February Skill Builder: Communicating Volunteer Impact

From Hours to Impact, From Value to Worth: Communicating Volunteer Impact

Demonstrating results goes beyond counting the number of volunteers and the hours of service they provide to your organization.  Beth Steinhorn will explore trends and emerging tools designed to demonstrate quantitative and, more importantly, qualitative results that position volunteer engagement as a valuable and strategic resource.

Speaker: Beth Steinhorn, President of Volunteer Strategies

Speaker Bio: 

Beth partners with organizations and their leadership to increase their impact through strategic and innovative engagement. The author of multiple books and articles on strategic volunteer engagement, she is a popular speaker and trainer and has presented across the US and Canada. As a thought leader, Beth regularly participates in the national dialogue about volunteerism and engagement. She has also trained and supported dozens of organizations to become certified Service Enterprises.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Beth worked as an executive director and marketing director with education and faith-based organizations and spent years working with museums as an educator, manager, and anthropologist. She draws upon her anthropology experience skill, helping organizations through the culture shift process-from viewing volunteer management as a program to embracing engagement as a strategy to fulfill mission. Beth has a undergraduate degree from Harvard University and attended University of Washington for anthropology and museology.