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Professional Development Survey
An Assessment of Nonprofit(s) Need for Volunteer Services Development
Number of respondants: 242

  1. Do volunteers play a role within your organization?
  1. Please rate your organization’s level of dependency on volunteers?
  1. Are you in need of support to improve your volunteer program?
  1. Please check which areas your volunteer program needs to further develop? (Select all that apply)

Other:

  • Board Development (6)
  • Fundraising (4)
  • Policy Development (2)
  • Retention (2)
  • Training (2)
  • Dismissing volunteers
  • Evaluations
  • Execution of Programs
  • Financial management and Grant Writing
  • How to get members more involved
  • Leadership Development
  • Making attendance a responsibility, getting volunteers to take on more responsibility
  • Managing volunteers within a client population where confidentiality is a concern
  • Need leader for a small group
  • Recognition, orientation, communication
  • Scheduling and training
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team development
  • We are "project" oriented-different people help on projects which interest them, mostly hands-on stuff-PR, publicity, etc.
  • Website Management All! We don't have a volunteer program except when it comes to interns
  1. Would your organization currently provide funding for an employee to participate in a volunteer management training program?

  1. Would your organization be willing to provide your volunteer coordinator / manager with 4 - 6 hours per month of paid leave to receive trainings?

  1. How do you prefer to be contacted with information about the Volunteer Management training program and other support information?

  1. Do you have any comments concerning volunteer management professional development:

The responses to question 8 have been omitted to protect the identity of the respondent. The Center for Urban and Public Affairs has the responses on file and will use the responses to propose future training opportunities.




For more information about the VMTP, please contact:

Jack L. Dustin
Wright State University
Center for Urban and Public Affairs
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435
Phone: 937-775-2285
Fax: 937-775-2422