14:33, 20 November 2009
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I'll be in Belgrade, Serbia to lead workshops for
EducationUSA. From their web site:
EducationUSA is a global network of more than 400 advising centers supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) fosters mutual understanding between the United States and other countries by promoting personal, professional, and institutional ties between private citizens and organizations in the United States and abroad, as well as by presenting U.S. history, society, art and culture in all of its diversity to overseas audiences. The foreign students of yesterday are becoming the world leaders today.
I'll be doing intensive workshops to get local staff from the area's Educational Centers up-to-speed on
demonstrating both financial and program credibility and transparency: how to create and communicate a realistic budget, writing a program proposal, and communications activities to build credibility with current and potential partners. It's an agenda I could easily spend a WEEK on, truly.
I'll arrive in Belgrade Dec. 6, and depart Dec. 12.
If you are in Belgrade in that time and would like to meet, please
email me. Please tell me who you are, the organization you represent, and why you would like to meet.
More about
my training and consulting services. Please note I am not taking any new consulting jobs for the rest of 2009, through January 2010.
11:19, 20 November 2009
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Another week, another set of lively, relevant, fascinating discussions on two of my favorite online communities, both focused on people coordinator or manage volunteers:
OzVPM and
UKVPMs.
If you work with volunteers in any way -- as the coordinator or director of volunteers at an organization, as a staff member who works with volunteers, and as a paid staff member or volunteer yourself -- you should join these
YahooGroups. Don't just join via email; create a
Yahoo account or use one you have already to join so that, even if you choose to receive messages via email, you can go through the groups' archives and read past threads.
OzVPM is focused on Australia, New Zealand and the surrounding areas, and
UKVPMs is focused on the United Kingdom and Ireland. Recent discussions and debates have focused on volunteer rights, the ongoing trend of corporations and governments to support volunteer recruitment campaigns but not volunteer management, developing national volunteering policies, the latest trends in volunteer involvement, and whether an "International Volunteer Manager's Day" would help or be detrimental to recognition of the vital importance of volunteer coordinators and managers to successful nonprofit organizations, schools, etc. Discussions and debates are lively, intelligent, provocative, and always valuable. These groups go well beyond "what kind of table centerpiece should I use at the next volunteer thank you luncheon."
Attention anyone putting together a conference or workshop for coordinators and managers of volunteers: look to these online groups to make your event
truly speak to your target audience!
