Deepening Volunteer Engagement

About the Workshop:  Deepening Volunteer Engagement
Volunteers can be crucial to the success of your programs.  But how can you deepen your relationship with volunteers, ensuring that they happily support your organization with their time, resources, and connections?  In this interactive workshop, we’ll discuss:

• volunteer appreciation and retention
• how to engage volunteers as donors
• how to engage volunteers as community ambassadors/advocates

This session will cover best practices for both individual volunteers and volunteer groups, including faith-based, corporate, and academic volunteers.
About the Presenter:   Julie Strassman
Julie Strassman is an experienced volunteer engagement professional and educator, dedicated to helping organizations build mutually beneficial relationships with volunteers.  She currently works as the Volunteer Coordinator with Bethesda Hospice Care.  Previously, she worked with Kingdom House, where she achieved volunteer engagement goals such as a 78% increase in volunteer groups over 2 years.  She passionately believes in engaging volunteers to not only help meet an organization’s immediate needs for service, but their ongoing needs for financial support and community buy-in.
Julie currently serves on the Board of the Metropolitan Volunteer Management Association (MVMA) as the VP of Programming, and has served on the Certification Committee for the United Way of Greater St. Louis’  Volunteer Center.  She has presented on volunteer engagement best practices for many local and national nonprofit organizations, including MVMA, Send Me St. Louis, We Raise Foundation (previously Wheat Ridge Ministries), and the Episcopal Service Corps.