Session description
Working with volunteer staff is rewarding, challenging (at times) and an effective strategy to help expand the reach of your organization’s mission. In this session, you will learn how to fortify the volunteer management framework of your program, recruit and retain the right people for the many opportunities you offer and measure the difference your volunteers make. Join us for an interactive experience that will provide tools you can begin using right away!

Learning objectives
As a result of this session, participants will be able to
1. Identify the strengths and growth opportunities in their volunteer programs
2. Develop effective general and targeted recruitment strategies
3. Evaluate and build volunteer program toolkit and resources

About Our Presenter
Liz Adamshick has 42 years’ experience in volunteer resources management, having directed volunteer engagement programs for Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross of Greater Columbus, Columbus AIDS Task Force, and in faith communities, high schools, and university settings.

During her tenure with the American Red Cross of Greater Columbus, she designed and implemented a volunteer inquiry-to-placement process that received international acclaim as a best practice and directed the organization’s response to volunteer interest following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the mid-80’s she traveled with an all-volunteer delegation to Nicaragua to document the war between the Contras and the Sandanistas and honed her community organizing skills there, based on the experience of the people caught in the middle of the conflict.

A published author/writer, she has facilitated numerous professional development training sessions and workshops at national and international conferences, including the American National Red Cross Volunteer Institute, ServeOhio (a state-wide annual conference on volunteerism for Ohio), and the South Carolina Association of Volunteer Administration. She has also developed and facilitated courses for the Volunteer Management Training Program collaborative between Wright State University and United Way of the Greater Dayton Area. You’ll find her books, essays and reflections at www.welcometonakedacres.com.

Liz earned her undergraduate degree in Theology/Philosophy from Walsh University and has completed graduate work in theology/youth ministry from both the University of Notre Dame and the Pontifical College Josephinum. She holds a Certificates in American Sign Language/Deaf Studies and as an Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and Assessor.

She lives in Mt. Vernon on 41 acres of paradise with the man of her dreams, enjoys bookbinding, meditative morning walks and could eat Mexican food pretty much anytime all the time.