Volunteers

Screening

• Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-Serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures.
  Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/PreventingChildSexualAbuse.pdf
  Designed to assist youth service organizations in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse, this guide identifies six key components of child abuse prevention and describes goals and strategies for each.
• Screening Applications for Effectiveness
  Friends of Youth
  http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/SAFE.html
  Includes the latest in child molestation research, available as a publication and as a customized training
• Screening Volunteers to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse: A Community Guide for Youth Organizations
  National Collaboration for Youth
  www.nassembly.org/nassembly/NAPublications.htm
• Free or Reduced-Cost Fingerprint-Based Volunteer Screening
  Oregon State Police and FBI
  http://www.oregon.gov/OSP/ID/clearinghouse.shtml
  
  SafetyNET Pilot Program (through MENTOR)
  http://apps.mentoring.org/safetynet/index.adp
  Please see this page for a brief explanation of each program

Recruitment

• Recruiting Male Mentors
  http://cbmnational.org/weblog/categories/achievement-gap/
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0715/p13s01-lecl.html
  http://www.mrcforchange.org/newsletter.html
• Recruiting DVD (school-based)
  "In Their Own Words," produced by MentorMap (YouthFriends)
  An introduction/overview of school-based mentoring from the point of view of actual mentors, students, school district superintendents, teachers and program staff. It sends a great message about the many people that mentoring impacts. Running time: 7:20 minutes. Cost is $43. For more information, contact Melissa Gingell – gingell@youthfriends.org or visit http://www.mentormap.org/Tools/MMproducts.html .
  NOTE: MentorMap provides a comprehensive system of tools, training and technology available for school districts and communities seeking to develop and grow mentoring programs in local schools. Based on the successful YouthFriends operating system, used by hundreds of school districts, MentorMap is grounded in the Elements of Effective Practice™, published by MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership.
• Recruiting DVD (faith-based)
  MentorYouth.com
  http://www.mentoryouth.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recruitment.video
  A free recruitment DVD produced by Mentor Youth, a faith-based mentoring website that seeks: To recruit and refer Christian adults, and the community as a whole, to mentoring programs in their local communities; to encourage, educate and empower mentors of youth; to register Christian mentoring programs to join a national database to receive prospective mentors; and to connect the ever-growing number of faith-based mentoring programs to share, support and spur one another on to serve their young people and volunteers with excellence. National Network of Youth Ministries has a cooperative agreement with The Department of Justice through a faith-based initiative, to find caring adults to serve as mentors across our country. The National Network of Youth Ministries is also working in partnership with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership.

Employer Policies and Employee Volunteerism

• Family Friendly Workplace Brochure (State of Oregon)
  http://oregon.gov/DAS/HR/publications.shtml (scroll down to Manuals and Guides)
  A brochure listing the leave and alternative provisions for state employees trying to manage work and home.
• Support of Employee Participation in Mentoring Program (PDF, 90 KB)
  State of Oregon, Department of Administrative Services Policy 10.030.03
  Identifies the state policies and administrative rules that may be used to support the efforts of state employees participating in mentoring programs for children and families.
• Effective Practices in Workplace Volunteering
  http://www.pointsoflight.org/downloads/pdf/networks/business/cvc/Effective_Practices_Workplace_Volunteering.pdf
• Recruitment Strategies for Encouraging Participation in Corporate Volunteer Programs
  Dane K Peterson in Journal of Business Ethics (Feb 2004), Vol. 49, No. 4, at 371-86 (Kluwer Academic Publications).
  Can Employee Volunteering Support the Bottom Line?
  http://www.handsonnetwork.org/corporate-volunteerism/2/
• How Employee Volunteers Multiply your Community Impact http://www.onphilanthropy.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5534&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=1046
• Volunteer Connections: The Benefits and Challenges of Employer-Supported Volunteerism
  http://www.volunteer.ca/volunteer/pdf/ESVEnglish.pdf
• The Link Grows Stronger
  Points of Light Foundation & Hands On Network
  http://www.pointsoflight.org/resources/details.cfm?ID=10095
  Executive summary of the Points of Light Foundation report (published 2000) on trends in corporate volunteerism. Useful in pitching employers about employee volunteer opportunities.
• A Summary of the Current State of Knowledge: Using Employee Volunteering to Benefit HR Departments
  http://www.pointsoflight.org/downloads/pdf/networks/business/POLFToolTipsFlyer4p.pdf
  Pamphlet summarizing that the HR areas that employee volunteering best supports are employee professional development, recruitment, morale and retention, and teamwork.
• Corporate volunteerism: Essential Tools for Excellence in Corporate Community Involvement. The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College (1999), Chesnut Hill, MA

Management

• Supporting Mentors
  National Mentoring Center at NWREL
  Technical Assistance Packet #6
  http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/topic_pubs.php
• Same-Race and Cross-Race Matching
  National Mentoring Center at NWREL
  Technical Assistance Packet #7
  http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/topic_pubs.php
• Online Tool to Manage Volunteers
  Volgistics
  http://www.volgistics.com
• Online Tool to Manage Volunteers
  Via
  http://www.youthfriends.org/aboutus/Via_transition_page.html
  An internet-based volunteer management system developed through years of hands-on experience. Currently, more than 200 school districts, mentoring programs and non-profits are using Via to track and document the efforts of tens of thousands of mentors and volunteers throughout the country. For more information about Via, call 816.842.7082.
• Understanding and Assessing the Motivations of Volunteers: A Functional Approach.
  Authors: E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder, Robert D. Ridge, John Copeland and Arthur A. Stukas in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (June 1998) 74: 6 at 1516. See PDF of Clary et al’s Volunteer Function Inventory (PDF, 30 KB) .
• Social Interest, Connectedness and Challenging Experiences: What Makes High School [Age] Mentors Persist? (PDF, 1.5 MB)
  Authors: Michael J. Karcher and Jenny Lindwall in the Journal of Individual Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 3 at 293 (Fall 2003).

Risk Management

• Managing Risk After the Match is Made
  Mentoring Resource Center
  http://www.edmentoring.org/pubs/factsheet11.pdf
• Managing Volunteers: Balancing Risk and Reward
  Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance
  www.ani-rrg.org/ResourceCenter/ResourceDisplay.cfm?IDType=Publications
• More Than a Matter of Trust; Managing the Risks of Mentoring
  Nonprofit Risk Management Center
  www.nonprofitrisk.org