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Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them
by Helen Little
from Panacea Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A Good Start but Rather Brief
  Helen Little has created a nice, although slim, book on how to manage volunteers. She breaks the task out into these sections:
  * creating a specific task with start and end
  * make sure task matches their interests
  * make sure task has value
  * write down instructions
  * provide deadline
  * have open time to task completion
  * provide all supplies for task
  * train the person
  * have comfortable work environment
  * follow up with the task
  * give... more info

• You don't need this book, I promise
  Unless you've never been a volunteer, never worked with a volunteer, and/or never heard of the word "volunteer", you do not need this book. First, this should cost about $5, as it is essentially an overgrown pamphlet. It contains great insights like "get name tags!" and "seat people with vision trouble near the front". Really?!?
  I have no idea why the other reviews were so high. Maybe those of us in non-profits are too nice... I don't know... but I guarantee that no one with previous experience in... more info

• A volunteer leader MUST READ
  Wow, what a concise and comprehensive approach to volunteer recruiting and development! I was looking for guidance to find and develop new volunteer leaders for several organizations. I've read good reviews about this book, so I gave it a shot. I was IMPRESSED! You can read through this book overnight and apply the practices the next day. I am already reaping the fruit. This was just what I needed.

• Sound advice
  "Volunteers - how to get them, how to keep them" offers sound and down-to-earth advice on what to do and how to do it when you want to run a volunteer-driven enterprise. The relatively short book (117p) packs in a good bunch of tips & tools. The book has no ambition in being an academic treatise on the subject.

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