Volunteer Resources & Recruitment on the Web

Objectives Be able to locate, identify, and utilize volunteer management resources on the web. Create and maintain volunteer opportunity listings on available sites to aid recruitment.

Volunteer Management Resources Websites and Local Community Groups

Resource Websites Ventura County Volunteer Coordinator’s Council –  Listings include volunteer recruitment sites and organizations, volunteer management tips and trainings, and volunteer recognition ideas Energize, Inc. –  Volunteer Leaders organization that offers a resource library, referral network and “collective wisdom” database

Community Resources RSVP–  Volunteer organization that helps match senior volunteers to opportunities throughout their community. Needed on-going opportunities can be listed in their newsletter and group/one-time opportunity requests can be filled through the local office National Charity League (NCL)-  Mothers and daughters serving their communities together. Good resource for group/one-time opportunity needs

Online Volunteer Recruitment Websites and Organizations

Recruitment Websites United Way of Ventura County – United Way of Santa Barbara – United Way of Northern Santa Barbara – United Way of San Luis Obispo (volunteer component coming soon) –

Recruitment Websites Volunteer Match – Craig’s List – ww.craigslist.org YourHub.com - Idealist.org –

Volunteer Opportunities Maintain a file containing all your volunteer opportunities including a brief description, requirements, and date/time requirements, and ACS contact information. Utilize this file to easily update current sites and opportunities as well as when creating new site listings by copying and pasting directly onto the sites.

United Way of Ventura County –

Volunteer Match –

Ventura County Star Your Hub –

Craig’s List –

Crosslistings The state volunteer website, gets its listings from the United Way volunteer sites. Americorp gets their listings from several other sites including Idealist.org and Volunteer Match. Listing on one or two of these sites should result in your listings being available on most of the major sites.

In Conclusion… This presentation was meant to give you an overview and show the potential benefits of utilizing these sites. Each area needs to spend time researching the various agencies and resources available to them. If you are aware of any sites that should be included within these pages, please let me know –

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