FW: VA SCN's Project Reconnect coming --- for you!

[Nan Hawthorne]

Please accept my apologies if you have already received this message via
vol-announce!

And one clarification: the deadlines mentioned below apply only to the
"requalifying" volunteer tasks that will be offered as part of Project
Reconnect.

NH

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Dear SCN Volunteer:

The SCN Human Resources Committee will be sending you an e-mail in a couple
weeks that will announce a special project we have undertaken called "Project
Reconnect".  The purpose of the project is to do something of an "audit" of each
volunteer's status in the SCN volunteer program.  Even more important, Project
Reconnect is designed to offer those of you who have been itching to get
involved again but haven't  known quite how an easy-to-handle and enjoyable
selection of volunteer tasks to take on.

YOU DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING YET

You don't need to do anything right now --- wait for the official Project
Reconnect launch in early July.  But as the spearhead of the project, I wanted
to introduce myself and let you know what to expect.

Just briefly, my name is Nan Hawthorne.  I am best known in this area as a
consultant, trainer and Internet resource developer on the topic of effective
volunteer management.  I set up and run CyberVPM.com http://www.cybervpm.com and
do contract work as web site content editor and web- and listmaster for a few
different organizations.  I am partially sighted and use adaptive software,
which is why I love the Internet so passionately --- a level playing field, as
they say.   I'm delighted to have become a part of SCN!

PROJECT RECONNECT

Now on to the important part: Project Reconnect.  We here at SCN have a terrific
pool of volunteer talent, skill and enthusiasm to draw from.  I have worked with
literally thousands of volunteers, and I am very impressed with the skill and
dedication I see here!  But as the  project name implies, it is apparent that
many of you have "lain fallow" , so to speak, for a number of reasons.  Since
there are oodles of things to do and enjoy doing, that is a terrible waste,
don't you agree?  So the HR Committee has been working hard to set up a way to
accomplish both the audit and the reconnection (get it? <g>) accomplished!

THE BASIC PLAN

1.  We have already gotten as many of you as we can identify onto this special
vol-announce mail list (thanks, Jim!(

2.  We are harvesting the names )and e-mail addresses) of more working
volunteers all the time by talking to the various team coordinators (hardware,
webmasters, help desk, IP, etc.) (Thanks, Mel!)

3.  We are also working with these coordinators to cement a _good_ list of
roles/tasks in each team and to identify a selection of both short, one-time and
ongoing roles/tasks to offer to volunteers who want to reconnect.

4.  The upcoming aforementioned e-mail on vol-announce will list this selection,
but it will also ask you to choose your volunteer status from among these
choices:

     a.  Currently active and assigned (we'll ask you to help us update our
information on what your role/task is.)

     b.  Want to reactivate (see item 5)

     c.  Do not want an assignment right now but do want to be added to a pool
of reserve volunteers available for special projects or        	events.

     d.  Want to be considered inactive.

We will have a form, set up on the SCN web site where you can easily make your
choices.  You will have to choose one of these by a certain date (probably
mid-August) or we'll assume you want to be considered inactive.

5.  For those of you who want to get reconnected, we will ask you to take on one
of the list of roles/tasks that I mentioned in item 3 in order to qualify for
full active SCN volunteer status.  You will have a time period in which to
complete your assignment --- probably two-three months.  You will stay on this
mail list unless you do not complete your assignment.

6.  Those of you who don't want to take on a requalifying assignment will be
taken off vol-announce and moved to a new mail list, vol-reserve.  There you
will hear about special projects.

7.  Those who want to be considered inactive or who do not respond to our
official Project Reconnect announcement will come off all volunteer mail lists
with our thanks for all your past help and support.

8.  We will contact team coordinators to give them the names of both those who
are active and want to reconnect so they can be sure to know who you are and
what you want to do.

9.  We will ask these coordinators to report what the two of you arrange and
whether it works out.

10.  Nothing.  There is no tenth item.  (Sorry, couldn't resist this...)

DESIRED OUTCOME

Like I said, this is all about being sure that each and every one of you has the
opportunity to have the one thing every volunteer wants, no matter who they are
or where they volunteer: a chance to be effective in their volunteer work.  This
can best be accomplished by having an authoritative list of volunteers and as
many as want to be actively supporting the work of the organization.

Again, you don't need to do anything right now except be on the lookout for the
official Project Reconnect launch!

Thanks very much!  And thanks to the HR Committee!

Cordially,

Nan Hawthorne, Co-coordinator
SCN Human Resources Committee
nanh at scn.org

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