Session 1 - Welcome to the NDSU Extension Service

Session 2 - Who We Are and What We Do

Session 3 - Policies and Procedures

Session 4 - Information Technology

Session 5 - Communications

Session 6 - The Land-Grant University

Session 7 - Program Development and Educational Design

Session 8 - Evaluation

Session 9 - 4-H Youth Development

Session 10 - Personalizing Your Programs

Session 11 - Professional Development

Session 12 - Working with Differences

Session 13 - Balancing Work and Personal Life

Session 14 - Organizational Management

Session 15 - Volunteer Management

Session 16 - Wrap-up

Resources

Contacts

If there’s anything that can be done to make your first year with the NDSU Extension Service better, please contact your supervisor (district director, assistant director or department chair) or Deb Gebeke, Assistant Director, Staff Development.
debra.gebeke@ndsu.edu

What is a volunteer? A volunteer is one of those words that to many people it may have a different meaning. However according to the dictionary a volunteer is someone who is able: To Perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will and to do charitable or helpful work without pay.

An important component of volunteering in Extension is related to that of Service Learning. Service learning is a method under which students learn and develop through thoughtfully-organized service that: is conducted in and meets the needs of a community and is coordinated with an institution of higher education, and with the community; helps foster civic responsibility; is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of those involved.

There are three basic components to effective service learning:

• The first is sufficient preparation, which includes setting objectives for skills to be learned or issues to consider, and includes planning projects so they contribute to learning at the same time work gets done.
• The second component is imply performing service.
• Third, the participant attempts to analyze the experience and draw lessons, through such means as discussion with others and reflection on the work.

Both volunteerism and service learning are critical components of volunteer management. Below you will find a short presentation and some activities to complete on Volunteer Management.

Building Your Volunteer Program

Building Your Volunteer Program (MS Powerpoint)
Places to Recruit Volunteers (MS Word)
Volunteer Recognition Ideas (MS Word)
Ways to Encourage Volunteering (MS Word)
Position Description Template (MS Word)
My Plan for a Volunteer Orientation Session (pdf)
Volunteer Circle of Commitment (pdf)
 

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Wrap-up