The Essentials
and The Extras
Your Ultimate Toolbox for Volunteer Management!
Volunteering is evolving. Volunteers want to make a meaningful and valuable contribution, with increasingly diverse availability, motivations, and life experiences. Organizations must therefore adapt their practices to better recruit, welcome, support, guide, and recognize volunteers.
For over 30 years, we have supported organizations in developing strong and impactful volunteer management practices. By staying attuned to the needs of the sector and the evolving nature of volunteerism, we offer practical training that helps foster clear, human-centered, and inclusive volunteer management practices.
From assessing needs to recognizing volunteers’ contributions, CABM’s training programs provide organizations with the tools to create positive, meaningful volunteer experiences that support and align with their mission.
The VBM presents:
The Essentials: a series of four training sessions designed to strengthen volunteer management practices at every stage of the volunteer experience cycle.
The Extras: complementary training sessions that explore specialized topics and issues related to volunteer action.
The Essentials (1)
Recruiting volunteers: attracting and engaging committed people
Clarify your organization’s needs, define realistic and engaging volunteer roles, create effective volunteer opportunities, and diversify recruitment strategies to reach enough volunteers with the desired profiles.
The Essentials (2)
Selecting volunteers: fostering fair practices and successful matches
Implement a fair, reciprocal, and proportionate volunteer selection process to foster successful volunteer matches.
The Essentials (3)
Managing volunteers: providing structured and tailored support
Establish a clear, human-centered, inclusive, and appropriate framework to welcome volunteers, communicate effectively with them, provide training and resources, prevent risks, and support the quality of their contributions.
The Essentials (4)
Recognizing and retaining volunteers: highlighting impact and supporting transitions
Recognize volunteer contributions, support motivation, highlight their impact, and respectfully support transitions or the end of volunteer involvement.
The Extras (1)
Welcoming Business and Skills-Based Volunteering: Creating Meaningful, Realistic, and Well-Defined Assignments.
Understand the specific characteristics of Business and Skills-Based Volunteering, clarify success factors, and prepare meaningful, realistic, and well-defined volunteer assignments.
VBM Coffee Chats
Our "Coffee Chats" bring organizations together to discuss key challenges in volunteer resource management. These are moments for connection, listening, sharing, and solidarity!
Volunteer Information Sessions
The VBM offers information sessions for various audiences to introduce them to volunteering, existing opportunities in Montreal, and the social and personal impact of volunteering.
Volunteerism Conferences
The VBM sometimes invites partners to organize round tables, webinars, and conferences on key topics related to volunteerism.
Come discover new perspectives and expert analyses on volunteer-related issues!
Valuing. Connecting. Supporting.
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Montreal, QC H3J 1N4
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