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Webinar: Mobilizing Volunteers in the Face of Budget Cuts - A Realistic Look

12/02/2009 - 12:00pm
12/02/2009 - 1:30pm

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.

Instructor: Susan Ellis, President, Energize Inc.

Cost: $99; no additional fee for multiple participants at the same phone/computer connection.

For more info and to register.

Sponsored by the Society for Nonprofit Organizations, a WNA Preferred Vendor.