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100 Workshop Topic Suggestions

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1. (F)resh, (R)eady, (E)mpowered, (E)ager Volunteers: Service Learning Resources
2. Agreements.
3. Applying Customer Service to your Volunteer Program Procedures
4. Asking for In-Kind Donations
5. Avoiding - or Surviving -- Burnout
6. Board Committee Training: Advocacy
7. Board Committee training: Diversity
8. Building Better Relationships with Volunteers
9. Building Coalition s To Share Resources
10. Business of Volunteer Management, The
11. Coaching
12. Community Service Volunteers and How to Work with Them
13. Community-Based Service-Learning Programs
14. Conflict Resolution
15. Consulting Skills for Volunteerism Innovations-Changing the
16. Creating one time volunteer opportunities for groups - Getting folks
17. Criminal Background Checks - What do they really mean?
18. Crisis Management
19. Customer Service - Are you ready when a volunteer calls?
20. Dealing with Difficult Volunteers
21. Dementia, Alzheimer's
22. Developing Volunteers in Leadership Positions
23. Disability Awareness
24. Disciplinary Methods With Children
25. Discipline and Dismissal
26. Effective Budgeting
27. Effective Multitasking
28. Emergency Preparedness
29. Empowerment for Managers of Volunteers
30. Evaluating Volunteers
31. Event Planning
32. Family Volunteering
33. First Aid/CPR
34. Forms, Forms, Forms -- what's required.
35. Fostering Diversity in your Volunteer Program
36. Fund Raising
37. Getting your Executive Director to make Volunteerism a Priority
38. Grant Writing
39. How Not to Drive your Volunteers Away
40. How Organizations can Better Utilize their Volunteer's Service
41. How To Fire a Volunteer and Live To Tell about It
42. How to Run Meetings
43. How to Train Volunteers
44. Influencing Decision Makers in Government
45. Internet: What's In It for You?
46. Interviewing...Getting to 'No.'
47. Intuition vs. Bias: Can They Be Distinguished?
48. Learning How To Document.
49. Let's Talk Team!
50. Making Volunteer Positions Meaningful
51. Media Relations
52. Networking-"The Art of Small Talk"
53. One Minute  Volunteer Manager
54. Organizations and Corporate Volunteers
55. Organizing Large Group Projects
56. Outcomes Evaluation
57. Paradigm Communities as Places of Learning: Developing Effective
58. Participants to Decision Makers: Building Partnerships that Work: Nonprofit
59. Personal Organization Skills
60. Planning for Volunteer Involvement
61. Policy Development for Volunteer Centers
62. Presenting Volunteer Community Services Opportunities
63. Public Speaking - Get the words out about your program.
64. Recognition - Sharing Ideas for Individuals and Groups.
65. Recognition Show 'n' Tell
66. Recognizing Volunteers Right from the Start
67. Record keeping
68. Recruiting for Nursing Homes
69. Recruiting Student Interns
70. Recruiting Today's Volunteers
71. Recruitment Is the Third Step.
72. References - What do you require and what tools are you using?
73. Retention and Recognition
74. Retiree Volunteers
75. Risk Management for the Volunteer Program
76. Screening - Beyond Police Checks
77. Screening Out Vs. Screening IN
78. Self-care for the Volunteer Program Manager
79. Service Awards for Volunteers
80. Seven Habits of Highly Successful Volunteer Program Managers
81. Special Event Volunteers
82. Staff Role in Successful Volunteer Program Operation
83. Staff-Volunteer Relations
84. Taming Your Difficult Boss
85. Time Management
86. Tips for Building Community Partnerships in Service Learning.
87. Train the Trainer
88. Values, Ethics an Accountability
89. Volunteer Job Design
90. Volunteer Management 101: Comprehensive Seminar
91. Volunteer Recruitment Techniques
92. Volunteer Screening (liabilities, tools, policies)
93. Volunteers Evaluate our Programs
94. Why Do I Need a Smallpox Shot? The Unique Needs of Health Care Volunteers
95. Working with Challenging People - Strategies to Practice.
96. Working with Older Adult Volunteers
97. Working with your Local Volunteer Center
98. Working with Youth
99. Writing Volunteer Service Descriptions and Agency/Volunteer
100. Your Career and Welcome to It

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