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This is the master database of all items in the Archive, including the books, journal articles and Timeline items referenced elsewhere on this website. This database is searchable by title, author, type, and topic. Special tags also exist for Research, Non-US/International items, and documents specifically related to the history of the Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA). All PDF documents may be downloaded for free. If you identify errors, please contact us immediately so we can make the necessary corrections.
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1976 | The Effective Management of Volunteer Programs A landmark book on the application of management principles to administration of volunteer programs. |
Volunteer Management Associates | Marlene Wilson | Book | Download | |
1993 | Helping You Is Helping Me: How a New Breed of Volunteers Can Make a Difference |
Servant Publications | Virgil Gulker, Ken Wilson | Book | Download | |
2002 | The Volunteer Recruitment Book The book first shows how to design the best assignments for volunteers as the initial step to recruit the most qualified people. What follows is a wealth of information on topics ranging from how your organization's image affects your success in recruitment to where to look for new volunteers, including your own backyard. The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book also offers a whole chapter on membership development for all-volunteer organizations, including how to get current members "off the rolls and on their feet." The Appendix,"Outreach in Cyberspace," explains the Internet as a powerful recruitment tool. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
1981 | Survival Skills for Managers |
Volunteer Management Associates | Marlene Wilson | Book | Download | |
2008 | Visionary Leadership in Volunteer Programs: Insight and Inspiration from the Speeches of Marlene Wilson Marlene Wilson moves from the hows to the whys of leading volunteer programs. She urges all who lead volunteers to move beyond thinking of themselves as managers to thinking of themselves as leaders—those who develop vision for volunteer programs and impart that vision throughout an organization. Includes16 of her most popular presentations from 1974 to 1999. |
Energize | Marlene Wilson | Book | Download | |
2003 | Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Recordkeeping Systems, 21st Century Edition A step-by-step guide to the basic elements of a volunteer recordkeeping system. Includes the why and how of application forms, volunteer data files, assignment records, time and activity reports - for individual volunteers, groups, and off-site service, too. Lots of sample forms, ideas for documenting hard-to-track activities, and ways to demonstrate the work you do in managing volunteer involvement. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis, Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell | Book | Download | |
1974 | Volunteerism: An Emerging Profession |
The American Lecture Series in Social and Rehabilitation Psychology, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher | John G. Cull, Richard E. Hardy | Book | Download | |
1999 | Focus on Volunteering KOPY KIT® Contains 117 formatted, ready-to-print and copy pages, each about a specific volunteering subject such as working with volunteers, the history of volunteering, and trends in volunteerism. The KOPY KIT also includes a section of ready-to-use graphics including "thank you" and "we miss you" letters, certificates and awards, recruitment flyers and even greeting cards. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
1994 | How To Find The Ideal Volunteers: Target Your Recruiting The second booklet in PROVOL's Volunteer Management Made Easy Series, which includes: Research, Recruit, Retain, and Recognize. This booklet on recruiting advises us to forget outdated perceptions of volunteers and, then, presents a process of recruiting for skills and talents necessary to meet our agencies' needs in a timely and effective manner. |
PROVOL, Mesa, AZ | Jim Bottorf, Judy Bottorf, Maggie King | Book | Download | |
1994 | Everything You Need To Do Before You Begin To Recruit: Research The first booklet in PROVOL's Volunteer Management Made Easy Series, which includes: Research, Recruit, Retain, and Recognize. This booklet on Research covers the work to be done before that new volunteer walks through the door for the first time, even when the pressure to recruit new volunteers can be pretty intense. |
