Where can you find a free, detailed guide on effectively engaging and supporting volunteers at a nonprofit, NGO, school, government agency, community program, etc.?

My web site.

There is an entire section of my web site devoted to various aspects of volunteer engagement: creating assignments, recruiting volunteers, recruiting specific types of volunteers, how to support volunteers (so their work is actually useful and they keep coming back), how to keep volunteers safe, how to keep everyone else safe when they’re around volunteers, and on and on.

There’s information about volunteers from the corporate world, group volunteering, tech-related volunteering and volunteers who are immigrants. There’s even information about groups who actively campaign against volunteering and volunteerism.

And the information on these pages aren’t just from me: I also link to web sites, blogs and books by other people, each an expert in at least some aspect of volunteer engagement or a related subject, each worth listening to.

Why give it away for free? Why not put it all into a book? Because that’s how passionate I am about volunteerism, about wanting to dispel myths and harmful traditions, about wanting what makes volunteer engagement worthwhile and what makes it effective to be far better known.

That isn’t to say there aren’t good books out there about volunteer engagement, and that you shouldn’t read them. And if you want to know where to find the books I recommend, this section of my web site will help.

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