The Care and Feeding of Volunteers

How do you keep wonderful volunteers?  By caring for them and nurturing them.  This workshop will help you identify what’s furthering that goal, and what is not.  Just as with your doctor, an annual check-in with each volunteer is a must.  Michael Jacoby Brown will demonstrate how to have a one-on-one conversations to better understand why each person volunteers and what keeps them engaged.   Please come prepared with experiences and questions about working with volunteers.

About the Speaker

Michael Jacoby Brown’s passion is strengthening the effectiveness of social justice organizations and helping people uncover their gifts and use them. He has over thirty years of experience as a community organizer, non-profit executive director, trainer, and consultant with community, social justice, labor, religious, government, and health organizations. He’s trained hundreds of community and labor organizers who’ve gone on to lead campaigns and organizations.

Brown is the author of Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World.  He founded the Jewish Organizing Initiative, where he served as Executive Director for ten years.  Brown is a board member of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods and Dunk the Vote 4Ever, and an active member of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, MA, where he previously served on the board and as Vice President of Tikkun Olam (Social Justice).