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The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition
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The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

by David O. Renz, William A. Brown, Fredrik O. Andersson
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 26m
English
Jossey-Bass
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVELEADING AND MANAGING VOLUNTEERS1

Rebecca Nesbit

Volunteers are an essential part of society's social and economic fabric. In the United States, an estimated four out of five public charities work with volunteers (Hager and Brudney, 2004a), as do government agencies at all levels (Brudney and Kellough, 2000; Brudney, 1986; Nesbit and Brudney, 2013). Approximately one-fourth of the U.S. population volunteers in any given year, donating over 4.1 billion hours of service to nonprofit and public organizations (Americorps, 2021). Yet despite the clear importance and prevalence of volunteering, nonprofits invest relatively little in volunteer program design and management. Few nonprofits employ a full-time, paid volunteer manager, ...

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