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Direct linkEllis, Susan J. – Our Children: The National PTA Magazine, 2011
The challenge today is how to make e-mail and other forms of electronic communication effective in motivating volunteer action. Is it possible to make e-mails feel personal and welcoming? E-mail, instant messaging, texting, and social media are tools that allow individuals to communicate quickly and inexpensively, but they are lifeless without the…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Strategies
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book outlines issues of concern to top decision makers in a nonprofit organization that involves volunteers, including the role of the executive staff in supporting the volunteer program. The 12 chapters in the book discuss the following topics: developing a vision for volunteer participation; questions of policy; budgeting and other resource…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book is designed to help nonprofit organizations recruit and retain volunteers. Following an introductory section covering the recruitment and use of volunteers, it contains 14 chapters organized in 3 sections. The chapters in the first section discuss what volunteer recruiters need to do before actually asking anyone to volunteer. They…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
Ellis, Susan J. – Currents, 1994
Strategies for recruiting and keeping alumni for college volunteer programs address specific issues: demands on personal time; length of assignment; accommodating spouses and divorced alumni; generation gaps; advancing technology; economic climate; occupational and geographic mobility; and competition with other organizations for volunteers' time.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alumni, College Administration, Competition
Ellis, Susan J. – Currents, 1996
Five strategies for recruiting and motivating college alumni club leaders are outlined, including focusing on collaboration among volunteers as much as on leader qualities, recruiting volunteers to support leaders, allowing key volunteers to make contributions that don't require much of their time, maintaining continuity of policy and practice,…
Descriptors: Alumni Associations, College Administration, Cooperation, Higher Education
Ellis, Susan J. – Literacy Practitioner, 1996
The current promotion of diversity encourages people from assorted backgrounds and mutual goals to find compatible but not necessarily identical ways to work together. Each literacy program will have a different need to expand its circle. It must consider all the characteristics that might widen its constituency, analyze all participants, and be…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Institutional)
