Virtual Volunteering

This course provides the information you need to successfully create new virtual volunteer roles within your organization or how to adapt traditional roles to a virtual setting.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the definition of virtual volunteering in the context of traditional volunteer roles.
• Explore why virtual volunteer roles are important.
• Outline the benefits and challenges of developing virtual roles.
• Determine the necessary adjustments when adapting traditional roles into virtual ones.
• Expand your knowledge about the range of virtual opportunities.
• Understand how to build success for virtual volunteering.

Course Curriculum

Part One: The Basics of Virtual Volunteering

Part Two: Adapting Traditional Roles

Part Three: Creating New Virtual Roles

Part Four: Six Keys to Successfully Integrate your Virtual Volunteers into your Existing Volunteer Program

Links and Additional Resources

4 downloadable resources and course transcript
12 links to online resources

Course Access & Duration 

This course is on-demand, meaning that you can take it anytime, at your own pace. The course will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete from start to finish. You have one year (365 days) to complete the course from the date of purchase before it will automatically expire in your account. However, once you open a course for the very first time, you will have unlimited access to complete the course within 3 months. You can choose to take the course in one sitting or in smaller bites. Either way, the course is entirely flexible and up to you how fast you complete it within the 3-month time frame!

Course Level/Prerequisites/Certification Credits

Introductory level, no prerequisites.

Recommended companion course: Volunteer Engagement, How Fundraising Works, Writing Effective Policies & Procedures

Participation in the course is applicable for 1.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

This training may be used to meet the requirements for renewing the Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA) credential, but you will need to contact the CVA directly. One Professional Development Unit (PDU) is awarded for each 50-60-minute session or contact hour in topics related to volunteer resources management. For more details about the CVA program and whether this course meets the renewal requirements, visit www.CVAcert.org or email info@cvacert.org.

Continuing education certification may be eligible through the Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources – Ontario (PAVRO). For more information, please email pavro@pavro.on.ca.

Price

$99 – this price includes unlimited access to the course for 3 months and all the course downloads.

Final Exam

The final exam is optional but highly recommended. If you choose not to complete the final exam, the course status on your eLearning dashboard will show as incomplete.

About the Course Author

Donna Lockhart, Partner with The RETHINK Group, helps organizations attract, support, and expand their volunteer resources. Using her diverse experience to partner with non-profit organizations, she creates volunteer engagement strategies; strategic plans; policy; staff training and resources. Donna’s career started in recreation planning which laid the groundwork for future development of resources for volunteers and youth. She has published numerous resources including The Youth Volunteer Audit, a tool to increase effectiveness and success when engaging youth.

Donna has held many leadership positions with non-profits that enriched her perspective. These include: Community Development and Youth worker with the City of North York; Director of Volunteer Leadership Development for the United Way of Peterborough and District; Executive Director of Junior Achievement, Kawartha Lakes Region; Director of Staff Development and Activation for Marycrest Home for the Aged; and, Executive Director of PAVR-O (Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources Ontario).

Donna created one of Charity Village’s first eLearning courses called Building a Great Volunteer Program. This led her to design and teach the online Certificate in Volunteer Management course for Sir Sandford Fleming College (hosted by OntarioLearns), a certificate aimed at building competency for Managers of Volunteers and raising professionalism. As an Advisory Member with the HR Council of Canada and the Canadian Administrators of Volunteers, she helped to develop the first Occupational Standards for the role of Coordinator/Administrator of Volunteers and integrate these into the certificate curriculum.

Donna completed a master’s degree in Community Development & Recreation Planning from York University and is a Certified Volunteer Resource Manager.

For more information about The RETHINK Group, contact Donna at: www.rethinkgroup.ca