Training Materials | Get Involved! Resource Clearinghouse

Learn more about best practices in volunteer recruitment and engagement, and how to get the results you need.

NOTE: These are examples from public libraries and should be reviewed and modified to ensure fit with local policies and culture.

Title	Keyword	Tags	Year
Target Market Success Story: Teen Volunteer This 5 minute success story is an interview with a library teen volunteer coordinator and one of her awesome teen volunteers talking about what makes… more	Millennials	Teen	2015
Disability Etiquette: Tips on Interacting with People with Disabilities A pamphlet created by the United Spinal Association.	Staff Training	disabilities, diversity, equity, inclusion	2015
Target Market Success Story: Volunteers with Full Time Jobs Ever wonder how and why someone with a full time job would be willing and able to volunteer at the library? Here's a 5 minute video clip of one… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers		2015
Virtual Volunteer - 4 minute interview This 4 minute interview is with a volunteer who couldn't come to the library to volunteer, but still wanted to help with her high level social… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training	virtual volunteer	2015
Today's Volunteer: The Shift from Management to Engagement Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (9.5 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training		2015
Millenials Want to Make a Serious Impact This blog post from Catchafire.org describes the Millenial generation -- the 80 million born between 1980 and 2000 -- and their interest in… more	Millennials	Millenials	2014
Building Better Library Volunteer Programs - Australia This paper was written by Dr. Susie Prestney, then Manager, Castlemaine Library, Goldfields Library Corporation, Australia following her 2014 grant-… more	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers	Prestney, Lehn, Get Involved, Australia	2014
Millennials Want To Make a Serious Impact and You Can Help Insights into how to engage the Millennial Generation as volunteers and donors, and how you might be turning them off.	Volunteer Recruitment, Millennials	Millennials, Recruitment	2014
Homework Tutor Training - Huntington Beach Powerpoint used by Huntington Beach Public Library to train their volunteer Homework Help Tutors.	Job Specific Volunteer Training	tutor mentor homework help	2014
ESL Conversation Circles - Training Overview This Prezi slide presentation was developed to help train volunteer ESL Conversation group facilitators. (I found it easier to view on FIrefox than… more	Job Specific Volunteer Training	ESL conversation circle, ESL	2013
In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity This New York Times article provides an excellent example of a company providing their skilled volunteers to address the needs of a volunteer… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers	skilled, Skilled Volunteers	2013
The Importance of Using and Understanding Background Check Screening This archived webinar was produced by "AL!VE" -- the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement.	Volunteer Screening / Interviewing, Capacity Building	background checks, screening volunteers	2013
How to Design Volunteer Training that Helps (Not Hurts) Learning A brief article that provides principles of learning theory in usable form to the design of volunteer training.	Capacity Building, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Staff Training, Volunteer Orientation	Training, orientation	2013
Developing Training Programs for Volunteers The Who, What, How and Why of designing training programs for volunteers from the Community Toolbox.	Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	Training volunteer training	2013
Nonprofit Volunteers: Minimizing the Risk Minimizing legal exposure is important because volunteers’ acts are generally imputed to the nonprofit organization. Specific, written volunteer… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training	Risk Management	2013
Volunteer Orientation - Media Center - Huntington Beach, CA Powerpoint slides used in orientation of Huntington Beach Public Library's Media Center volunteers.	Materials Handling, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	Shelving	2012
Successful Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Baby Boomers & Generations that Follow This is a one hour archived webinar presented by Carla Lehn in February, 2012. Presenter slides and handouts are available at the link below. Do you… more	Volunteer Recruitment, Baby Boomers, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, On-line Volunteer Recruitment	Volunteer Recruitment, Skilled Volunteers, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials	2012
"Applying for a Job Online" Powerpoint Training - Huntington Beach This powerpoint presentation was created for a high skilled volunteer to deliver training to library patrons on "Applying for Job Online."	Job / Employment Coach, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Job Specific Volunteer Training	job coach, Training	2012
"E-mail Basics" Powerpoint Training - Huntington Beach This powerpoint presentation was created for a high skilled volunteer to deliver training to library patrons on "E-Mail Basics."	Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Job Specific Volunteer Training	tech coach, Training	2012
Until Tuesday - Book to Action Project- Lodi, CA As part of an LSTA grant, Lodi Public Library designed a Book to Action project around the book "Until Tuesday" based on the true story of… more	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers	Book to action, Video, book discussion, community service	2012