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September 14, 2015

Online Professional Development Opportunity: Achieving the Extension Mission Through Volunteers

Submitted by Sarah Maass

Achieving the Extension Mission Through Volunteers is an online cohort course for the novice extension professional working with volunteers to enhance and deliver Extension programs. This course will be offered January 18, 2016 - February 26, 2016 and is designed to highlight best practices in volunteer development and management and to help build staff and organizational capacity around volunteer management and development regardless of the program area.

Navigation

  • Cohort participants will receive an introductory email and link to the course site prior to the introductory week.
  • Virtual meetings, pre-recorded presentations and activities are found on the course site.
  • Click the tabs to move from one module to another. (Additional tabs will be added as the course progresses.)

Course Structure

  • During this six-week course members participate in pre-recorded sessions, readings, activities, three live webinars, interact with a wide variety of resources and hear from experts. It will take participants four to six hours each week to complete the course.

Overall course objectives

Participants will:

  • Increase volunteer management competencies.
  • Build knowledge and skills related to identifying, recruiting, selecting, and supporting volunteers.
  • Understand their own volunteer development approach, the organization’s philosophy related to volunteerism and current trends in volunteerism.

This course is being brought to you by the North Central Region 4-H Youth Development Volunteer Specialists. It is designed for all Extension program areas.

This course is valued at $250. As a North Central regional project, this course will be offered to Extension professionals for $100; use the following code, NCRVS, when you checkout after registering. Register early. After October 15, registration will be open for participants nationwide. To learn more: https://youtu.be/MKIVl8WBVkQ  Register Here

Participants will be sent detailed course information once registration closes.