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SUMMARY:Skillshare: Effective Volunteer Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Need volunteers to help with your charitable endeavors? Jo
 in Socializing for Justice for a Skillshare on Effective Volunteer Eng
 agement on October 1, 6:00 - 8:30 PM.Register at www.sojust.org - Newc
 omers always welcomed!SoJust hosts events that draw progressives of al
 l stripes that share common values but may work on different issues. W
 e create social spaces that allow for the possibility of cross-issue c
 onnections and run a Skillshare Series, hosted by The NonProfit Center
 *, which increases our individual capacity for movement building.6:00-
 6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner (microwave and water cooler a
 vailable)6:30-8:30 Training and Q & AEvent fee: $10-$20 cash at the do
 or.Effective Volunteer EngagementHow do we attract and engage motivate
 d volunteers who will further our charitable work? We will consider mo
 tivation, from the benefits of volunteering to our needs and the effor
 t required to manage/support volunteers. No prior knowledge expectedâ€
 ”We'll start with fundamentals. Participants will come away with a pos
 ition description template and strategic approaches for customized vol
 unteer recruitment and engagement.ABOUT OUR PRESENTERLori Tsuruda is t
 he founder and executive director of People Making a Difference® (PMD
 ), a non-profit which organizes one-time, hands-on volunteer projects 
 for individuals and trains and assists nonprofit leaders in quality vo
 lunteer management. She recruits and manages 750+ volunteers/year and 
 helps charities and companies improve their community involvement prog
 rams. In the past 20 years, she has engaged more than 6,300 PMD volunt
 eers in 950+ service projects helping 124 charities in Greater Boston.
  She is leading the Directors of Volunteer Administration (DOVA) in Bo
 ston for her seventh term.*DIRECTIONS (http://bit.ly/ieXreK) - The Non
 Profit Center is located one block from South Station at 89 South Stre
 et. The Center is accessible through the main lobby to people who have
  restricted physical abilities.HELP SPREAD THE WORD!Invite friends to 
 the Facebook event:http://goo.gl/iYR5QJoin the SoJust Facebook group: 
 http://on.fb.me/SoJustOn Twitter? Follow @SoJust (http://www.twitter.c
 om/sojust and SoJust's Co-Founder @RobbieSamuels (http://www.twitter.c
 om/robbiesamuels). Don’t forget to tweet about this event using #soj
 ust!_________________________________________________________Socializi
 ng for Justice - http://www.sojust.orgSoJust is all about building a c
 ross-cultural, cross-issue progressive community, network and movement
  in Boston. We're doing it by putting the SOCIAL back in SOCIAL JUSTIC
 E. We focus on creating welcoming spaces that foster relationship-buil
 ding across issue silos.SoJust isn't a non-profit 501(c)(3) and receiv
 es no outside funding. We're a grassroots volunteer-run member-support
 ed cross-issue progressive community that's been growing steadily sinc
 e August 2006. We have 2,000+ members, we have hosted 130+ events and 
 we manage an online hub of progressive events and resources at www.soj
 ust.org. If you've benefited from this cross-issue progressive network
  please contribute the suggested annual membership fee of $25. You may
  do this online (http://www.sojust.org/dues/) or at any of our events.
  Thank you for helping us continue to provide a space for like-minded 
 progressives of all stripes.Want to know more about SoJust? Check out 
 our Frequently Asked Questions- http://www.sojust.org/messages/boards/
 thread/3187615- and past event photos- http://www.sojust.org/photos/!\
 n\nFor more information visit http://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/
 skillshare-effective-volunteer-engagement
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