July 24, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Recordkeeping Systems, by Susan J. Ellis and Katherine Noyes Campbell, gives advice on how to collect and maintain information about volunteers. Ms. Ellis, president of Energize, a training, consulting, and publishing company in Philadelphia that specializes in volunteerism, and Ms. Campbell, former executive director of the Association for Volunteer Administration, in Richmond, Va., write that keeping track of when volunteers are available can help charities if they need assistance on short notice, and logging the hours volunteers serve can help groups demonstrate how much labor is devoted to programs. The guide includes a sample questionnaire that can be used to gather information from volunteers, and offers suggestions on how to set up a database to store the information. The appendix includes forms groups can use if they do not have access to computers.
Publisher: Energize, 5450 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19144; (800) 395-9800; fax (215) 438-0434; info@energizeinc.com; http://www.energizeinc.com; 67 pages; $15, $10 online.
