Managing Volunteers
Product This chapter, originally published in Alumni Relations: A Newcomer’s Guide to Success (2nd ed.), offers essential information and advice about how to manage volunteers, from hiring to firing. Includes sample role/job descriptions.

Mobilizing a Volunteer Team for Your Community College Annual Fund Campaign
Product This webinar discusses how the Los Rios Community College District mobilized a group of volunteers to conduct a successful annual fund campaign. The team of 12 volunteers raised $40,000 in two weeks. Handouts include contains agendas, job descriptions, scripts and other items needed to run a successful volunteer appeal at a two- or four-year institution with limited staff and resources.This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented Oct. 4, 2011. It is part 1 of a three-part Community College Webinar series.

Askophobia: A Guide for Anxious Fund-Raising Volunteers_Packet of 25
Product This booklet is designed to help volunteers overcome the fear of asking for gifts and provides step-by-step advice on planning and making the call, discussing the amount of the ask and handling a yes, no, or maybe.

Askophobia: A Guide for Anxious Fund-Raising Volunteers_Packet of 10
Product This booklet is designed to help volunteers overcome the fear of asking for gifts and provides step-by-step advice on planning and making the call, discussing the amount of the ask and handling a yes, no, or maybe. .

Askophobia: A Guide for Anxious Fund-Raising Volunteers_Single copy PDF
Product This booklet is designed to help volunteers overcome the fear of asking for gifts and provides step-by-step advice on planning and making the call, discussing the amount of the ask and handling a yes, no, or maybe.

Art of Asking_Single copy PDF
Product A useful tool for training new and experienced volunteers, The Art of Asking provides guidelines that volunteers can use in preparing for prospect calls and asking for gifts.

Art of Asking_Packet of 10
Product A useful tool for training new and experienced volunteers, The Art of Asking provides guidelines that volunteers can use in preparing for prospect calls and asking for gifts.

Art of Asking_Packet of 25
Product A useful tool for training new and experienced volunteers, The Art of Asking provides guidelines that volunteers can use in preparing for prospect calls and asking for gifts.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Single copy PDF
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses..

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 25
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 10
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.

Volunteer Management: Connect, Engage and Inspire Your Constituency
Product This webinar teaches strategies and tips for effective volunteer management and discusses how mission-focused, well-matched and high-performing volunteers are a key component of the success of an alumni relations program or any nonprofit organization. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented Dec. 4, 2008.

Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers
Product This book discusses techniques to use in recruiting and training volunteers in order for them to be effective fundraisers. Talks about all aspects of volunteer involvement, including volunteer positions in the capital campaign; volunteers in other fundraising roles; the role of the board in fundraising; training and educating volunteers; and staff and volunteers working together to raise money. Part of the AFP Fund Development Series.

Askophobia: A Guide for Anxious Fund-Raising Volunteers_Packet of 50
Product This booklet is designed to help volunteers overcome the fear of asking for gifts and provides step-by-step advice on planning and making the call, discussing the amount of the ask and handling a yes, no, or maybe.

Winning Words: A Volunteer's Guide to Asking for Major Gifts_Packet of 50
Product Winning Words helps your trustees, alumni, and friends prepare for prospect calls. Along with explaining the duties of the asker and the civic obligations of the prospect, it shows them how to handle the most commonly asked questions and most commonly offered excuses.

Art of Asking_Packet of 50
Product A useful tool for training new and experienced volunteers, The Art of Asking provides guidelines that volunteers can use in preparing for prospect calls and asking for gifts.