Discussion Questions

1. What are the implications of the changing volunteer environment to your agency?
   
   
2. What is happening in your community that is affecting the recruiting and maintaining of your volunteers?
   
   
3. Have you changed any of your volunteer management practices/strategies to respond to the changing volunteer environment? If so, how?
   
   

Resources

Caring Canadians, Involved Canadians Highlights of the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating. Ottawa: Non-profit sector Research Initiative, 1998. Also available online at http://www.nsgvp.org

Dow, Dr. Warren. "The Voluntary Sector - Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges for the New Millennium" in Volunteer Vancouver Newsletter 1997. Also available online at http://www.vancouver.volunteer.ca/resources (click on "download articles")

Johnston, Ginette. Management of Volunteer Services in Canada: The Text (Second Edition). Johnstone Training and Consultations (JTC) Inc., 1999.

http://www.nald.ca/volman.htm
Community Literacy of Ontario's Volunteer Management Website