Keeping Volunteers

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by Steve McCurley and Rick Lynch

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Attracting suitable volunteers to your organisation is in itself a challenge, but once you've found the right people, how do your hold on to them?

Many organisations focus too strongly on finding volunteers and not enough on keeping them, leading to the costly and time-consuming process of having to replace those who leave.

Keeping Volunteers provides a comprehensive overview of this issue. It looks at reasons why volunteers become dissatisfied and presents tries and tested methods that can help to improve volunteer commitment and make volunteering more fulfilling.

Chapters include:
- Welcoming volunteers to the team
- Making volunteers feel special
- Instilling organisational values in volunteers
- Sustaining retention along the volunteer life cycle
- Handling volunteer burnout

Written in a practical and easy-to-read style, Keeping Volunteers is an essential resource for managers of volunteer programmes and an invaluable companion to recruiting volunteers.

'An indispensable guide, grounf in research, on what makes volunteers tick and how to keep yours super-motivated.'
Fraser Dyer, Work Consultant at My Working Life
Co-author of Recruiting Volunteers