Volunteer program assessment vpa

Surveys completed since across six VPA teams are used as normative data to provide client organizations insights into the issues the many other volunteer programs struggle with and inform best practice recommendations. NIU VPA representatives partner with the organization to manage the collection of survey responses from their volunteers, generate a report with an executive summary of the results, and share and discuss the report during a final consultation call.

The volunteer survey assesses individual and organizational outcomes like burnout and intention to remain a volunteer. We work with coordinators of volunteer programs to help them understand what the results of this survey means for the perceptions and attitudes of their volunteers and provide them with ideas to improve their volunteer program. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. Sign me up. The VPA is an online survey provided to volunteer coordinators to administer to their volunteers.

The information collected addresses a variety of individual and organizational outcomes. VPA consultants guide nonprofit leaders through the survey process, provide sample emails to send to their volunteers, and help interpret the results of the survey.

In addition to client-specific results, VPA also provides clients with normative data, based on surveys completed since The normative database provides insights into the common challenges experienced by many volunteer programs.

Graduate students from the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program, along with undergraduate students, volunteer their time to support VPA. For the academic year, VPA at ISU has 5 active graduate student consultants and 3 undergraduate student assistants.