Assess your management of volunteer resources

Programs utilize volunteers to meet their mission and goals. The following resource will help you and your members develop a system of volunteer resource management that will continue from year to year.

Use this resource to:

• Evaluate your current community volunteer efforts
• Develop a comprehensive plan for recruiting, supporting and managing community volunteers

Consider how volunteer roles and responsibilities differ from member positions. This will help ensure clarity about positions within your organization. Volunteers may not be displaced by members.

The resource is a checklist used by the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC, New York, NY) to plan and implement community volunteer program that is well supported and managed by the program. LISC is an AmeriCorps National Direct program that focuses on increasing affordable housing opportunities for low and moderate income families through housing development and counseling first time homebuyers.

The checklist is part of a larger publication called "A Guide to Investing in Volunteer Resources Management: Improve Your Philanthropic Portfolio Developed by the UPS Foundation in partnership with the Association for Volunteer Administration and the Points of Light Foundation.