Recruit and maximize your volunteers with the Volunteer Impact Program. Through this partnership between United Way of King County and 501 Commons, now in its third year, your organization can gain the tools to bring high-value volunteers on board, as well as utilize and retain them.

The free VIP program provides more than $20,000 in assessment, training and consulting services to boost your organization’s ability to engage and manage volunteers. In an era of diminishing financial resources, this is a real plus.

Take community newspaper Real Change, for example.

With its regular staff of only 11, volunteers are essential to the newspaper’s capacity to deliver on its mission. Last year, 240 volunteers contributed more than 7,000 hours of service, worth about $105,000, says Jenn Pearson, Real Change volunteer coordinator. After participating in VIP this year, Real Change has already improved the way it screens and matches volunteers, introduced a culture of appreciation for volunteers, and invested in a volunteer database that has significantly improved efficiency, Pearson notes.

If you’d like this kind of success for your organization, participate in VIP. Applications are due Jan. 16, 2012, for the upcoming February 2012 session.
Learn more about VIP and the application process >>
See how VIP has helped strengthen volunteer programs for 19 hunger and 17 early-learning groups >>