Building and Motivating Your Volunteer Team (in-person)

Nonprofits often rely on volunteer service to keep budgets in line while fulfilling the mission. For many organizations, volunteers are your team. We will discuss where to find them, how to retain them, and how to train them. Besides learning about volunteer management, your trainer will share team building ideas and creative ways to continually thank your volunteer team. This session is for anyone who manages volunteers and would like to improve team dynamics and keep everyone working towards the mission.

In this session you will learn about the:

• Importance of volunteers in nonprofits - as energy, as labor, as donors, as spokespersons
• Ways to recruit, organize, and train volunteers
• Teams of volunteers as a staffing structure
• Team building ideas
• Creative examples of thanking volunteers

About your trainer:

Deann Servos is the Executive Director of Prodisee Pantry, Baldwin County’s largest emergency food pantry that provides thousands of families with groceries and hope! She is one of three women who founded this community ministry in 2003. She is a graduate of Emerging Leaders – Small Business Administration’s Streetwise MBA program, a graduate of Penn State and was an accomplished broadcast journalist before answering the call to start Prodisee Pantry. The Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce presented her with the 2016 Community Leader Award. She is a member of North Baldwin, Central Baldwin and the Eastern Shore Chambers of Commerce and serves on the Local Emergency Planning Committee of Baldwin County’s Emergency Management Agency, is Past-Chair of Baldwin County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, on the North Baldwin Infirmary Foundation Board and with twenty years of nonprofit experience she is a mentor and active in several other nonprofits. She is the proud mom of three children and is married to Mark, her husband of 29 years. They all live on the family farm in Stapleton.