All Titles in Our Store

12 Key Actions of Volunteer Program Champions

Free report on what real-life "Volunteer Program Champion" CEOs think, feel, and do to support volunteer involvement in their organizations.

77 Ways to Recognize Volunteers

An idea-a-page to show real appreciation for volunteers.

77 Ways to Recruit Volunteers

An idea-a-page for successful recruitment.

A Conversation with a Purpose: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Prospective Volunteers

Practical advice, tools, and techniques to conduct prospective volunteer interviews effectively - something every leader of volunteers must do all the time.

A People Lens: 101 Ways to Move Your Organization Forward

Sprinkled with true stories of innovative volunteer engagement, best-practice tips, and perspectives from agency leaders and volunteers, this book will change how you think about engaging highly-skilled volunteers.

A Toolkit for Volunteer Speed Matching

Think Speed Dating meets Volunteer Recruiting! One clever volunteer center outside of London produced this Toolkit for the perfect, fun and upbeat recruiting event.

The A-Z of Volunteering and Asylum: A Handbook for Managers

Refugees and asylum-seekers are potential new volunteers in England and other countries. Learn how to reach out successfully to involve this growing population for mutual benefits.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Youth Leadership

Sensible and inspiring advice for adults who truly want to engage young people in meaningful leadership volunteer roles, with how-to tips on everything from recruitment to intergenerational meetings.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Service-Learning

A clear and informative strategy for schools, faith communities, and youth organizations to blend the best of effective service-learning programs with the philosophy of youth "asset building" and Healthy Communities.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Training Peer Helpers

A trainer's manual for adult leaders preparing young volunteers to do peer helping, with 15 interactive sessions complete with discussion guides and handouts (many useful for any age volunteer learning to do counseling).

Best of All: The Quick Reference Guide To Effective Volunteer Involvement

A concise compendium of best practices in volunteer program management.

Better Safe. . .

Demystifies risk management and sets out in plain language what every volunteer program needs to know about this sometimes scary, always critical subject.

Beyond Police Checks

Definitive guide for screening volunteers and employees, explaining why and how to assure everyone's protection.

Branch Networks in the 21st Century: A Handbook

Helps those in national or large organizations to think about how branch or regional offices can strengthen, support, and extend their reach.

Build a Better Board in 30 Days

Great reminders for experienced board members and an easy orientation for new board members.

Building Staff/Volunteer Relations

Insight into (and humor about) the reasons for tension between employees and volunteers and practical strategies for designing satisfying work for both groups.

By Definition

A walk-through of the importance of developing policies for and about volunteers, with clear examples and templates.

By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers

Newly revised and updated, this book remains the only presentation of the full scope and depth of volunteer activity throughout three centuries of American history.

Children as Volunteers

How to integrate volunteers under the age of 14 into an existing adult volunteer program: multi-age teams, designing work, preparing the agency, liaisoning with schools, and legal issues.

Church Puzzle Game

Complete instructions and materials for an interactive group activity designed to allow faith communities to self-assess how well their congregations function.

e-Volunteerism: New Subscription

e-Volunteerism combines the best of a printed professional journal with the full potential of Internet technology. For international subscribers who want to be challenged and to go beyond the ordinary in volunteer management/leadership.

Employee Volunteering

Shows how the private, public and voluntary sectors can benefit from employee volunteering, and gives clear, practical advice on setting up employee volunteering programs (from the UK).

Exploring Volunteer Space: The Recruiting of a Nation

A philosophic-yet-practical exploration of the universe of volunteering, attempting to describe, define and explain how and where volunteering occurs.

Focus on Volunteering KOPYKIT ^TM

Camera-ready pages about volunteering, how to work with volunteers, the history of volunteering, and today's trends--for use as training handouts, bulletin board posters, newsletter inserts.

Friends Across the Divide

All the guidelines and materials necessary for an e-mail exchange between students and senior partners.

