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VOLUNTEER DIRECTORS’ CONFERENCE
Thursday, February 9, 8:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m.
at The Artillery Barracks, 600 East Hatheway Road l Vancouver, Washington 98661 (On the Fort Vancouver Historic Reserve.)
Early bird (through Jan 31st) $55 for Nonprofit Network & DVPA Members, $65 Regular
Feb 1 & later prices go up $10 more
REGISTER ONLINE HERE or to mail in your payment, look Here for directions.
Who should attend?
People in the nonprofit, government, or education fields who work with volunteers and plan, manage or direct volunteer programs.
Session One
The Role of the Volunteer: Supplement, Support, Supplant
What’s It To Be?
Shifts in how people wish to give voluntary service are changing the paradigm of volunteering. This workshop explores the issue of the role of the volunteer in the second decade of the 21st century. Begin by examining the new forms volunteering is taking; social change, serendipity, and entrepreneurial. Review the role of episodic volunteering.
Define the three kinds of volunteering—supplementing, supporting, or supplanting. Participants then create new positions to attract new volunteers and adjust current positions to be more attractive. Special attention is directed toward the legalities of supplanting paid staff with volunteer efforts. It is possible!
Join your colleagues for an informative and interactive workshop. Go home with new positions to attract new types of people.
Nancy Macduff
Nancy Macduff is a respected specialist, trainer, and consultant in the field of volunteer management. Her varied and extensive background includes fifteen years as Executive Director of a nonprofit organization and six years managing community outreach and volunteers in a government agency. She has ought college and university classes on the management of volunteer programs for Washington State University Concordia College, Lewis and Clark College and Portland State University.
Nancy is a long time member of the Association for Volunteer Administration, the Association for Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action, the World Futurist Society and the American Association of Adult and Continuing Educators. She is author of numerous books and chapters in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, The Volunteer Management Handbook, and Managing Volunteer Diversity. She has authored numerous articles in magazines and scholarly journals.
Nancy’s clients include United Nations Volunteering, Points of Light Foundation, American Symphony Orchestra League, U.S. Dept. of Defense, Michigan Dept. of Social Services, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boeing, Washington Education Association, AmeriCorps and many more.
Nancy is well known for workshops that are both fun and practical – not
‘canned’ – and wins high praise from attendees coast-to-coast.
Session Two
Managing Generational Diversity
Or
“I Can’t Work With These People, They Just don’t Get it!”
Session Description:
The differences between the generations are becoming more evident as the Baby Boomers begin to retire and the Trophy Generation and Generation Next enter the work place and the volunteer forces. In this session you will learn about what creates some of the differences as well as learn about the similarities so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that can cause discourse in any organization, costing valuable time and resources as well as gain insights into how to help those you work with understand one another. Learn how to get the most out of volunteers or employees of any generation while avoiding the conflicts that can lead to low morale, reduced productivity high turn-over or even employment liability.
Victoria Nolan, ARM, CSP
Risk and Benefits Manager, Clean Water Services, Hillsboro, Oregon
Victoria has served as the Risk and Benefits Manager for Clean Water Services since 1998. Clean Water Services is a public entity serving the urban areas of Washington County, Oregon through a sanitary and storm water collection and treatment utility, watershed management, restoration and water resource services. At Clean Water Services Victoria manages the risk and employee benefits program including safety and loss prevention programs, insured and self-insured programs for property, liability, workers’ compensation and employee benefits. Prior to becoming Risk and Benefits manager Victoria spent time as the District’s Loss Prevention Coordinator as well as an industrial Safety Engineer with Tektronix. Victoria is an active member of several professional organizations such as the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the Public Risk and Insurance Management Association (PRIMA) and The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as teaching Associate of Risk Management (ARM) courses and speaking on various Risk Management, Safety and Benefit topics at various local, regional and national conferences.
Eva LaBonte, ARM, MS
Risk and Benefits Analyst, Clean Water Services, Hillsboro Oregon
Eva LaBonte has served as the Risk & Benefits Analyst at Clean Water Services in Hillsboro, Oregon for over 8 years, where she handles workers’ compensation, employee benefits, wellness program, ergonomics and works with property, liability and employment claims management. Previously, she worked for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue in Beaverton, Oregon, where she managed employment practices, employee benefits, claims management and workers’ compensation along with several Human Resources functions including employee relations, training and policy development.
Eva earned her Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Business Management and Psychology at Pacific University, and then earned a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Portland State University. She has completed her Associate in Risk Management, and she is an instructor for the ARM Risk Assessment course. Eva has previously served as the President of the Oregon RIMS chapter and is currently the Communications Chair.
Session Three
Funding Volunteer Programs… Questions and Answers with Special Guests from the Philanthropic Community!
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This annual conference is a partnership of the Nonprofit Network SWWA, Directors of Volunteer Management Association, Human Services Council Volunteer Connection Program. With support of the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette.
