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"Retention, Then Recruitment: A New Take on Volunteer Management During and After COVID-19"
Join us for the December edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch and Learn Series with Students Run Philly Style. This session will be facilitated by Ieshia Nelson (she/her), Associate Director of Mentoring and Training and Lauren Kobylarz (she/her), Program Director.
Session Description:
When some of the more visible pieces of your program are stripped away, what’s left is what you really do as a SBYD organization: building relationships and encouraging personal growth. How can making sense of the chaos of COVID-19 move your organization’s volunteer force forward as you rebuild your program? How has 2020 changed your expectations for your volunteer force, and how can you sustain those expectations as you put your program back together the way you want it to be? Participants will learn how to incorporate the concept of sensemaking into their volunteer management practices, and explore how messaging can reflect and reinforce standards to first retain, then recruit volunteers for long term impact.
