Written by: Celeste Sauls-Marks 10/5/2006 11:47 AM
Central to the VRM Roundtable efforts to build a new national association for Volunteer Resources Managers (VRMs) are the guiding principles of transparency and inclusion. (Please refer to the FAQ section of the website for the full listing of the Guiding Principles. – I will put link in) Transparency underlines the work of the Leadership Team and the Task Force as a whole. Every effort is undertaken with the vision of providing greater clarity and operating in an arena of forthrightness. Questions are honestly asked and answered in an effort to illuminate rather than obscure. This single Guiding Principle defines this project as an effort that actively seeks to support VRMs and include them in the development process. The Guiding Principle Inclusion defines the project by bringing together the diversity of thought and experience of the whole field. Participation is not limited. Through the combination of the strengths of many, the whole becomes stronger. While you may see these two words in the abstract, they are very important to the Task Force members. Any effort that does not attempt to understand the changing and developing nature of the field of volunteer resources management ignores the tremendous assets the field offers and limits its future growth and sustainability. VRMs are the driving force of volunteerism in the United States. Their collective wisdom and experience force us to reconsider former notions of growing and nurturing the field. By giving the professional VRM the voice to share their needs and concerns, the new association is reaching more broadly and substantively out to meet their needs. This project does not seek to hand the field of volunteer resources management a turn-key organization that delivers services that the Task Force members think the field needs but rather allows those in the field to share what their needs are so that the Association can continually grow in ways that will meet those needs. Also, an in-depth survey reinforced what the field said. When this project began, I continually heard the cry for change. VRMs said that their needs were not previously met and that prior efforts were cliquish and exclusionary. The VRM Roundtable is actively changing that paradigm with two words: transparency and inclusion.
Central to the VRM Roundtable efforts to build a new national association for Volunteer Resources Managers (VRMs) are the guiding principles of transparency and inclusion. (Please refer to the FAQ section of the website for the full listing of the Guiding Principles. – I will put link in)
Transparency underlines the work of the Leadership Team and the Task Force as a whole. Every effort is undertaken with the vision of providing greater clarity and operating in an arena of forthrightness. Questions are honestly asked and answered in an effort to illuminate rather than obscure. This single Guiding Principle defines this project as an effort that actively seeks to support VRMs and include them in the development process.
The Guiding Principle Inclusion defines the project by bringing together the diversity of thought and experience of the whole field. Participation is not limited. Through the combination of the strengths of many, the whole becomes stronger.
While you may see these two words in the abstract, they are very important to the Task Force members. Any effort that does not attempt to understand the changing and developing nature of the field of volunteer resources management ignores the tremendous assets the field offers and limits its future growth and sustainability. VRMs are the driving force of volunteerism in the United States. Their collective wisdom and experience force us to reconsider former notions of growing and nurturing the field. By giving the professional VRM the voice to share their needs and concerns, the new association is reaching more broadly and substantively out to meet their needs.
This project does not seek to hand the field of volunteer resources management a turn-key organization that delivers services that the Task Force members think the field needs but rather allows those in the field to share what their needs are so that the Association can continually grow in ways that will meet those needs. Also, an in-depth survey reinforced what the field said.
When this project began, I continually heard the cry for change. VRMs said that their needs were not previously met and that prior efforts were cliquish and exclusionary. The VRM Roundtable is actively changing that paradigm with two words: transparency and inclusion.
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