Agency Benefits

As a Partner Agency, your organization will receive the same services and benefits available to all organizations as well as the following:

Volunteer2 (Volunteer Squared)
Volunteer2 account to update agency information directly on-line (NO activation fee!)

Promotion
Preferential promotion of Partner Agency and its volunteer needs and opportunities through:

• Participation in volunteer opportunities of the week with WAFY (Key 103.1) once or twice a year. Your agency will be able to highlight volunteer opportunities and broadcast a pre-recorded interview with a volunteer from your agency.
  
• Preferential referral of volunteers in search of service opportunities.
  
• Recruitment appeals for specific volunteer needs and events to our pool of 1400 volunteers upon request.
  
• Inclusion in twice monthly volunteer opportunity press releases to print, radio, TV and web media (including regular volunteer opportunity listings in The Frederick News-Post, The Gazette and Most Magazine).
  
• Profiling of Partner Agency and volunteer needs in Volunteer Frederick’s monthly newsletter on a rotating basis.
  
• Special Partner Agency indication on Volunteer Frederick’s website.

Volunteer Impact
Use of the state-of-the-art volunteer management software, Volunteer Impact, to manage your agency’s volunteers. (As availability and funding permits, Volunteer Frederick will provide Partner Agencies with free licenses of Volunteer Impact – a $995 value). This software will allow your agency to:

• Easily communicate with and schedule volunteers.
  
• Recruit new volunteers directly from the pool of volunteers registered through Volunteer Frederick.
  
• Save time by gathering volunteer information on-line and having it go straight into your software without having to type it in yourself.
  
• Add custom fields to the volunteer profile so you can collect whatever information your agency needs.
  
• Generate e-mail groups, mailing labels, telephone lists or export data.
  
• Generate reports on volunteer hours, number of volunteers or any number of customized fields or qualifications.

Volunteer Management Training
20% discount on all scheduled Volunteer Management Training Workshops.

Increased Resources and Services

• On-line recruitment of board members through Boardnet USA (coming in 2005).
  
• Preferential consideration for agency to serve as a host site for SummerServe or SummerServe Express service projects as well as other service projects coordinated by Volunteer Frederick (Youth Engaged in Service, Make a Difference Day, National Youth Service Day, etc.)
  
• Opportunity to promote your agency at monthly meetings of the Business Volunteer Council of Frederick County (on a rotating basis).
  
• Inclusion in future publications of the BVC agency Giving Guide ( Adobe Acrobat PDF) directory free of charge – a listing of agencies’ professional volunteer needs and in-kind goods and service needs that is distributed to area businesses.
  
• Mailed hard-copy of Volunteer Frederick’s newsletter.
  
• A quarterly report of prospective volunteers referred to your agency.

Fundraising
Earn 5% more in proceeds when participating in The BIG Sweep. (Volunteer Frederick will keep 20% of proceeds instead of the normal 25% to cover event costs, coordination and promotions).