From the Top Down

Outlines the key executive decisions necessary to lay the foundation for effective volunteer involvement: policies, budgeting, staffing, employee-volunteer relationships, legal issues, dollar value of volunteers.

Get the Word Out!

Provocative booklet that urges a new attitude toward young people as affected by "adultism" and shows how to be more welcoming to young leaders.

Good Guys: The Eight Steps to Limitless Possibility for Fraternity Recruitment

Learn how to develop a dynamic membership development campaign by applying great, practical tips from two college fraternity leaders (not just for recruiting volunteers on campus!).

Handling Problem Volunteers

Insightful and humorous guide to dealing with a wide range of problem behaviors exhibited by some volunteers, from irritating to seriously dysfunctional.

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

Managing a volunteer program part-time? Or just not enough hours in a day? Full task analysis of the job of volunteer program manager, how to build a management team and engage volunteers in leadership of the program.

How to Produce Fabulous Fundraising Events

Step-by-step guide to making money effectively and enjoyably by running a Dynamite Dinner--and how to involve volunteers throughout. Available with a computer disk of forms, checklists, timelines.

Keep Those Volunteers Around

A back-to-basics book on volunteer retention.

Keeping Volunteers: A Guide to Retention

How to enhance volunteer retention and motivation, avoid volunteer burnout, get beyond short-term commitments, and more – subjects of critical interest to every volunteer program manager.

Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles

Inspiring examination of why dreams die, how to keep dreams alive, forming dream-nurturing environments, and rules for dreamers and Dream-Catchers.

Measuring Up

Dozens of forms to plan for and then fairly assess your program readiness, success, climate, volunteer performance, training, change, customer services, communication, recruitment, recognition, image and much more.

Model Volunteer Handbook

Detailed guide to developing an essential handbook for new volunteers, with specific suggested topics and examples of policy statements.

Proof Positive

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.

Raising Charitable Children

Warmly provides practical tips for adults to share the gifts of generosity, selflessness, and compassion with children of all ages and get past the "gimme-gimme" mind-set.

The Rants and Raves Anthology

We invited the best-selling authors in the volunteer field to share what's on their minds right now

Recognizing Volunteers and Paid Staff

10 Keys to recognizing volunteers, ends with a list of lots and lots of actions you can take to say thank you.

Running a Safe and Effective Mentoring Program

Clear and streamlined guide to developing a youth mentoring program of excellence, taking you from vision to recruitment, matching, retention, and evaluation.

Secrets of Successful Fundraising

Nineteen top fundraising professionals clearly explain all your options for increasing your revenue and promoting your organization.

The Secrets of Successful Boards

A "Boards 101" book for trustees new to boards, for leaders of all-volunteer associations, or for anyone starting a nonprofit from the ground up, with chapters by ten well-known authorities on boards.

Secrets of Successful Retreats

A step-by-step guide to planning and facilitating a productive off-site retreat for boards and other volunteers, paid management and line staff, or any combination thereof.

Self-Help Accounting

A how-to guide to fulfilling the role of board treasurer, written in simple, clear language for the non-accountant.

Stalking the Elusive Executive

Free e-publication - A dozen tips written mainly for volunteer program managers who need help in gaining administrative support, even to get their bosses to read a book on the topic of volunteers.

Step-by-Step

Ideas for how young people can discover what they care about, gain support, and implement a plan for change.

Take Your Partner for the Corporate Tango

Clear guide to community/corporate collaboration, including how to prepare, choose a suitable partner, assure a successful working relationship, and other practical do’s and don’ts (from Australia).

Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series (Complete Set)

12 ready-to-deliver, but completely adaptable, training sessions for teaching paid staff the fundamentals of working with volunteers in your setting.

Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series (Limited Multi-Use License)

12 ready-to-deliver, but completely adaptable, training sessions for teaching paid staff the fundamentals of working with volunteers in your setting.