Resources for Volunteer Managers

Developing our own interactive toolkit

This is the section of the website we'd love to see develop and grow. In many ways it's down to our own creativity and imagination together. What resources would you like to see trialled here? If you have any ideas let us know in the forum dedicated to AVM's future development.

Some ideas we've had to date are:

Sharing skills

Enabling AVM members to explain their skills and experience with a view to sharing these with others. Each AVM member can write about their skills and experience in their user profile which is only viewable by other AVM members. There's also a dedicated forum for members to discuss the sharing of skills, e.g. make an appeal for help in a particular area or discuss issues together.

Handbook

The idea behind the handbook is to create a collection of factsheets on given topics within volunteer management. Each factsheet can be commented on by any registered user and will be kept updated by AVM members.

Calendar

We'd like to keep better track of events that are relevant or potentially of interest to volunteer managers. These could be training events, conferences, campaigns, etc. All these events are open to the public.

We'd also like to offer AVM members the opportunity to publicise their own training events and offer discounted places to fellow AVM members.

You can see each of these resources which are currently in embryonic form. We're going to be developing them further in the near future and would welcome your comments, ideas and suggestions for new resources on our forum. You can also send us an email if you'd prefer.

Become a member and get more out

Although you can get an overview of these resources as a non-member, you need to be a member to add to them, e.g. add your skills and interests, add a venue, add an event, add a factsheet, etc.