners around the world for over 40 years. Her seminal 1976 book, The Effective Management of Volunteer Programs, was the first attempt anywhere to outline what volunteer management is all about. Now she has compiled 16 of her most popular presentations from 1974 to 1999 into one book. Marlene Wilson’s stories and ideas provided inspiration and vision for countless volunteer program managers. They still do. Enjoy and learn!

Visionary Leadership in Volunteer Programs: Insight and Inspiration from the Speeches of Marlene Wilson

Wilson, Marlene

A bestseller since 1986, FROM THE TOP DOWN was the first book to identify the critical link between the actions of a top leader of an organization and the overall success of volunteer engagement. Over the years, it has guided many executives in taking a stronger role with their "nonsalaried personnel department" and given voice to directors of volunteer involvement who so often feel that their bosses "just don't understand." This fully revised third edition of FROM THE TOP DOWN has been updated to reflect many changes and trends in the world and in volunteerism. It points the way to success with volunteers by showing how to: *Articulate a vision and strategy for volunteer involvement *Make the most of the connection between money donors and time donors *Avoid tension between volunteers and employees *Tap new community resources, from pro bono service to voluntourism *Budget for and creatively fund volunteer efforts *Find the best person to lead volunteer participation *Manage risk, legal, and insurance issues realistically *Distinguish between the wage replacement cost of volunteer time and its true value *Demonstrate executive commitment on a daily basis Whether an organization is just starting out with a new volunteer initiative or has many years of experience with a well-developed corps of volunteers, FROM THE TOP DOWN provides thought-provoking and thoughtful advice to achieve the maximum impact from the participation of volunteers.

From the Top Down: The Executive Role in Successful Volunteer Involvement

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