PROVOL, Mess, AZ | Jim Bottorf, Judy Bottorf, Maggie King | Book | Download | |
1999 | What We Learned (the Hard Way) about Supervising Volunteers Packed with the advice, wisdom, and experience of over 85 real-life, on-the-job supervisors of volunteers, this guide offers a crystal clear analysis of what works and what doesn't in supervision. It also includes comments from volunteers about what they need from those who supervise them, as well as excerpts from classic articles and books by experts in the field and a self-assessment survey covering the attitudes and actions necessary to be an effective supervisor. |
Energize | Jarene Frances Lee | Book | Download | |
2005 | By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition By the People remains the only book available presenting the full scope and depth of volunteer activity throughout three centuries of American history. Originally published in 1978, Susan Ellis and Katie Campbell reissued this revised New Century Edition in 2005. The book challenges misunderstandings about the role of volunteers and illuminates the impact of volunteers throughout history. |
Energize | Susan J. Ellis, Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell | Book | Download | |
2003 | Building Staff Volunteer Relations Helps employees and volunteers work together successfully by exploring the reasons for conflict between volunteers and employees. Scheier eases the all-too-common stresses of this relationship with a step-by-step process for analyzing tasks and work preferences for both paid and unpaid staff. Offers a great number of creative and practical solutions. Contains lots of useful planning guides. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
2009 | Strategic Volunteer Engagement: A Guide for Nonprofit and Public Sector Leaders |
RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, University of Texas at Austin | Sarah Jane Rehnborg | Book | Download | |
1991 | Children As Volunteers: Preparing for Community Service How to incorporate children into an adult volunteer program and find creative ways to use children's fresh perspectives. Includes examples of actual volunteer projects accomplished by youngsters, models of child-adult teams and tips on family volunteering. Learn how to recruit, train and design assignments for volunteers under the age of 14. |
Energize | Katherine H. (Noyes) Campbell, Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
2000 | Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles: A Guide for Dream-Chasers and Dream-Catchers Making Dreams Come True without Money, Might or Miracles caps Ivan Scheier's long career as philosopher, provocateur, and conscience of the volunteer field. He urges us all to nurture dreams--our own and those of others. But this is also a practical, you-can-do-it guidebook for activist volunteers and their mentors, showing what dreamers and "Dream-Catchers" must do to bring dreams to life; how to look beyond money as a need, obstacle or trap; ways to get past barriers, bigots, and anchors; how to create a dream-friendly environment; and what makes dreams die...and what makes them live. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
1995 | Utilizing All Your Resources: Individuls With and Without Disabilities Volunteering Together |
Institute for Community Inclusion | Cheska Komissar, Debra Hart, Robin Friedlander | Book | Download | |
1992 | When Everyone's a Volunteer: The Effective Functioning of All-Volunteer Groups Provides an innovative framework for successfully leading an all-volunteer effort, whether it's a service club, community group, PTA, or religious congregation. Scheier challenges conventional wisdom about boards, fundraising, and membership development when applied to grassroots volunteer efforts. A highlight of the book is a collection of easy-to-conduct group interaction exercises. |
Energize | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
2003 | Rants and Rave Anthology, The Essays written by leading authors in the volunteer world in 2002 about "what was on their mind." Authors included are: Cara Blank, Susan J. Ellis, Melissa Eystad, Andy Fryar, Linda L. Graff, Stephen McCurley, Ivan H. Scheier, Betty Stallings, Sue Vineyard and Bill Wittich. |
Energize, Inc. | Book | Download | ||
1978 | The New Volunteerism |
Schenkman Publishing | Barbara Feinstein, Catherine Cavanaugh | Book | Download | |
2002 | Church Puzzle Game An interactive group activity for religious leaders for analyzing how their congregations work, conducting an organizational analysis of their organization, and identifying areas that deserve further attention. Though The Church Puzzle Game uses the word ‘‘church” in its title and instructions, the content of the Game was written with the intention to help any faith community, religious body, or house of worship. |
