Thursday, November 12
8:30 am – 3:30 pm

Hospice of Michigan
400 Mack Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201

Register online at www.esc-detroit.org
$50.00 per participant

New Vitality is an annual workshop that focuses on current issues in volunteer management. In today's economy nonprofit organizations are finding it more important than ever to use volunteers to help deliver their programs and services. Managing volunteers requires skills different from managing paid staff and it is important for volunteer managers to refresh those skills in a setting where they can share ideas and network with their colleagues.

In this year's workshop, participants will identify the challenges and opportunities for volunteer programs in troubled economic times, and learn:
    • Practical strategies to attract and retain today's diverse volunteers
    • Methods to gain internal staff and leadership support for new volunteer infrastructure
    • Steps to strengthen volunteer/staff teams

Who Should Attend:
    • Volunteer coordinators and managers
    • Nonprofit agency executives
    • Corporate volunteer program staff
    • Leaders of nonprofit and membership organizations


Presenter Nancy Mac duff is an internationally recognized trainer and author. In addition to publishing books with practical techniques to deal with recruitment and retention, she offers online classes through Portland (Oregon) State University and a training newsletter, VolunteerToday.com. Based on her experience and research, she will present concepts and guide interactive exercises to adapt useful management and creative strategies to effectively engage today’s volunteers in programs to serve in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit organizations. She is the author of numerous books, including Episodic Volunteering: Organizing and Managing the Short-term Volunteer Program, and chapters in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, The Volunteer Management Handbook, and Managing Volunteer Diversity.