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NAVPLG Award Nominations are open! NAVPLG Invites Nominations for 2024 Awards Members, here is a great opportunity for you to be recognized by your national association, to bring credit to your program, or even to draw attention to another deserving individual/program. Nominations will open on April 3, 2024, and are due by April 30, 2024.
more info... | 04/03/24 -04/30/24 | 12:00 AM - 11:45 PM PST | Tara Waters |
CVA Credential Information Session Take the next step in your career as a leader of volunteers and obtain a Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Leaders in non-profit organizations and community groups increasingly understand that volunteers can be a critical resource for delivering on a mission. Effective people management and community engagement is imperative – whether they be paid or unpaid. As a result, employers expect that those individuals tasked with mobilizing and coordinating volunteer engagement demonstrate a thorough knowledge of effective practices and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge in support of real-world organizational priorities. more info... | 05/06/24 | 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM EST | |
NAVPLG Board Meeting The NAVPLG Board of Directors meet on the second Wednesday of every month. | 05/08/24 | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PST | |
NAVPLG Education Series: Dismantling the Stigma Around Court-Ordered Service and Formerly Incarcerated Volunteers Each year, millions of Americans interact with our criminal justice system. The vast majority of these individuals will be compelled to complete community service hours as a part of their sentence- often in exchange for reducing fines or avoiding incarceration. While originally well-intentioned, court-ordered service programs often place undue burdens on folks who live at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. For those convicted of crimes and recently released from incarceration, their first foothold back into the community is often nonprofit organizations, and yet, the opportunities for volunteers with criminal records are quite limited, and the amount of mandatory hours often creates financial hardship. In this session we will discuss the history of community service & diversion programs, the staggering economic value that these individuals provide to the third sector, concerns around exploitation of this compelled labor, and ways we can provide more meaningful community service to reduce recidivism rates. In this training, you will learn:
Facilitators: Bex Takacs-Britz (they/them/ Chris Boden is a passionate polymath with a storied life. He founded a little Makerspace that turned out to be kinda popular, wrote a few books, made a few videos that some people liked, survived being tossed into two different Federal prisons, and has lived a life through a lens throwing lightning bolts in front of thousands of people for decades. He’s a professional weirdo and rational optimist who is trying to balance misanthropy with philanthropy more info... | 05/15/24 | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PST | |
CVA Credential Information Session Take the next step in your career as a leader of volunteers and obtain a Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Leaders in non-profit organizations and community groups increasingly understand that volunteers can be a critical resource for delivering on a mission. Effective people management and community engagement is imperative – whether they be paid or unpaid. As a result, employers expect that those individuals tasked with mobilizing and coordinating volunteer engagement demonstrate a thorough knowledge of effective practices and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge in support of real-world organizational priorities. more info... | 05/15/24 | 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM EST | |
CVA Credential Information Session Take the next step in your career as a leader of volunteers and obtain a Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Leaders in non-profit organizations and community groups increasingly understand that volunteers can be a critical resource for delivering on a mission. Effective people management and community engagement is imperative – whether they be paid or unpaid. As a result, employers expect that those individuals tasked with mobilizing and coordinating volunteer engagement demonstrate a thorough knowledge of effective practices and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge in support of real-world organizational priorities. more info... | 06/11/24 | 07:00 AM - 08:30 AM EST | |
CVA Credential Information Session Take the next step in your career as a leader of volunteers and obtain a Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Leaders in non-profit organizations and community groups increasingly understand that volunteers can be a critical resource for delivering on a mission. Effective people management and community engagement is imperative – whether they be paid or unpaid. As a result, employers expect that those individuals tasked with mobilizing and coordinating volunteer engagement demonstrate a thorough knowledge of effective practices and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge in support of real-world organizational priorities. more info... | 06/27/24 | 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM EST | |