Visionary Leadership in Volunteer Programs: Insight and Inspiration from the Speeches of Marlene Wilson - Tapa blanda

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In 1968, Marlene helped create and became the executive director of The Volunteer and Information Center of Boulder County, Colorado. This was the first volunteer center in Colorado and one of only a few existing in the United States. The center became a national model for developing volunteer centers across the country. She then founded The University of Colorado Volunteer Management Certificate Program in 1972, the first program of its kind to provide volunteer management training for volunteer professionals. Marlene served as faculty director until the program's end on its 25th Anniversary in 1997.Marlene is a former editor-in-chief of the Volunteer Administration Journal. In 2001, she hosted the radio talk show Ask the Experts on KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona. From 2003-2005, she served as an advisor to Group Publishing s Church Volunteer Central. Since 1975, Marlene has served as president of her own publishing and consulting firm, Volunteer Management Associates. She continues to write and consult on a limited basis.Marlene Wilson s basic philosophy about volunteerism is summed up in these few words (for which she was quoted by President George H. Bush during National Volunteer Week in 1991): Caring must strengthen into commitment and commitment into action.