Exclusive AL!VE Member benefit!  If you are an AL!VE individual member and meet the qualifications, your agency can be granted access to Samaritan's #1 Rated Volunteer Management Software from which they can post opportunities to their page on VolunteerNow.com.  Opportunities are also cross-posted on AllForGood.org as well as custom sites powered by Samaritan for their customers. Volunteers can return to any page on the Samaritan network to check their schedules, report hours and take surveys. Hours recorded on VolunteerNow.com can be automatically shared with RewardVolunteers.coop, a no-obligation recognition portal operated by the Cabot Creamery Cooperative.  To learn more about this generous free software offer exclusively for AL!VE members, visit our webpage.
 

Help us find a universal hashtag for our profession!
 
If you are a volunteer manager, you may have noticed that we use a bewildering array of hashtags to describe our profession. Two CVAs, Liza Dyer and Elisa Kosarin (also an AL!VE member), decided to do something about this confusing slew of options. They reached out to  leading influencers in the field and asked them to help identify a universal hashtag for our profession.
 
Now, we are asking you, our volunteer manager colleagues, to help us narrow down the field and select one universal hashtag that we may all use when sharing information through Twitter or other social media.
 
Please take a moment to click on this link and vote on the hashtags. We have 18 possible choices (our influencers are a creative bunch). Vote for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place choices. The survey remains open until Friday, September 2.
 
The winner of the universal hashtag vote will be announced through Liza and Elisa's Twitter accounts, @lizaface and @THNonprofit, through AL!VE, and on the TwentyHats.com website on Tuesday, September 6.
 
Click here to vote:
 
Many thanks and happy voting!

Volunteer Manager Burnout research project

Melissa A. Heinlein Storti, Ph.D., MA, MS, CAVS asked AL!VE members to respond to a survey last year for research on her doctorate about volunteer manager burnout.  Thank you to those who responded!

Melissa has produced an executive summary about her research.  You can view the summary here, or on our website resource page.

Congratulations and thank you to Melissa for her efforts on this topic!

 

Volunteer Management  One job.  Many hats.
Now is a great time to plan for OUR day, November 5!  Celebration and recognition breakfast?  Governor's Proclamation?  News release? Lots of terrific ideas on the IVM Day website.

From the Members of the Global IVMDay Committee  -

Aside from being a theme that we hope many people can have some fun with, it also reflects the multi-dimensional skill base that VM’s have to develop to be truly effective in their roles.
Further, it speaks a lot about how volunteer leadership is such a critical part of so many spheres of society.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be developing and releasing social media memes, posters and other tools that you can use to start to promote the day to your members and peers, but in the meantime, simply “Get Excited!”
Thanks again for all your support!

 

Do you deal with the media in your volunteer program? 
True or false: I should expect to review a story about my organization before it is published.
Not sure how to respond or exactly how to answer a question?  Be pro-active and check out these 'true or false' tips at a great blog post by Kivi's NonProfit Communications Blog.

Update!   We are pleased to report that the House Appropriations Committee has proposed level funding for SHIP for FY17.  More information can be found on the NCOA (National Council on Aging) website.

It's back!  AL!VE is pleased to partner again with Better Impact to provide another professional development opportunity.  A hybrid conference means the presenters come to you via live streaming.  You meet locally with your colleagues and interact virtually with the presenters.



This year's Hybrid Conference will be streamed from the Orlando, Florida area on September 12 Mountain time, September 13 Pacific time, and September 14 Central and Eastern. Conference presenters for the hybrid and in-person conference include Rob Jackson, Tobi Johnson, Elisa Kosarin, and Neal McCord.

For more information and to register, visit the Hybrid Conference site.

Sorry, due to low turnout the live conference has been cancelled.

You can take your CVA exam this year at AL!VE's & Better Impact conference in Orlando this September.  Attend the conference and take the exam as part of your session choices, or take the exam only (no charge to take the test, but you must have registered with CCVA first).  Either way, stay to network with your colleagues and attend our evening reception!  It's not too late to start studying!  
Receive a $35 discount on your CVA Professional Certification as an AL!VE member.

If you are involved in a leadership role in your local volunteer managers association, group, or organization, AL!VE has planned quarterly networking  roundtables.  Designed specifically for discussing topics and ideas related to these groups.  The next two topics are:
If you are an AL!VE Group member, we will be notifying you about these networking events soon.  Or, go to our claendar and sign up!  Have an idea for a networking topic?  Let us know.  We'd love to hear your ideas!

The views and advice posted by subscribers, as well as any links or other information, are not necessarily endorsed by CyberVPM or any of the organizations which subscribers represent. Individual posts are entirely the views and advice of the subscriber.

Sincere and warm thanks to Meghan Kaskoun, CVA (and longtime AL!VE member) as a founding member of CyberVPM and longtime list-serve owner and moderator.  We are all so very grateful for her stewardship of this useful networking and information resource. 

If you'd like to be a part of the CyberVPM list serve, send an email to cybervpm-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you'd like to be part of the moderator group, send an email to manager@volunteeralive.org

 

Welcome to our new Group Member, Volunteer Knoxville!  Volunteer Knoxville is a regional volunteer center that connects volunteers to community organizations in the 25 Upper East Tennessee counties. The Partner Program equips community organizations with the tools needed to successfully engage volunteers. On an annual basis, community organizations renew their partnership and gain access to volunteer management resources.  To learn more about Volunteer Knoxville, visit their website.

New Individual Members since May of 2016:

arol	Ayars		Individual	05/05/16
Janis	Benn		Individual	05/05/16
Tricia	Miller	Girls on the Run NE Ohio	Individual	05/17/16
SHAUNIELLE	MOSLEY	DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS	Individual	05/19/16
Jeff	Pal	Anderson Animal Shelter	Individual	05/20/16
Lillian	Nelson		Individual	05/25/16
Rebecca	Hermann	Vista Maria	Individual	06/16/16
Jessica	Miles		Individual	06/17/16
Melissa	Palmer	bay.org	Individual	06/21/16
Andrea	Hill	Communities in Schools of Tennessee at Memphis	Individual	06/27/16
Ron	Zluticky	Johnson County Library	Individual	06/27/16
Patti	Jacques	Gifts For All God's Children	Individual	06/28/16
Gigi	Rolfes	Volunteer Macon	Individual	06/28/16
Kim	Soto	San Diego Humane Society	Individual	07/02/16
Mary Beth	Harrington	501C3	Individual	07/14/16
Alana	Knoppow	Hospice of Michigan	Individual	07/14/16
Lauren	Miheli	The Nature Conservancy	Individual	07/14/16
Megan	Vixie		Individual	07/14/16
Angie	Drier	Senior Neighbors - RSVP	Individual	07/25/16
Judy	Adams	Ronald McDonald House Charities of W. WA & AK	Individual	07/27/16
Holly	Payne	Covenant House Alaska	Individual

If you have a local, state, or national event you'd like to publicize, please feel free to add it to our calendar. 

From our home page, click on the calendar and you will see a link to add your own event.

Meetings, trainings, conferences or other pertinent events to Volunteer Managers are welcome.