Today's older volunteers have a wealth of knowledge, skills, and professional experience.

Is your organization ready to use them to their fullest potential?

Join us for a new Webinar series on how to engage older volunteers in professional-level roles to help your organization accomplish more. Speakers are grantees from the NCOA RespectAbility Models of Significant Service program. Listen as they share lessons learned on how to recruit and manage older volunteers effectively.

All Webinars are free, but space is limited. You must register for each Webinar separately.

December

How to Create Effective Partnerships
Thursday, Dec. 3, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speaker: Ann Rich, Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative

Discover:

• Why partnerships are important, particularly now
• Types of partnerships-and what to look for in a potential partner
• The "do's and don'ts" of effective partnerships

Registration full.

Organizational Culture: Getting Your Nonprofit Ready for Leadership Volunteers
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speaker: Lisa Ferretti, ExcelleShare & Gajtana Simonovski, CSSNY

Discover:

• Strategies for addressing staff resistance to leadership volunteers
• How to choose projects that promote joint volunteer and staff planning and implementation
• How to recognize and celebrate organizational change as a sign of growth and increased capacity

Registration full.

Tips for Recruiting & Engaging Leadership-Level Volunteers
Monday, Dec. 7, 1-2 p.m. EST
Friday, Dec. 11, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speakers: Ken Murray & Paddy Clark, Southern Maine Agency on Aging

Discover:

• Messages that attract volunteers with significant professional and management experience
• Venues and methods of delivering those messages
• Ways to work with professional-level older volunteers to build success

Dec. 7 Registration full.
Register now for Dec. 11.

Targeted Marketing & Recruitment of Capacity-Building 55+ Volunteers
Thursday, Dec. 10th from 1-2 p.m. EST
Speakers: Gajtana Simonovski & Kay Oppenheimer, Community Service Society of New York RSVP

Discover:

• What makes an excellent recruitment ad
• The characteristics of 55+ volunteers
• How to write compelling marketing and recruitment messages
• Where to send your message for maximum impact

Register now .

January

Getting Started on Project Development:  Solicitation of Proposals and Establishing Process Protocols
Monday, Jan. 4, 2-3 p.m. EST
Speakers: Lisa Ferretti, LMSW, Director, Center for Excellence in Aging Services, School of Social Welfare-SUNY at Albany & Dahlia Herring, ExcelleShare at the Center for Excellence in Aging Services, School of Social Welfare-SUNY at Albany

Discover:

• How to perform a gap analysis and action plan utilizing the ExcelleShare toolbox
• Specific guidance on how to propose, review and approve projects for leadership volunteers
• Strategies on how to match and monitor volunteer working on a community based project

Register now.

How to Put Together a Successful Volunteer Training Curriculum for 50+ Leadership Volunteers
Friday, Jan. 8, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speaker: Ann Rich, Chica

Discover:

• Topics for a volunteer leadership development training program for 50+ adults
• How these topics differ from a traditional volunteer curriculum
• Effective ways to encourage learning, participation, and empowerment among 50+ volunteers

Registration full.

How to Grow Your Programs by Engaging Older Professional Leadership Volunteers
Thursday, Jan. 21, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speakers: Liesl Slabaugh & Bill James, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound

Discover:

• Compelling reasons to engage older professional-level volunteers in leadership roles
• Examples of how older volunteers can significantly increase your nonprofit's capacity
• Keys to successfully implementing a volunteer program at your organization

Registration full.

Making Your Organization "Boomer-Friendly"
Friday, Jan. 22, 1-2 p.m. EST
Speakers: Liz Rottger & Linda Davis, Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin

Discover:

• How to use your rolodex, social network, and the Internet to recruit highly skilled potential volunteers
• How to use interviews to explore the skills and background of potential volunteers
• How to develop explicit job descriptions and work plans that measure outcomes and impact
• How to develop trust by involving volunteers in planning their own work 

Registration full.

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