Relative Impact ROI A More Meaningful Way to Measure Volunteer Engagement

Volunteer managers in most organizations would be considered to be failing in their job if the numbers of volunteer hours goes down from one year to the next. In many cases, hours are looked at as time that would have had to have been paid for or as associated with services that would not have been delivered had the time not been volunteered. Both can be false assumptions.
 
This workshop will demonstrate how the more-hours-the-better focus can actually devalue volunteers and how to use a new model that includes cash costs and the consumption of volunteer hours as inputs and accomplishments as outputs.
 
Who should come?
Managers of Volunteers   Executive Directors   Grant Writers    Funders
 
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to …

• Define priorities for volunteer engagement that are aligned to the organization’s mission
• Calculate the return on investment of volunteer engagement based on outputs and strides toward mission goals rather than the simple sum total of volunteer hours
• Identify how common methods of reporting can lead to devaluing volunteers
• Monitor the performance of their engagement of volunteers for internal process improvements

What nonprofit professionals are saying….
 
“Fantastic! I have been trying to explain this to my CEO. Now I’ll be able to show him” 
“Most useful info ever.”
“Now if leadership could see this.”
“It totally made sense and couldn’t have been more timely.”
“Best presentation in a couple of years.”
“Revolutionary. Make it the keynote next year.”
“Very enlightening – great info with practical application – critical in today’s climate.”
“Excellent and useful information for communicating the value of volunteer programs and volunteer management professionals.”
“I am excited to take this back with me.”
“Opened my eyes to an entirely new way to measure the value and cost of our volunteer program.”
“Bring him back! He taught us to speak the same language as a board.”
“This is a wonderful tool to give visibility and purpose to what volunteers do in our organizations”.

About the Speaker
Tony Goodrow is the president of Better Impact Inc. (www.betterimpact.com), the publisher of OurSharedResources.com (a free resource sharing site for leaders of volunteers), the founding chair of a residential hospice in his hometown and the pioneer of the Relative Impact volunteer ROI model. He has spoken at volunteer management conferences on five continents.