How can you ‘bake-safety’ into a volunteer program from the beginning? A business case inspired by the November 23, 2023 conference Non-Profit and Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation.
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Notes About a Safe Space – OHS and the Non-Profit
How has the 2018 amendment to Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation affected non-profits? The November 2023 conference examined this question.
Continue readingA Poor Man’s (non-profit’s) Volunteer System
A kludge [1] of a volunteer management system created by the Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) for its 2024 Event-Day.
Continue readingSafety and the Volunteer: How to Comply With/Excel at AB’s OHS Requirements
A conference on how small-non-profits (SNP) can navigate their obligations under Alberta’s occupational, health, and safety (OHS) legislation.
Continue readingBirkie – Sign Me UP!
The Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) relies on 500+ volunteers. While many of these volunteers are returning, some may want to try something new or a complete newbie may express their interest. A WordPress form and a Google Sheet collects this interest.
Continue readingThe Birkie Catalog of Opportunities
Supporting the previous website step, the key data fields needed to describe each of the volunteer roles for the Birkie.
Continue readingTelling the Volunteer Story(ies)
To improve its volunteer management processes, the first step for the Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) took was to create a dedicated website. While this site will be folded back into the pre-existing web presence, this new site side-stepped several technical problems.
Continue readingA Spell (and Birch) Binding Use Case
The first in a (hopefully) series of how the Canadian Birkebeiner can create a best in class in experience for its 500+ volunteers.
Continue readingSurveying a Sea of Description
The results of a time-limited survey of volunteer role descriptions. The common fields used and their definitions.
Continue reading(A) Typical Volunteer
A Matrix that combines two dimensions to define volunteer roles. The dimensions are the length of time for the volunteer role and the classic ARCI responsibility matrix.
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Organizational Biology 