Management of Not-For-Profit Organizations

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Fall 2014

Updates

• child soldiers in Goma• Found out one of the agencies working with child

soldiers in Goma is Caritas, a Catholic service agencies

• I asked our President to connect me to the local Catholic Archbishop, to see if he could put me in touch from someone from Caritas

• Dr. Johnson sent the email.

• I haven’t heard back yet. I’ll continue to pursue

• and then…

Presentations

Updates

ProfDrop• Is now officially approved by Providence

cabinet!

• John Johnson & I are meeting Tuesday

• I’ll be inviting Field Ed student involvement

FUEL for the FUTURE• I have a student to work on this next semester

• I’ll be inviting Field Ed student involvement

Updates

Dead Weight Electronics• Field Ed opportunity at end of next semester

Got SALT?• Gina will be doing this for field ed

• Option for others to be involved as well

• Started to put it online

Designing and Managing Volunteer Programs

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Brudney

Volunteers & Non-Profits

volunteers are• useful

₋ multiply dollars

• challenging₋ supervision

₋ motivation

Volunteers & Non-Profits

volunteers are• the distinctive feature of non-profits

₋ what really makes non-profits different from for-profits

• fundamental to identity₋ non-profit organizations are, at their core, means

of coordinating voluntary action

Elements of a Volunteer Program

1. Why?

2. Staff Buy-In

3. Program Fit

4. Managing Managers

5. Clarifying Roles

6. Motivating

7. Finding & Equipping

8. Managing

9. Assessing & Rewarding

1. Why?

• establishing the rationale for volunteer involvement

2. Staff Buy-In

• involving paid staff in volunteer program design

3. Program Fit

• integrating the volunteer program into the organization

4. Managing Managers

• creating positions of program leadership

5. Clarifying Roles

• preparing job descriptions for volunteer positions

6. Motivating

• meeting the needs of volunteers

Why People Volunteer

1965 1974 1981 1985 1987 1989 1991

help people 38% 53% 45% 52% 70%

do something useful 56% 62% 61%

enjoy doing volunteer work 31% 36% 29% 32% 35% 34% 39%

interest in activity or work 35% 36%

sense of duty 33% 32%

religious concerns 21% 27% 22% 26% 31%

could not refuse request 7% 15%

friend or relative received service 22% 23% 26% 27% 29% 29%

volunteer received service 10% 9% 17%

learning experience 3% 11% 10% 9% 8% 16%

nothing else to do/free time 4% 6% 10% 9% 10% 8%

thought work would keep taxes down 5% 3%

Motivation for Involvement in Volunteer Work

Why People Volunteer

7. Finding & Equipping

• recruiting and training volunteers

8. Managing

• managing volunteers

9. Assessing & Rewarding

• evaluating and recognizing the volunteer effort

• evaluating volunteers

• evaluating volunteer programs• counting activities

• calculation equivalent dollar value

• internal benefits

• external benefits

Exam Questions

1. Apply a chapter to a situation:• Any of these 4 are fair game:

• The question will be something like:₋ “Apply Nash’s ideas from chapter 10, ‘Social Entrepreneurship

and Social Enterprise’, to improving the situation of the following organization”…and then I’ll give a short description of the organization.

chapter author title

10 Nash Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise

15 Thomas Outcome Assessment and Program Evaluation

24 Watson & Abzug Effective Human Resource Practices

26 Brudney Designing and Managing Volunteer Programs

Exam Questions

2. Propose a new, fun, annual fundraising activity for Providence.

• Ideally, it should play the same role at Providence as the annual bed-push plays at the Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences at UofM plays.

₋ http://umanitoba.ca/news/blogs/blog/2012/09/26/aggie-bed-push-rolls-this-weekend-on-trans-canada-highway/

₋ http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/2011/10/02/aggie-bed-push-fundraiser-passes-through-portage

• Of course, you don’t want it to be too much like the Aggie bed-push, so we don’t look like copy-cats.

Exam Questions

3. Apply everything you have learnt in this course to the following situation:

• And then I’ll give a description of the situation.