Title: Mercersburg Academy Alumni & Development Volunteer Handbook
Project Statement:
The creation of a new volunteer handbook for the Mercersburg Academy Alumni & Development office would help to smoothly transition alumni into volunteers, offering them a variety of volunteer opportunities available in the new handbook.
Description:
The current volunteer handbook focuses on only one aspect of volunteerism at Mercersburg Academy, Class Agents. There are, however, multiple ways alumni can donate their time to the school they once attended. In order to address this, I need to research all of the different ways of volunteering at the Academy. Through talking with the Academy, I have learned that there are ten different positions that alumni can volunteer their time to be a part of: Affinity Agents, Alumni Council, Class Agents, Class Committees, Event Host Committees, Parent Volunteers (white key), Phonathons, Reunions, Thankathons, and help with the William Mann Irving Society. The research involves gathering information either present on the website, present in the Mercersburg database, or going to the respective position heads to find out more information via interview.
When finished, the volunteer handbook will be used as a promotional item to hand out to prospective volunteers, and also as a way of defining specific volunteer opportunities. It will consist of the mission statements of the school and the Alumni & Development office, an overview of why volunteerism is important to the success of the school, and the specific volunteer opportunities. Each opportunity will include a one-page write-up that will summarize the position, giving its purpose, structure, description of the different committees involved, and a description of the chair.
With this important piece in place, the Alumni & Development office can create training manuals to go along with the handbook for volunteers who wish to pursue a certain opportunity.
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