Recruiting and Retaining the Right People

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Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Time: 3:45 — 5:15 p.m

According to the 2005 Neighborhood Networks Report, only 50 percent of individuals working at Neighborhood Networks centers are paid staff. The other 50 percent are volunteers that include residents, representatives from area nonprofit agencies conducting classes, or college students working with children on service-learning projects. This workshop presents a plan for how to recruit, retain, and reward Neighborhood Networks center volunteers. Various volunteer options are discussed, including Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Materials:
Recruiting and Retaining Presentation

Moderator/Presenter:
Sarah Richey Johnson
Housing Program Manager
Neighborhood Networks
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Presenters:

Curtis Cannon
Director of Client Services
Greater D.C. Cares

Danielle Martin
Program Coordinator and Trainer
MassIMPACT

Danielle Martin is a second-year Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) volunteer and VISTA Leader at the Community Technology Centers (CTC) AmeriCorps* VISTA Project in Boston, Massachusetts. Martin is also program coordinator and trainer at MassIMPACT. For these positions, Martin supports two online collaborative social networks, the CTC VISTA’s resource portal and the community digital storytelling facilitators’ network on StoriesforChange.net. For these online forums, Martin conducts train-the-trainer digital storytelling workshops for MassIMPACT’s Spreading the Stories program, and works to bring new programs and collaborations to MassIMPACT technology and community centers. Previously, Martin was the technology director at the Charlestown (MA) Boys & Girls Club Computer Clubhouse and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab IDEAS Institute Fellow. Her background is in afterschool multimedia programs for youth, instructional design for Web-based trainings, fundraising, and development. In the fall, Martin will be a student in MIT’s master’s degree city planning program offered by the department of urban studies and planning.