At the Volunteer Manager’s Training Institute in Burbank, California, a 16 year old dancer who was at the hotel along with several hundred other dancers auditioning for a dance competition for a show asked me “What does a Volunteer Manager actually do?”
I had just participated in one of the marketing exercises for Volunteer Managers at the Institute, I had a 30 second elevator speech all prepared and gave her the pitch. You can hear my elevator pitch when you attend the next Volunteer Manager’s Training Institute.
Realizing that Volunteer Managers do so much and are constantly trying to improve their programs and get resources from here, there and everywhere. Here are a few resources that you can use:
Kavin Black currently holds the position of Organizational Services Coordinator at CALCASA. He works with rape crisis centers as well as other organizations to build agency capacity and infrastructure to further the mission of the organization. Kavin began working at CALCASA in July 2002 as the Campus & Training Resource Coordinator on the National Campus Program to Address Violence Against Women on College Campuses. Kavin is a former Executive Director of a California rape crisis center and a former academy instructor for California POST.
