Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow is everything nonprofits need to engage skilled Boomer volunteers. This innovative book provides a step-by-step guide for engaging Boomers as volunteers to build organizational capacity.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding the World of Boomers|
Chapter 2: Structuring for Innovation: Process & Assessment
Chapter 3: Mapping the Initiative: Work Plan
Chapter 4: Creating the Opportunity: Position Descriptions
Chapter 5: Developing Connections: Networking & Cultivation
Chapter 6: Capitalizing on Boomer Resources: Motivational Analysis
Chapter 7: Creating the Collaboration: Interviewing & Finding the Fit
Chapter 8: Nurturing the Relationship: Support
Chapter 9: Sustaining the Collaboration: Ongoing Engagement
Book includes fourteen work sheets, all downloadable as interactive PDFs.
Introduction
Imagine a world in which your nonprofit organization has all the resources it needs to serve more clients, deliver more programs, strengthen its staff, spread its message more widely, and increase its financial stability. Envision a future in which nonprofits have a pool of talented, skilled, and passionate individuals on call to build organizational capacity by serving as consultants, strategists, marketing gurus, ambassadors, innovators, mentors, fund-raisers, and direct service teammates. If this vision attracts, excites—even inspires—you, read on, because this future is here, now. This abundant resource is a workforce 78.2 million strong; they are the Baby Boomers, the former flower children born between 1946 and 1964, and they are our strongest growing resource.
Boomers have led change in every phase of their lives—from the revolutionary social changes during their teens and young adulthood in the 1960s and 1970s to the unprecedented career mobility and the ongoing presence of women in the workforce that marked their professional lives in the 1980s and 1990s. Just as concern for society’s well-being was the root of the social movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a desire to take care of individuals, the community, and the earth will propel Boomers to revolutionize nonprofits in the twenty-first-century. Boomers desire and know how to positively impact a nonprofit’s capacity more significantly than any cohort of volunteers that has preceded them. They are redefining retirement and will demand changes in the very nature of volunteerism.