Resources - Volunteers

Booklet designed to help nonprofit organizations better manage volunteers. The content includes:

• Whit is Volunteer Liability?
• Volunteer Recruitment, Screening & Selection
• Training, Supervising and Disciplining Volunteers
• Insuring Volunteers and Volunteer Actions
• The Reward of Managing Risks

14-page, PDF, 1.5 MB

This Act promotes volunteer programs and community partnerships for the benefit ot he national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-105publ242/pdf/PLAW-105publ242.pdf

Sample Friends Volunteer Agreement

Generic Volunteer Agreement, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Sample-Friends-Volunteer-Agreement-1-1.docx

Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Agreement, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Tennessee-Friends-Volunteer-Agreement-2-1.pdf

The Community Partnerships Implementation Team has finalized the Volunteer and Partner Involvement in the National Wildlife Refuge System report. The report was made available November of 2013.

44-pages, PDF, 10.7 MB

To recruit volunteers the Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge have created:

• Volunteer Interest Profile
  • Potential Volunteer contact information, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Volunteer-Interest-Profile-2013-Side-1.pdf
  • Description of volunteer opportunities, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Volunteer-Interest-Profile-2013-Side-2.pdf
• Volunteer outreach brochure, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Volunteer-Interest-Profile-trifold.pdf

Working with Volunteers, Friends Organizations, and Community Partnerships contains policy, practical advice and case studies to improve how how you can work with community partners and cooperators. It assembles in one place policies, guidance, references and best proactices along with helpful hints not typically found in FWS policy manuals.