CREATE A VOLUNTEER- ENHANCED OLLI! OSHER NATIONAL CONFERENCE APRIL 13-15, 2011 JUDY MANN, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ELENA MARCIANO, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC JUDY WIDEN, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

AGENDA How We Use Volunteers The Challenges From the organization’s perspective From the volunteer’s perspective The Benefits To your OLLI For the volunteer Small Group Exercise - Volunteer Management Best Practices Feedback – Large Group Discussion Wrap-up

HOW DO YOU USE VOLUNTEERS AT YOUR OLLI?

THE CHALLENGES OF VOLUNTEERS

THE CHALLENGES OF VOLUNTEERS - THE ORGANIZATION’S PERSPECTIVE

CHALLENGES - THE VOLUNTEER’S PERSPECTIVE

THE BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERS

THE BENEFITS TO YOUR OLLI

Net Benefits = Benefits – Challenges

BRAINSTORM Why do people volunteer?

THE BENEFITS FOR THE VOLUNTEER

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self actualization…It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming. Abraham Maslow

MASLOW HIERARCHY OF NEEDS PYRAMID

What volunteer opportunities or environment can we create in order to meet needs for belonging, esteem & self actualization?

SMALL GROUP EXERCISE: VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES Share your successes and challenges with your table Create a list of best practices based on your experiences Each table selects a discussion facilitator & a recorder The recorder will share your table’s best practices with the large group Consider: recruitment efforts, appreciation, management tools, evaluation, procedures & policies etc.

FEEDBACK FROM TABLES

ACTION PLANNING What one thing will I do as a result of this session?

I can no other answer make, but thanks, and thanks. William Shakespeare