As the need for nonprofit services increase and financial resources remain tight, many organizations are actively engaging passionate, highly skilled volunteers to provide everything from technical support and marketing to fundraising and strategic planning services–pro bono.
Even if your board members are successful in recruiting pro bono resources, this thought-provoking session will provide you with tips and tools for building an integrated approach to citizen engagement that will support your organization’s mission and strategic goals.
Participants will:
• Review skills-based volunteer trends and potential
• Identify mission specific skills-based volunteer projects
• Discover the difference between traditional volunteer engagement and skills-based volunteer engagement
• Identify the five principles that make skills-based volunteering work
• Create project management plans
• Examine case studies that incorporate skills-based program development and project management concepts
