NAWA: Volunteer Management in Blue and Grey Skies: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

Note: This is not a Serve Washington hosted event. However, nonprofits, volunteers, service commissioners and interested individuals in all states are welcome to attend. For registration information, please visit the Nonprofit Association of Washington website.

Disasters are rarely predicted and never welcomed, so proactive preparedness is crucial. Join Kentucky Nonprofit Network and Serve Kentucky for a virtual event to help nonprofit staff and board members make a plan for recruiting, managing, and retaining volunteers in their disaster preparedness and subsequent relief efforts.

In the keynote presentation by the team from Hands On Nashville, you’ll learn about the landscape of disasters and the role of volunteers; key lessons learned from past responses; a community-based approach for both proactive and reactive collaboration; and best practices and recommendations for developing policies and keeping volunteers engaged even in “blue skies.”

Then, a panel of nonprofit leaders fresh from disasters in Western and Eastern Kentucky will share lessons learned, successes, and challenges from their own recent experiences.

It will conclude with a presentation by Serve Kentucky, the state service commission, on their disaster-related platforms and how they can help nonprofits connect with disaster-related volunteer opportunities and/or potentially help organizations recruit volunteers in general.

Join KNN, Serve Kentucky, and your colleagues from across the state and learn together how to best prepare for and recover from disaster with the help of our communities.

Agenda: 

10:00am ET/ 7:00am PT – Keynote Presentation – From Reactive to Proactive: Hands On Nashville’s Approach to Volunteer Management in Disasters – Nelly Pérez Meléndez, Lori Shinton, and Alexandra Dorman

11:25am ET/ 8:25am PT – Lessons Learned from KY Nonprofit Leaders (Danielle Clore of KNN facilitates a discussion with Josh Mullins, Hindman Settlement School and Heath Duncan, Habitat for Humanity Pennyrile Region & Hopkins County Long-Term Recovery Group)

12:10pm ET/ 9:10am PT – Serve Kentucky Presentation / Demo

12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT – Event concludes

Cost

$10 for individual NAWA Members (check the member resources page for the coupon code)

$40 for NAWA Member teams/boards (check the member resources page for the coupon code)

$20 for individual Not-yet-members.

For registration information please visit the Nonprofit Association of Washington website.