Decent Volunteerism: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Recruitment and Screening

As formal volunteering rates decline alongside continued efforts to recruit and retain volunteers, this session will ask us to consider how organizations can promote Decent Volunteering (as aligned with Decent Work philosophies), and foster decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to volunteer recruitment and screening. Come ready to engage as we critique how systems of volunteer engagement exclude, harm, or marginalize some community members and imagine new ways of fostering communities of belonging in volunteer programs.

You'll leave this sessions with:

• An understanding of the concept of decent volunteerism and what it means to take a decolonial approach to volunteer engagement

• Approaches to critique existing systems of volunteer engagement, including the ways they exclude, marginalize, and harm communities

• Opportunities to apply decent recruitment techniques and an anti-racist lens to volunteer screening