The New Volunteerism Project

The Archival Collection of
Ivan Henry Scheier

Section XX

The DOVIA Exchange

June 1999

Local Professional Associations (DOVIAs)
Prepared by Ivan Scheier
August 2000

Background
There are approximately 75 pages in this packet, largely through the courtesy of Katie Noyes Campbell, Executive Director of AVA, who identified, copied and returned to me, requested sections of an entire shelf of material in this area, which I donated to AVA in 1995 or 96.  My guess is this packet is about 10% of the total materiel in this area, authored by me, 1984-96.

Section A
Fact Sheet
I trust this "Fact Sheet" is self-explanatory and hope there is more recent information of this type - or that is can be developed.

Section B
Activating Your Local DOVIA
5 pages, 1984
An early how-to-do-it concentrating on membership incentives.

Section C
How to Start or Strengthen
Handbook on How to Start of Strengthen a DOVIA, DOVS, LOVE, or Association by any of a hundred other names.  About 60 pages, 1987, pretty rough and ready, for limited circulation, but many of the principles will still apply.

Section D
The DOVIA Exhange
A small sample of the approximately 50 "DOVIA Exchange" newsletters published four or six time yearly over the years 1984-95.  Target audience was leadership and membership of local professional associations.  The later editions done were part of the Grapevine newsletter, and have been included below.

1993	May/Jun	Doing DOVIA Right - A Success Practice Checklist
1993	Jul/Aug	How to Ruin DOVIA (In Ten Easy Steps)
1993	Sep/Oct	Competing When We Should Cooperate
1993	Nov/Dec	Checklist Chuckles
1994	Jan/Feb	Diversity - Networking - Organizing a DOVIA
1994	Mar/Apr	MAVD - NOVA - Networking with Your Neighbors
1994	May/Jun	Five Steps to Vision
1994	Jul/Aug	Creative Concepts for DOVIA: A Free Association
1994	Sep/Oct	DOVIA Day Committee, ICVA
1994	Nov/Dec	Time Was and Time Will Be... And Where We've Been
1995	Jan/Feb	DOVIA Day In LA - An Historic First
1995	Mar/Apr	Building the Partnership
1995	May/Jun	Making Membership Meaningful
1995	Jul/Aug	A Productive Partnership
1995	Sep/Oct	Where Are The Associations
1995	Nov/Dec	Reaching Out - Simplicity and Sophistication - Farewell

Section E
Doing DOVIA Right
Doing DOVIA Right - A Success Practice Checklist"
One page, 1993.  I deeply regret no long having statistics we gathered on frequency of usage and "norms" for this checklist.