Energize, Inc. | Susan J. Ellis | Book | Download | |
1993 | The Power and Potential of Youth in Service to Communities |
Minnesota Office of Volunteer Services | Book | Download | ||
1985 | The Volunteer Organization Handbook |
Center for Volunteer Development Cooperative Extension | Marie Arnot, Lee J. Cary, Mary Jean Houde | Book | Download | |
1967 | Volunteers in Community Service |
The North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations | Guion Griffis Johnson | Book | Download | |
1985 | Motivating Volunteers |
Vancouver Volunteer Centre | Larry F. Moore | Book | Download | |
1990 | Building Credibility with the Powers That Be |
Partners Plus | Gail Moore, Marilyn MacKenzie | Book | Download | |
1993 | Passionate Volunteers |
Conversations Press | Jeanne H. Bradner | Book | Download | |
1985 | You Can Teach Others: A Professional Approach to Volunteer Training |
Alabama Office of Voluntary Citizen Participatio | Ida Rush George | Book | Download | |
1995 | The Great Trainer's Guide |
Heritage Arts Publishing | Sue Vineyard | Book | Download | |
1993 | Megatrends and Volunteerism |
Heritage Arts Publishing | Sue Vineyard | Book | Download | |
2008 | Volunteer Training: A Short Course (PART 3) |
Nancy Macduff | Book | Download | ||
2008 | Volunteer Training: A Short Course (PART 2) |
Nancy Macduff | Book | Download | ||
1987 | 101 Ways to Raise Resources Similar to the previously published 101 Ideas for Volunteer Programs, this book presents hundreds of ideas and thoughts, often in the form of lists, about fundraising (and friend-raising), all collected by Steve McCurley and Sue Vineyard, experts in volunteer engagement. |
Heritage Arts Publishing | Sue Vineyard, Steve McCurley | Book | Download | |
1991 | Secrets of Motivation: How to Get & Keep Volunteers & Paid Staff |
Heritage Arts Publishing | Sue Vineyard | Book | Download | |
2008 | Volunteer Training: A Short Course (PART 1) |
MBA Publishing, Walla Walla, WA | Nancy Macduff | Book | Download | |
1995 | Revolution of the Heart |
Riverhead Books | Bill Shore | Book | Download | |
1996 | New Competencies for Volunteer Administrators |
Heritage Arts | Sue Vineyard | Book | Download | |
1989 | Volunteers in Action |
The Foundation Center | Brian O'Connell, Ann Brown O'Connell | Book | Download | |
1989 | Handbook for Auxiliary and Volunteer Leaders |
PANPHA | Book | Download | ||
1996 | Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers (Manual) |
Building Better Skills | Betty B. Stallings | Book | Download | |
1971 | People Helping People |
U.S. News and World Report | Book | Download | ||
1980's ? | A Systems Approach to the Planning and Development of Effective Volunteer Programs |
State of Florida Office of Voluntarism | Book | Download | ||
1997 | Resource Kit for Managers of Volunteers The purpose of this Resource Kit was to provide leaders and managers of volunteers with a succinct, practical guide to the fundamentals of developing a volunteer program. It has lots of sample forms. This guide covers the 3 R's of Volunteer Management: READY?- RECRUIT and RETAIN, and an appendix which includes a section for local resource information on volunteering and an extensive annotated bibliography on books, videos, and publications in the field. |
The Volunteerism Project | Betty B. Stallings | Book | Download | |
1977 | People Approach: 9 New Strategies for Citizen Volunteer Involvement |
National Information Center on Volunteerism | Ivan H. Scheier | Book | Download | |
1972 | Volunteers for People in Need |
International Association of Rehabilitation Facilities | Book | Download | ||
1999 | All Hands on Board |
National Center for Nonprofit Boards | Jan Masaoka | Book | Download | |
1988 | Teen Power: How to Develop a Teen Volunteer Program |
Volunteer Centre of Metropolitan Toronto | Claire Lloyd | Book | Download | |
1989 | Essential Volunteer Management The 1989 edition of Steve McCurley and Rick Lynch's basic text on operating all facets of volunteer involvement. |
VM Systems | Steve McCurley, Rick Lynch | Book | Download | |
1989 | Partners for Action: The Roles of Key Volunteers |
Cooperative Extension System and the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sara M. Steele, Cathaleen Finley, Carol A. Edgerton | Book | Download | |
2000 | A Roadmap to Managing Volunteer Management Systems |
National Health Council, Inc. | Claudia Kuric, Sharon Koll | Book | Download |