Tool Kit to Start a City Volunteer Program
Tool Kit For Starting or Strengthening a City Volunteer Program
Published in 2015
Cities across Minnesota and across the country are taking a new look at involving residents as volunteers for the City. The primary reason is to expand what the City can accomplish. However, cities are also finding volunteer engagement connects the City with residents, creates community among residents, and builds civic pride.
Seeing this rise in interest by cities in volunteer engagement, MAVA started an initiative in 2014 to gather lessons learned from cities on involving volunteers to share with other cities. This initiative, funded by the Bush Foundation, connected with 60 cities of all sizes in Minnesota to gain their experiences with volunteers and share what has been learned.
Ten steps for starting or strengthening a City volunteer program came from the lessons learned by the initiative. The information contained in the Tool Kit was developed by cities in Minnesota as part of developing a City volunteer program.