1. Volunteer Engagement Foundation
Trends
Capacity Building
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2. Imagine a world in which your library has all the resources it needs to:
Serve more clients
Deliver more programs
Strengthen its staff
Spread its message more widely
Increase its financial stability
Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow, 2008
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3. Trends and Issues Flickr: Hopkinsii Jill
Clearly some team members know more about the volunteer infrastructure and program than others. What kinds of facts are available about your library? Putting the pilot team together and answering the organizational assessment:
What has your library learned?
What have you learned?
What do you know? What don’t you know?
What would you like to do differently?
What would need to be different in order for you to be different?
Transition:
Demands of time
More entrepreneurial
Episodic volunteering
Informal volunteering
Technology
Impact-focused
Generations
Changing Roles:
Achievement oriented
High level work
Self-directed
Staff paradigm shift
Mission driven
Structural options
Collaboration
Desire for flexibility and control
Skills based volunteer
Episodic experiences the AY year leads into this. It appeals to Boomers and then generations that follow to manage their time.
Self-directed not micro-managed
Generational shift to more impact more feedback more independent volunteering/entrepreneurial
Why volunteerism is in the spotlight now:
Obama
Economy
Jill’s therories, there but for the grace of god go I
You can take advantage of the generational shift, even as you have volunteers aging out of traditional assignments. For example, Boomers are very health conscious, and the health benefits of volunteering are well documented. In addition, Boomers will be responsible for the largest transfer of wealth in US history. Engaging them as volunteers can create a significant channel of financial support for your library and its programs, as volunteers give twice as much as non-volunteers (according to the recent IS study...) You can also tap Boomers’ concern for creating a legacy (mentioned on the last slide) through intergenerational opportunities that help expand your volunteer workforce and create the volunteers of tomorrow. Most adult volunteers report a history of volunteering as a young person and most volunteering for Boomers has involved their children. Older Boomers who are empty nesters often enjoy the mutual learning that intergenerational volunteering provides. Younger Boomers still have children at home, and family volunteering quality time – and an avenue for libraries to engage people who care about learning and libraries as they evolve their volunteer programs to be ready for Boomers and the generations that follow.
Flexibility
Time for family volunteering
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4. Spotlight on Volunteerism
Economy
Spotlight on Volunteerism
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5. Time Collaboration Technology Generational Shift Results Focused
Culture Shift
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6. Organizational Structure Gateway Behaviors
Volunteers Leading Volunteers
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7. Executing the right things Focusing on organizational vision
Leadership
Motivating teams
Executing the right things
Focusing on organizational vision
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8. Envisioning possibilities Founding initiatives Changing norms
Entrepreneurship
Envisioning possibilities
Founding initiatives
Changing norms
Jen Entrepreneurship dovetails with the changing roles we mentioned last time, specifically:
Achievement oriented
High level work
Self-directed
Staff paradigm shift
Structural options
Desire for flexibility
Self-directed not micro-managed
Generational shift to more impact more feedback more independent volunteering
Typically, entrepreneurs are willing to take risks, generate and try innovative ideas… some of the ideas you all shared on the last call were very entrepreneurial, such as:
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9. Boomers Leading Change
Flexibility
Control
Achievement
Collaboration
Partners
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10. Create Training Opportunities
Technology
Expand Communication
Increase Diversity
Create Training Opportunities
Steward Time
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