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The "Just a Volunteer" Syndrome
  “Just a volunteer…” How often do you hear these words spoken at your organization? The implication that these three words indicate a lack of ability, lack of trust or lack of accountability is worrying. We all know, after all, that volunteer indicates a pay category, not a…
Sheri Wilensky Burke
Feature Articles
July 2021
Creating a Volunteer Career Ladder: Evolving Volunteers
When volunteer management consultant Sheri Wilensky Burke hears about an organization’s poor volunteer retention, she often discovers that the organization has not defined retention goals. “It’s common to set goals for recruiting volunteers and other metrics, but often…
Sheri Wilensky Burke
Feature Articles
January 2018
Peer Career Coaching: Investing in Your Professional Development
How many of you have actually taken the time to create a strategy for your own professional development? Have you considered what you would like to achieve professionally over the next year or the next five? So many of us discuss the need to professionalize volunteer management…
Sheri Wilensky Burke and Gerald (Jerry) Pannozzo, CVA
Feature Articles
April 2012
Learning and Sharing with Technology
Founded in 1904, the American Lung Association is the nation’s oldest voluntary health agency. Our work throughout our first century has been innovative – ours was the first disease-specific organization to couple the skills and expertise of the medical professional with the…
Sheri Wilensky Burke
Training Designs
October 2002
Volunteers Lead the Crusade Against Tuberculosis: the Founding of the American Lung Association
The founding of the American Lung Association is intertwined with the work of many courageous volunteers who began by fighting the dreaded scourge of tuberculosis at the end of the 19th century. Read the stories of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, the first volunteer president of…
Sheri Wilensky Burke
Voices from the Past
April 2003

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