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Managing Volunteers

Literacy Volunteers of Illinois: Founded in 1979 as part of the Literacy Volunteers of America.  Literacy Volunteers of Illinois today provides "an array of services in . . .  programs to staff, tutors and adult students in a variety of adult and family literacy programs."

Literacy Connections: "provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. We recommend resources that are useful for teachers, volunteers, and directors of literacy programs. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, and the best in children's literature."

Literacy NOW: "promotes quality literacy instruction by developing and supporting programs - not simply training their volunteer tutors . . .  value(s) the elements of quality included in the Volunteer Literacy Principles, a set of standards developed by a group of experienced volunteer literacy program managers in Washington State."<

Developing and Managing Volunteer Programs: Believing that "for the organization and its volunteers to benefit the most from each other, volunteers should be managed as part of an overall, systematic program, somewhat similar to the systematic approach that should be used to managing employees... (It provides) links to sections in this overall topic and the sections are organized in the order in which they might be needed in an organization that is starting a volunteer management program -- the order of the links themselves suggest the systematic nature of a well designed volunteer management program. Organizations that already have established programs can use this overall topic by going directly to the sections that are relevant to current priorities in their current program. The links present a wide variety of perspectives and materials about volunteer management programs/systems." (Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD)

Adult Literacy Volunteers (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have Adobe, you can download it by clicking here.) "This ERIC digest examines such aspects of adult literacy volunteerism as recent developments, program characteristics, and advantages and disadvantages of using volunteers and suggests resources in developing volunteer programs."