[Nhcoll-l] The Volunteer Handbook online course starts November 4

[Helen Alten]

MS 259: The Volunteer Handbook
Instructor: Karin Hostetter
Dates: Nov 4 to Nov 29, 2013
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Volunteers should be considered unpaid staff and, like a staff handbook, 
a strong volunteer organization should have a volunteer handbook. This 
course goes beyond understanding various aspects of a volunteer program 
to putting the volunteer program to paper. Create an outline and some 
draft text for a handbook providing consistency within the volunteers as 
well a legal support if ever needed.

Logistics:
Participants in The Volunteer Handbook work at their own pace through 
sections and interact through online chats. Instructor Karin Hostetter 
is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. 
Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs includes online literature and 
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 
participants.

The Volunteer Handbook runs four weeks. To learn more about the course, 
go to http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms259.html If 
you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
Karin Hostetter has over thirty years experience with museum education. 
Karin has worked with volunteers throughout her career, becoming the 
first paid volunteer coordinator at the Denver Zoo. Ms. Hostetter taught 
the National Association for Interpretation's two-day volunteer 
management course for volunteer coordinators and served on their panel 
about volunteer programs. She authored a series of articles for the 
National Association for Interpretation's Legacy magazine, providing 
guidelines for developing and maintaining a volunteer organization.

Ms. Hostetter now consults with organizations on structuring and 
improving volunteer programs. Karin Hostetter is owner of Interpret 
This, a consulting company specializing in interpretive writing, program 
and curriculum development, and volunteer program management. When she 
is not consulting with other museums, she likes to volunteer and 
contract teach at them with a special love for preschool and family 
programs.

-- 
Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org