Moving Toward a Collective Impact Effort: The Volunteer Program Assessment

Authors

Sheridan Trent, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Kelly Prange, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Joseph A. Allen, University if Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-29-2017

Publication Title

Collective Impact Strategies

Volume

28

Issue

4

First Page

65

Last Page

80

Abstract

Volunteers are essential to the operation of many nonprofits, but some experience challenges in retaining their volunteer workforce. The Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) seeks to address this issue by helping organizations to identify strengths, growth areas, and recommendations for improving volunteer experiences. To maximize the effectiveness of VPA’s mission, the organization is moving toward a collective impact (CI) approach. Although not developed as a CI effort, the program currently exemplifies many of its characteristics, which have been instrumental in expanding reach to more organizations. We examine VPA’s alignment with collective impact and outline how VPA will continue to improve efforts.

Comments

© 2017 The authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

This original article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.18060/21746, hosted by Metropolitan Universities journal (https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/index).

Recommended Citation

Trent, Sheridan; Prange, Kelly; and Allen, Joseph A., "Moving Toward a Collective Impact Effort: The Volunteer Program Assessment" (2017). Psychology Faculty Publications. 197.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/psychfacpub/197