AFP San Diego

Chapter Luncheon & Workshop
Friday, October 2, 2009

 Doubletree Hotel Mission Valley

Chapter Meeting & Luncheon Program
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsored in part by San Diego Grantmakers

Volunteer Leaders
How to Engage and Keep Them Involved
Linda Katz

Volunteer leadership is critical to the success of any mature non-profit organization. Fundraising professionals are often the link with volunteer leaders for both general agency management and development activities. Linda Katz will discuss ways to maximize the skills and abilities of volunteers to achieve organizational goals and objectives and to give volunteers a meaningful experience. She’ll share stories from her own experiences about how to motivate and engage volunteer leaders to become assets, particularly in fundraising.  

About the Speaker:

Linda Katz,  has served as a community leader and volunteer in the San Diego region for 30 years.

Linda is the Founding President of The San Diego Women’s Foundation.  She is a past Board Chair of LEAD San Diego, Planned Parenthood of San Diego & Riverside Counties, Senior Community Centers and Children’s Hospital Auxiliary.  Other Boards Linda has served on include:  Rady Children’s Hospital Foundation, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, The San Diego Foundation, Francis Parker School, Junior League of San Diego and the San Diego Symphony.

Linda has served as Chair and Co-Chair of many milestone charitable events in the San Diego community including: Girl Scouts' 10th Anniversary Urban Campout, the 90th Anniversary Charity Ball, benefitting Rady Children's Hospital, The San Diego Foundations' 25th Anniversary Gala and the San Diego Symphony’s New Year’s Eve Gala.

Currently, Linda serves on the United Way of San Diego County Board of Directors as well as United Way's Women's Leadership Council Steering Committee.  Linda also Chairs Girl Scouts Promise Circle Steering Committee, as well as serving on the District Attorney’s Women’s Advisory Council.

Linda has received numerous awards including:  San Diego Magazine’s ‘Community Volunteer of the Year’ Award, Planned Parenthood’s ‘Margaret Sanger Award’, Senior Community Center’s ‘Advocacy Hero Award’, Girl Scout’s ‘Cool Woman Award’ and the Association of Fund Raising Professional’s ‘Development Volunteer of the Year Award’.

Linda and her husband Mel have been married for 33 years and live in Del Mar.  They have three grown children, Lindsey, Ashley and Jeffrey and one granddaughter, Nicole.

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Speaker: Sue Carter

Volunteers are often seen as nice but not necessary. It is difficult to build a volunteer program when an organization’s culture does not value the contributions volunteers make. This session will cover trends in service that are influencing the prospective volunteers who want to work with you and what you can do to align your program with their expectations. It will give you tools for building a volunteer-friendly culture. Topics include volunteer engagement verses volunteer management; volunteer matching and expectations; turning your organization needs into meaningful volunteer opportunities; generational and skilled volunteer needs; and ways to define volunteer value.

About the Speaker:

Sue Carter joined Volunteer San Diego as Executive Director in February 2006. Sue frequently speaks about volunteerism and has presented at national, state, and local conferences. She was appointed to the California State Commission on Service, California Volunteers, by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2008. During her tenure, Volunteer San Diego received the Romney Award of Excellence, the highest national honor for a volunteer center, and was named one of the “Best Places to Work” in San Diego.
 
Sue has 15 years of experience in nonprofit volunteer coordination, fundraising, public relations, strategic planning, program development and operations and holds a Master’s in Social Work Administration. She is a lifetime member of Girl Scouts. Currently, she is an executive coach who mentors nonprofit executives through the Fieldstone Leadership Network.

Volunteer San Diego is the premier provider of volunteer programs and services in San Diego County. Annually, Volunteer San Diego helps fill 51,000 volunteer positions at 700 community organizations.