http://www.asmallchange.net/more-about-using-board-members-volunteers/ Making sense of fundraising for non-profits. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.asmallchange.net/more-about-using-board-members-volunteers/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Phil Deely Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:31:36 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=26#comment-15 My one caveat about working with volunteers is that it is critical to have a clearly defined job description in place before recruiting the volunteer to fill a slot that in a larger organization might be filled with a paid staff person. Small NPO's pride themselves on the family-like nature of their undertakings and too often the assumption is that one can't critique a volunteer's performanance because, after all, 's/he's doing it for nothing.' Not true! Clear expectations are crucial----in an extreme case it may be necessary to 'fire' a volunter...for how to check out www.strategicgov.blogspot.com. My one caveat about working with volunteers is that it is critical to have a clearly defined job description in place before recruiting the volunteer to fill a slot that in a larger organization might be filled with a paid staff person. Small NPO’s pride themselves on the family-like nature of their undertakings and too often the assumption is that one can’t critique a volunteer’s performanance because, after all, ’s/he’s doing it for nothing.’ Not true! Clear expectations are crucial—-in an extreme case it may be necessary to ‘fire’ a volunter…for how to check out http://www.strategicgov.blogspot.com.

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