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Instructor: Janet Schulman & Diana Peterson-More

Course Description
This seminar will help you to learn effective tactics and strategies to recruit, manage and lead volunteers who are essential to achieving the mission of your organization. During these challenging economic times when you are working with constrained budgets to provide more services, it is essential to utilize unpaid volunteer staff to perform important tasks on every level of your Agency. It is critical to select, match and supervise volunteers to leverage their talents for the good of the organization and to provide volunteers with meaningful experiences that will sustain their interest and enthusiasm long term.

Participants in this seminar will leave the session with the following information and strategies:
--How to avoid politically sensitive pitfalls with volunteers
--How to select and match volunteers for specific tasks
--How to hold volunteers accountable
--How to get the best from your volunteer workforce
--How to sustain volunteers long term
--How to provide volunteers with meaningful roles for personal satisfaction

Instructor's Bio
Janet Schulman is an independent consultant in the nonprofit sector with more than 25 years of experience as the Executive Director of Big Sisters of Los Angeles and Special Olympics Southern California. She holds an M.S.W degree from Boston University and an M.P.A from UCLA. Janet has provided leadership in the areas of board development and training, organizational development, volunteer management, resource development and strategic planning to a wide variety of community-based organizations. She also has served as an Interim Executive Director to Agencies in transition.

Diana Peterson-More is a labor lawyer and corporate executive who left an LA-based Fortune 50 company to launch The Organizational Effectiveness Group in 1996. OEG focuses on aligning individual strengths and talents with organizational goals, and serves as an executive coach, a leadership trainer, a strategic planner and an advisor to boards and senior leaders in the for-profit, nonprofit, governmental and volunteer service worlds. Peterson-More received her BA from UCLA, her JD from Loyola Law School and serves as a guest lecturer at USC, Phillips Graduate Institute, and local community colleges.