Involving volunteers with disabilities - yes you can!
16:48, 28 October 2009
.. Posted in Volunteerism and Volunteer Management.. Link
Involving volunteers shouldn't be about a nonprofit or other organization having things to do and needing someone to do them -- that's OLD SCHOOL.
Involving volunteers should be about wanting to create a community of supports, about creating an avenue for community members to see first hand what your organization is doing, and reaching out to those you may not be reaching otherwise, among other MODERN reasons.
Some organizations are using volunteering to involve people with disabilities as volunteers (rather than their being mere recipients of volunteer service). Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project has launched a Service Inclusion Success Story Library featuring in-depth interviews (including pictures) with volunteer programs and disability organizations that have conducted innovative, high quality, inclusive service activities, as well as with outstanding volunteers with disabilities. The interviews delve into the root causes of success. How did these programs make inclusive service a reality? What barriers did they encounter and how did they overcome them? What are the best techniques they’ve learned from their experience? All stories can be downloaded in either PDF or WORD and shared with your colleagues, volunteers, friends and family. Additional interviews and stories will be posted in the coming months.
