This manual presents guidelines for planning, monitoring, and controlling the development and operation of volunteer assistance programs. The materials included address questions related to both the process of establishing a volunteer program and the administration of a volunteer management system. The manual is not intended to provide a blueprint…

This document was written as a functional guide for those responsible for coordinating volunteers in education and provides the background information needed for setting up, running, and evaluating a volunteer program. Ten chapters cover the procedures for recruitment and promotion, interviewing and placement, orientation, and training of…

Educational volunteer management in recent years has emerged as a highly skilled and specialized profession that is undergoing rapid expansion. Full time staff members have been employed by some boards of education to carry out the specialized management requirements of volunteer recruiting, training, evaluating, assigning, and supervising. A…