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Volunteer Management Educational Opportunities

Strengthen your skills and build a thriving volunteer program with Volunteer Fairfax’s professional development opportunities. Our webinars explore practical strategies for recruiting and engaging volunteers, demonstrating their impact, and creating meaningful service opportunities.

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Professional Development/Volunteer Management Skills

We have volunteer management professional development opportunities that can help your organization more effectively manage volunteers for your organization.

Current Nonprofit Training Topics

Boot Camps

  • Volunteer Manager Bootcamp, In-Person, (3 hours)
  • Volunteer Manager Bootcamp Lite, on-line  (1 hour)

Other Topics (one hour, in-person or via webinar)

  • Art of Managing Up for Volunteer Managers
  • At the End of the Day: The Importance of Reflection in Volunteer Engagement
  • The Benefits of Failure in Volunteer Management
  • Building Ambassadors: Teaching Your Volunteers the Elevator Speech
  • Diagnosis Imposter Syndrome: Your Leadership of Volunteers is Legit!
  • Do Volunteers Who Ghost Scare You the Most? (Vol Recruitment and Retention)
  • Empowering Volunteers to Lead
  • From Overwhelmed to Organized: Priority Setting Tools for Volunteer Managers
  • Hidden Biases in Volunteer Management
  • Keeping Your Volunteer Program Nonpartisan
  • Making Every Minute Count: Time Management for Volunteer Engagement  Professionals
  • Opportunity Knocks? Hosting Student Interns
  • Secrets to Successful Meetings
  • Showing Volunteer Impact
  • Starting Smart: The Basics of Volunteer Recruitment
  • Turning Volunteers into Donors
  • The Volunteer Manager’s Essentials: Policies, Documents, Data (30-minutes)
  • Volunteer Recruitment at Festivals, Fairs and Other Community Events
  • Words Matter – Writing Powerful Volunteer Recruitment Messages
  • Working with Volunteers of Every Generation

If you would like to be notified about upcoming professional development opportunities, contact Susan Sanow.  Your information will be added to our mailing list.

Thanks to support from our foundation and corporate communities, all webinars are complimentary. 

All of our workshops and webinars are also available to be tailored to your specific organization/event.  Contact Susan Sanow for a conversation about content, speaking fees and references.

Trainings offered by Volunteer Fairfax may be used to meet the requirements for applying for or renewing the Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA) credential.  One Professional Development Unit (PDU) is awarded for each 50-60 minute session or contact hour in topics related to volunteer resources management.  For more details about the CVA program and renewal requirements, visit www.CVAcert.org or email info@CVAcert.org