Does your organization have a youth volunteer program? Are you looking to start a youth volunteer program? Join us to learn how you can utilize the power of youth to support your organization’s mission.
Youth volunteers are a vital resource in the non-profit sector. Many young people are required by their schools to fulfill service hour requirements. Youth need to gain real life experience to help with college and job applications. Young people are often overlooked as an asset to a non-profit organization out of fear that working with them will be too difficult. Youth may also be misjudged as being unreliable.
This presentation will give you tools and tips on working with youth, ideas on how to build a successful youth volunteer program and how to make a good program better!
Speaker Bio: April Anderson is the Director of Volunteer Programs at Zoo Atlanta. She has held this position since 2018. April has built a robust volunteer program at the Zoo. The youth components include the JOEY program (8 -13 year olds) and the Volunteen program (High school students 14-17). Prior to her position at Zoo Atlanta, April was the Education Coordinator at the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey. Her college degree in fine arts led her to this role where she directed the Youth summer camp program and taught youth art classes along with managing the Museum's volunteer programs.
Outside of her paid volunteer positions, April volunteered for many years with the American Red Cross, 4-H and Girl Scouts of America. After participating as a youth in these organizations she became a youth mentor, advocate and adviser. April was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award with the American Red Cross for her service in youth leadership.
April has the unique ability to understand the needs of volunteers. She has advocated for youth participation in all the organizations she has been involved with.
