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Reviewing your Volunteering Program
A guide on how to review a volunteering program.
Author: Volunteering Australia
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Achieving Excellence in Your Volunteer Program: Volunteer program management guidelines
A guide on how to engage with volunteers, particularly through the recruitment process, as well as how to advocate for volunteer involvement to the organisation.
Author: Swan Volunteer Resource Centre, City of Swan
Best Practice Goal Planner
A resource to support staff to set and manage goals. Note: This resource supports the Best Practice Guidelines
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
Best Practice Guidelines
A workbook to help organisations review their volunteering programs in line with best practice frameworks.
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
Calculating the Economic Value of Your Volunteers
A guide on how to quantitatively calculate the economic value of your volunteers.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
Competencies for Managers of Volunteers
Identifies the key competencies of Managers of Volunteers. The resource can be used as a self-assessment tool for Managers of Volunteers to identify current skills and areas for improvement.
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
Disability Action Plan
A guide on how to develop a Disability Action Plan. This resource is accompanied by Disability Action Plan Templates.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Disability Action Plan: Template
A template to create a Disability Action Plan Template. Note: This resource is accompanied by the Disability Action Plan resource.
Author: Victoria ALIVE, Volunteering Victoria
Do My Volunteers Need Training?
A resource with several templates to identify whether a volunteer needs additional training and methods to track progress.
Author: Volunteer Ireland
Exit Interview Spreadsheet
A template for recording data from a series of exit interviews for recording and evaluating data on exiting volunteers.
Author: Volunteering WA
Guide to Onboarding: Feedback Questions
A template for feedback questions regarding the onboarding process, from recruitment, to induction, to ongoing engagement. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Onboarding.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Onboarding: Inclusion and Diversity Questionnaire
A template questionnaire to support the inclusive involvement of volunteers. This template covers both identifying the needs of volunteers and receiving feedback on the onboarding process. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Onboarding.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring: Sample Coaching Feedback Questions
A template for both a student and coach to provide feedback on the coaching process. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring: Sample Mentoring Feedback Questions
A template for both mentor and mentee feedback questions. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring: Sample Peer Support Feedback Questions
A template for providing feedback on peer support. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring: Values Exploration Tool
A resource to help identify the values of a person, to understand how this impacts on behaviour and motivations. Note: This resource accompanies the Guide to Peer Support, Coaching and Mentoring resource.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Performance Appraisal: Managing Underperformance Guidelines
A guide on how to manage underperformance. Note: This resource supports the Supplementary Guide to Performance Appraisal
Author: VolunteeringACT
Guide to Supervision: Supervision Feedback Questions
A template for supervision feedback questions. Note: This resource supports the Guide to Supervision
Author: VolunteeringACT
Harnessing Volunteer Motivation: Resource Pack
Identifies the importance of the volunteer lifecycle, including supporting, supervising and recognising volunteers. Aligns findings with the National Standards for Volunteer Involvement. Note: This resource accompanies the Leep: Harnessing Volunteer Motivation Webinar.
Author: Leep
Harnessing Volunteer Motivation: Webinar
Webinar providing discussion on supporting, supervising and recognising volunteers, providing insight into volunteer motivations, based on the experience of Managers of Volunteers. Note: This resource is accompanied by the Harnessing Volunteer Motivation: Resource Pack.
Author: Leep
Insurance and COVID-19: Guidance for Volunteering Involving Organisations
Information on risk in volunteer involvement during COVID-19. Covering liability over the health of volunteers and discrimination concerns in standing volunteers down.
Author: Volunteering Australia
Keeping Volunteers Safe
Supporting volunteer involvement in a pandemic. Topics covered include risk management; work, health and safety; insurance; and an organisational self-assessment.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Measuring the Impact of Volunteering
A guide on how to measure the impact of volunteers.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
Reviewing your Volunteering Program
A guide on how to review a volunteering program.
Author: Volunteering Australia
So What? Volunteering Impact Measurement - Top Tips to Get You started
A guide on how to demonstrate the impact of volunteer involvement to your organisation.
Author: Volunteer Scotland, Scottish Volunteering Forum, Scottish Government
Steps for Obtaining Feedback from Volunteers
A guide on how to obtain feedback from volunteers and how to follow-up on feedback provided.
Author: Volunteering WA
Supplementary Guide to Probation: Employee Probation Policy
A template for a Probation Policy. This resource can be used as a WHS tool, providing volunteers with opportunity to provide feedback. Probation is not mandatory for volunteers. Note: This resource supports the Supplementary Guide to Probation.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Supplementary Guide to Probation: Employee Probation Procedure
A template for Probation Procedure. This resource can be used as WHS tool, providing volunteers with opportunity to provide feedback. Probation is not mandatory for volunteers. Note: This resource supports the Supplementary Guide to Probation.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Supplementary Guide to Probation: Probation Feedback Questions
Template for a supervisor's evaluation of a probationary employee. Can be adapted to receive feedback from volunteers during onboarding process. Note: This resource supports the Supplementary Guide to Probation.
Author: VolunteeringACT
Team Performance Indicator
An example of a team performance indicator self-assessment tool.
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
Template: Debriefing Spontaneous Volunteer Operations
Provides an overview on the key points to consider when debriefing Spontaneous Volunteers.
Author: Volunteering Queensland
The Compass: Your Guide to Social Impact Measurement
A comprehensive guide on how to report on social outcomes and their impact.
Author: The Centre for Social Impact
Time Analyser
A resource to support staff to analyse how they spend their time on a given day. Note: This resource supports the Best Practice Guidelines.
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
VolPoll
An engagement tool designed for volunteers and small to medium groups to evaluate and better understand their volunteering opportunities and threats.
Author: VolPoll
Volunteer Exit Interview Template
A template for conducting a volunteer exit interview.
Author: Volunteering WA
Volunteer Exit Questionnaire
A template for undertaking a volunteer exit interview.
Author: Volunteer Scotland
Volunteer Leaving Questionnaire
A template for a volunteer exit interview.
Author: Volunteer Edinburgh, Volunteer Wiki
Volunteer Management Health Check Guide
A resource guiding organisations on how to perform a health check of their volunteer involvement and volunteer management practices. This resource can be used as a template. Note: Item 2.08 is not relevant to Australian volunteering programs.
Author: Volunteer Ireland
Volunteer Management Toolkit
A comprehensive guide on best practice volunteer management, covering all aspects of the volunteer management cycle.
Author: Volunteering Victoria
Volunteer Performance Review
A template for completing and recording details of a volunteer performance review.
Author: Volunteering WA
Volunteer Performance Review: Detailed
A detailed template for completing and recording details of a volunteer performance review.
Author: Volunteering WA
Wheel Template: Personal Competency Matrix
A template to accompany the Competencies for Managers of Volunteers resource.
Author: Volunteering New Zealand
Youth Ready Assessment
A guide to check and assess how well a volunteering program appeals to young people across five focus areas.
Author: Volunteering Victoria