Volunteer Engagement and Reciprocal Partnership
Wednesday, April 22 | 1:30pm - 1:50pm
Session Description: Changing how you connect, and engage with your volunteers and strengthen community partnerships. Focusing not so much on what they can do for you, but what you can do for your volunteers and partners. This will create meaningful experiences that connect people to each other and the spaces they are volunteering in, as well as foster reciprocal support amongst community partners individual volunteers.
Learning Objectives:
- Using cultural stories and personal experiences, along with providing information and context to the volunteer activity, creates meaningful experiences where volunteers feel connected to, inspired by, and feel good about their contribution to the larger mission of your program.
- Learn ways to identify and connect with community partners by filling each other’s gaps and meeting each other’s needs, providing a reciprocal partnership. m.
Speakers: Richard Madison, Amy Boucher
About the Speakers: Richard has been with Metro Tacoma for 10 years and serves as Community Outreach and Special Projects Coordinator for the Chip-In program, along with currently serving as safety committee chair. He attended Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma and Dixie State University in Southern Utah. A father of three, he enjoys camping and boating with his wife and family.
Amy provides support to CHIP-In and Natural Area Stewards. She engages with communities and encourages people to get out and connect to nature in their local natural areas by volunteering. Amy’s passion to connect, serve, and restore, along with her technical skills and knowledge gained at the University of Washington Tacoma, allows her to mobilize people to act. Amy is a mother of 4 and loves spending time with her family and connecting to nature.
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