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"Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting--and keeping--an active and effective volunteer programDrawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining an active and effective volunteer program. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers. Now covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers, policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting, interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers, and much moreUp-to-date, practical guidance for the major areas of volunteer leadership and managementExplores volunteers and the law: liabilities, immunities, and responsibilitiesDesigned to help nonprofit organizations survive and thrive, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is an indispensable reference that is unsurpassed in both the breadth and depth of its coverage"--

"Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting--and keeping--an active and effective volunteer programDrawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining an active and effective volunteer program. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers. Now covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers, policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting, interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers, and much moreUp-to-date, practical guidance for the major areas of volunteer leadership and managementExplores volunteers and the law: liabilities, immunities, and responsibilitiesDesigned to help nonprofit organizations survive and thrive, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is an indispensable reference that is unsurpassed in both the breadth and depth of its coverage"--

The local fire station typically is responsible for responding first in an emergency. Emergency response in the era after 11 September 2001 is an important topic to consider. In the big picture, it is a complex web of federal and national resources that are brought to bear on a diverse set of problems. In the smaller picture, individual managers cope with pressures to provide efficient response, but a response that is embedded within the needs of the local community. In both these pictures, the tensions between individualism and nationalism are discerned. This dissertation examines these individuals at the local county level in more detail. Using grounded theory, it describes the strategies that emerged to integrate the actions of career and volunteer first responders. It finds that legacy organizational design and individual motivations are important influences on these integrating strategies. Most interestingly, it finds that the founding debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists still has influence on these managing strategies. Local managers are able to blend these distinct visions of government. Each of these influences is described as they were manifested in the study interviews and observations. ; Ph. D.

THE BRITISH HAVE A LONG TRADITION OF NONCONSCRIPTION IN THE ARMED FORCES. PREVIOUS TO THE 1914 WAR, THE ARMY WAS LARGELY NONPROFESSIONAL & CONSCRIPTION HAD NEVER BEEN ATTEMPTED. FOLLOWING THE WAR, CONSCRIPTION WAS DISMISSED, ONLY TO BE REINSTATED IN 1939 & MAINTAINED UNTIL 1962 WHEN IT WAS AGAIN ABANDONED. THE ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY, HOWEVER, FACED RECURRENT MAN-POWER SHORTAGES THROUGHOUT THE 1960'S--PERHAPS DUE TO THE DECREASED GLAMOR OF THE MILITARY BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE IMPERIAL WITHDRAWAL & LACK OF POLITICAL WILL TO PURCHASE MORE STRENGTH, OCCASIONED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH HYDROGEN BOMB. VARIOUS STRATEGIES WERE EMPLOYED TO INCREASE RECRUITMENT, INCLUDING LOWERING EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS & AGE OF ENTRY. THESE POLICIES HAD ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, & ONLY MARGINAL SUCCESS. ECONOMIC DISLOCATION IN SOCIETY SEEMS MOST LIKELY TO BRING AN INCREASE IN RECRUITS; THE OFFICER CORPS WAS ALSO UNDERSTRENGTH DURING THIS PERIOD. AS THE SOCIETY HAS BECOME MORE OPEN & MERITOCRATIC, & WITH DEFENSE CUTS & CONSEQUENT LACK OF JOB SECURITY FOR OFFICERS, RECRUITMENT HAS BECOME A PROBLEM. THE KEY STRATEGY IN OFFICER RECRUITMENT HAS BEEN, & CONTINUES TO BE, AN EFFORT TO BROADEN THE SOCIAL BASE FROM WHICH OFFICERS ARE DRAWN. 7 TABLES. F. HYDOSKI.

During the past few years much effort has been put into developing community-based methods to capture and analyze a large amount of data in a systematic manner. This new source of geo-referenced data could be very important throughout Africa where crowd sourcing activities or volunteered geographic information (VGI) enhance participation and decision making based on local knowledge. VGI has the potential to be a significant source of information for a variety of applications. It will especially help national mapping authorities to build and update their national geospatial datasets, and improve the availability and currency of the countries fundamental and thematic datasets. Governments therefore need to take proactive measures to develop strategies maximizing on the opportunity in the current technological development. This calls out the need to developing strategic guidance on how to strengthen the communities' participation in data collection. The United Nations Economic commission for Africa developed a document on the best practices and principles for adopting community mapping and VGI in the mapping practices in Africa. An expert group meeting is held to gather experts in the field to discuss on the issues, review best practices and current status on citizen participation in community mapping and to develop a roadmap for the adoption of the technology and agree on the guiding principles. The outcome of the meeting resulted in the framing of guiding principles for community mapping which is published in 2017. This paper therefore provides overview of VGI in Africa and the efforts made to date.