
Disaster Volunteers
Recruiting and Managing People Who Want to Help
Description
Key Features
- Includes sample materials for use by emergency managers, emergency managers, civic and faith-based
organizations - Provides case studies offering first-hand experiences that help bring the content to life
- Includes stepwise advice to recruit, train, and retain a diverse set of disaster volunteers
Readership
Emergency management professionals concerned with how to manage large numbers of spontaneous as well as affiliated volunteers. Emergency Management education/degree programs
Table of Contents
1. Why do people volunteer?
2. Who manages disaster volunteers? Why manage volunteers?
3. What to expect with volunteers
4. Recruiting and training disaster volunteers
6. Managing spontaneous unaffiliated volunteers
7. Affiliated disaster volunteers
8. Managing international volunteers
9. The benefits of volunteering
10. The future of disaster volunteerism
Product details
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2020
- Published: January 21, 2020
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128138465
- eBook ISBN: 9780128138472