How to evaluate the impact of volunteering - In house course
Your step by step guide to planning, designing and running an evaluation of your volunteering programs that delivers
Only if you know how to monitor and evaluate your volunteering initiatives can you be sure how well they are working – and, just as important, what is not.
This means you need systems to track what you are doing. Based on what they reveal, you can properly judge if you are doing as well as you hoped.
Otherwise you are at a terrible disadvantage – what could be more frustrating than putting in months, maybe years of effort without real reward, either for you or the volunteers involved in your projects?
But surprisingly few social landlords attempt to measure its impact.
Perhaps that’s because they don’t know where to start. But only if you monitor and evaluate your involvement of volunteers can you be sure how effective volunteering is.
It’s not easy though as many of the impacts of volunteering are intangible and hard to quantify and it’s difficult to know where to start and which measures you should be using.
In this one day course we’ll cover all these topics as well as these key areas.
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Why should you evaluate the impact of volunteering?
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What types of impact does volunteering have, and on which audiences?
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How can you design an evaluation framework?
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What are some of the different methods and more innovative approaches that can be used to evaluate the impact of volunteering?
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What is the Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit and how do you use it?
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What are the limitations of evaluating the impact of volunteering programmes, the common pitfalls, and some possible solutions?
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How can you use the evidence to improve volunteer management practices and further the impact of volunteering?
The course is ideal if you have to discover in any way how well your volunteer projects are doing.
Why not run this course in house? Email me at
rod@rodlaird.co.uk
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