Recruiting Informal Volunteers for Short Term Events
Volunteers are the lifeblood of our community and our organizations. However, finding new volunteers for long-term commitments such as serving on a Board of Directors or helping out with short-term projects or special events is getting harder. Join us to look specifically at how organizations can better recruit people for short-term and even single-day projects or informal volunteering, and target young, community-minded people to come out and help. What has worked in the past is not working anymore; it is time to consider updating your recruitment efforts if you need a strong and dynamic volunteer base to be successful.
About the Presenter:
Max Chauvin is a nationally certified speaker, consultant, and facilitator with over 25 years of senior management and governance experience in a variety of organizations.
Max is currently the Director of Housing & Homelessness with the Halifax Regional Municipality. He has worked both in government and community around such social issues as health care, equity, accessibility, diversity and inclusion, poverty, and food insecurity. Max holds an MSc and an MBA, with specialisms in strategic planning.
Through his company, Chauvin Resource Development Group, Max offers training in planning, staff and volunteer management, and board governance. Through both public and private workshops Max is committed to providing people and their organizations with exciting new ideas and tools that make a real difference and are easy to use.
Max’s workshops have been described as funny, full of energy, challenging, thought provoking, and packed with practical information. He has worked with a variety of groups including Recreation Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Community Health Boards, Real Estate Institute of Canada, Girl Guides of Canada, Nova Scotia Recreation Professionals in Health, Canadian Cancer Society, Literacy Nova Scotia and the Go for Green Initiative.
Max has been a facilitator at the Kings Volunteer Resource Centre’s annual Volunteer Symposium and has delivered various other workshops for KVRC over the past several years.
