Ground Floor, Rm G7 Community House
77 King Street
Palmerston North
Volunteer Magnet Workshop
29 Jul 2010 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Join international volunteerism expert Andy Fryar in this interactive half day Workshop in which he will share information on how to get the right volunteers, how to encourage them to stay and how to measure success.
Be thinking about our programs, our roles and ourselves differently we can begin to create an organisational culture which is conductive to attracting and keeping more volunteers.
This event requires registration - please contact us for more details.
Turn Your Organisation Into a Volunteer Magnet!
Many volunteer programs measure success based purely on the number of volunteers they are able to recruit. However, recruiting interested people as volunteers is only part of the equation.
- How do we ensure we are getting the right people?
- How are our volunteers being encouraged to stay?
- How do we measure success?
By thinking about our programs, our roles and ourselves differently we can begin to create an organisational culture which is conducive to attracting and keeping more volunteers!
Join international volunteerism expert Andy Fryar in this interactive half day workshop in which he will share, amongst other things, the experiences and lessons gained from co-leading an international collaborative project which asked Volunteer Managers to share what had made their programs 'magnetic'.
Above all, Andy will challenge participants to understand that recruitment is merely one small part of the process and that as volunteer leaders; we have the power to influence and shape far more than we may believe.
Andy Fryar
Andy Fryar is the founder and Director of OzVPM (Australasian Volunteer Program Management) - a consultancy, training and resource company specialising in volunteerism (www.ozvpm.com).
He has contributed significantly to the Australian volunteerism community and his achievements include serving as President of Volunteering Australia.
In 1998, Andy convened the working party that later evolved into AAVA - the Australasian Association for Volunteer Administrators.
Andy has helped produce three books on volunteer management and is a co-author of Volunteer Management: an essential guide - Australia’s premier guidebook to volunteering. He currently serves on the editorial committee of the Australian Journal of Volunteering and is also a member of the editorial team for e-volunteerism, an international electronic journal of volunteerism (www.evolunteerism.com) based in Philadelphia.
Andy travels extensively and has conducted volunteer management training and worked with volunteer involving agencies in many countries throughout North America, Asia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK, where he is a faculty member with CSV’s prestigious Institute of Advanced Volunteer Management. He is a co-founder of the annual Australasian Retreat for Advanced Volunteer Management (www.vpmretreat.com.au)
More recently he has been elected as Chairperson on the international committee overseeing the promotion of International Volunteer Manager’s Day, celebrated on November 5 each year. In 2003, Andy was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian government in recognition of his services to the volunteering movement in Australia.
Andy can be contacted at andy@ozvpm.com