July 16: Presenting in Louisville re: Online Volunteering
08:16, 20 May 2009
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On July 16, I will present onsite for the first time ever in my home state in Kentucky! I'm living in Kentucky through most of July (first time I've lived in my home state in more than 20 years!) and I'm so excited to get to help nonprofits in my home state in-person during this brief stay.
I will present a two-hour workshop about online volunteering/virtual volunteering at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNPE) on 323 West Broadway, Ste 501 in Louisville. The presentation will begin promptly at 9 a.m.
Visit the online CNPE training calendar or call 502 315-2673 to register for the class. Costs are $55.00 for members of CNPE and $75.00 for non-members (however, please note that this money goes to CNPE, not me -- I'm doing this pro bono). Space is limited.
I hope people as far away as Evansville, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee, and Bowling Green, Lexington, Frankfort and Henderson, Kentucky, will make the drive for this workshop - it will be worth it!
Thousands of organizations are involving online volunteers effectively, because they think of these online volunteers as "real", not "virtual." Are you? Come find out how to get started with "virtual volunteering" and what elements make such volunteering successful. You will learn not only how to work with online volunteers, but also how to use the Internet to work with ALL your volunteers. This is not a technology workshop; this is a workshop about working with humans!
Learning objectives
- to understand the value of online volunteers and how to promote this value internally to the organization
- to identify tasks that could be done by online volunteers, and to encourage staff internally to develop such tasks
- to fully integrate the recruitment, orientation, support and recognition of online volunteers into an organization's existing volunteer management practices
- to know how to get started immediately to use the Internet to support all volunteers, not just online volunteers
- to know where to find additional, detailed information online
More information about my training and consulting. Note that I'm also available for online presentations as well. And view my availability. My schedule is filling up quickly.
