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  • Frances Shani Parker August 1, 2011 at 8:40am
    Wow!

    Volunteer Recruitment, Relations and Management

    really is a good resource. The Volunteer Management group, which has over 100 members, could benefit from this information. I think you should post the title and link there and mention how it helped you.
  • Paul Ikonen August 1, 2011 at 7:13am

    I could add dozens of links, here is one with some great posts.  Source: charityvillage.com

     

    http://charityvillage.com/cv/research/rvol.html

  • Frances Shani Parker August 1, 2011 at 6:46am
    Collecting and sharing free Internet resources is a good best practice. It would be good to know about best practices other volunteer coordinators use.
  • Paul Ikonen August 1, 2011 at 5:06am

    It is amazing how many free resources there are for volunteer coordinators on the internet.  Are there any recent favorites you guys have found lately?

     

    One recent one I found is this one on writing etiquette and sympathy notes.  Source: caring.com

     

    http://www.caring.com/articles/sympathy-note?utm_medium=email&u...

  • Frances Shani Parker July 31, 2011 at 2:43pm
    Just start talking about what interests you related to hospice and/or Michigan, Paul, and see what happens. (Trust me. I've done it a lot. lol)
  • Paul Ikonen July 31, 2011 at 11:16am
    I for one would love this group to be active, what should we talk about?
  • Debra Heinzelman July 31, 2011 at 8:22am

    Hello, Michigan Group,

     

    Hope all are well.  Let's keep sharing.  So much to learn from each one of us.  I am grateful to all of you.

  • Frances Shani Parker January 21, 2011 at 5:18pm
    Detroit is freezing! Toto, this doesn't feel like New Orleans!
  • Debra Heinzelman January 21, 2011 at 2:51pm

    Hello, Michigan Group,

     

    Hope all are doing well.  Marquette is freezing and we sure do have the snow. 

  • Greg Schneider January 16, 2011 at 12:59pm

    We have some information, not specific to Michigan, in the Prison Hospice Group here on the forum.

     

    We also have some info in the HVA National Hospice Document Repository (NHDR).  Go to the Document Index and scroll down to Prison Hospice.  I would also suggest accessing our NHDR Article Search, which contains 1000's of articles relating to end of life care, as you may find something there.

    Hope that helps.

    Greg Schneider

    HCF Creator

    President, HVA

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