Commitment to our Staff & Volunteers
Framework is fortunate to engage some of the brightest and hardworking staff and volunteers from across North America. We also recognize that we have to walk-the-talk when it comes to providing our staff with the tools to enable skilled volunteerism with the organization.
Easy to do in theory, hard to manage in practice. Framework has and will continue to invest heavily in agreed-upon best practices that Imagine Canada (via their Standards Program), Vantage Point (via their People Lens strategy), Volunteer Canada (via their Code for Volunteer Involvement) and the HR Council for the Voluntary Sector (via their workforce strategy) have outlined in their respective work.
The Standards Initiative has a total of 26 best-practices related to Staff Management and 11 related to Volunteer Involvement. We want to go beyond compliant on all these standards. We also want to work as closely with volunteers from other nonprofits (such as United Way of Calgary & Area) to ensure the Timeraiser program is working.
Easy to do in theory, hard to manage in practice. Framework has and will continue to invest heavily in agreed-upon best practices that Imagine Canada (via their Standards Program), Vantage Point (via their People Lens strategy), Volunteer Canada (via their Code for Volunteer Involvement) and the HR Council for the Voluntary Sector (via their workforce strategy) have outlined in their respective work.
The Standards Initiative has a total of 26 best-practices related to Staff Management and 11 related to Volunteer Involvement. We want to go beyond compliant on all these standards. We also want to work as closely with volunteers from other nonprofits (such as United Way of Calgary & Area) to ensure the Timeraiser program is working.
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Our Commitment to Staff:
Our Staff Commitment to Volunteers:
Our Expectations of Volunteers:
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 Winnipeg Chair, Kris Frederickson. Engaged since 2006  Logistics Specialist, Sebastien Gagner. Engaged since 2004 |
Volunteer Engagement Strategy
Strategy
Approach
- Move away from traditional committee structures which are hard to schedule and prepare for/manage
- Establish a more fluid approach to developing personalized volunteer plans for individuals who want to help out across a range of activities such as corporate outreach, HR, PR/communications, ticket selling etc
- Develop an world-class training & engagement program
Approach
- Make use of Sharesies to provide more volunteers the opportunity to comment/participate in a wider range of governance & program development
- Use Web 2.0 technologies to collaborate & share mission critical information online and in real time
- Gather volunteers virtually (via conference calls) and through in-person sessions
