Program Officer for Volunteer Initiatives: January 2022

Major Projects Underway

  • GSA/Roll of Honor open for nominations and online. 
  • Looking for GSA committee to help with selecting winners for this coming year.
  • Service Learning training has kicked off.
  • Service Enterprise cohort has begun.
  • CMV course has some issues with links and downloading. We may need to skip a session to give Kelsey time to fix issues.
  • Maine Service Fellows advisory committee meeting, developed Sponsor Requirements. Next steps will be Fellows requirements and application processes for both sponsors and fellows. 

Upcoming Project Focus

  • Certification in Volunteer Administration has a testing window in April. Kelsey will be leading a study group to start this month.
  • Need to get training for CERT programs, and recruiting youth organizations for CERT, Kelsey will be creating an RFP to contract with someone to help with this effort. 
  • Volunteer Generation Fund's ARP funding has not been announced yet -- however we are beginning to strategize how we would apply these funds and which organizations to partner with. 

Ongoing

  • E&E Task Force
  • Maine Volunteer Mangers Network: Hawley Carlson of Volunteer West Virginia went over a rural volunteerism curriculum that was developed with Tobi Johnson of Volunteer Pro. February is Kelsey talking about suing your volunteers as recruiters.