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z_ C zefe d | e t t y s 2 RSDWIL NEWSLETTER ! =--------------__________°neennnge.. _/ | Hello WI Members! Brgnches now have two ways to report communities. I have been asked a few questions their volunteer hours: Consider the impact your Branch has on regarding the reporting procedure for 1) All hours contributed to your community with the following | volunteer hours and Education Reports -- _ planning/hosting/participating in a equation: | so I thought that I would send an ROSE Session are reported on the Estimate of the Value of Volunteer email to answer some of your questions. _ attached "ROSE Session Profile Form." _ Activity (EVVA) = Total number of Please share this information with those _ You can send these reports to the volunteer hours x Approx. hourly wage that it pertains to. Provincial Office after each session. rate** (available from Education Report: 2) All other volunteer hours I%_tatistics Clanafifa) 19e are reported individually on the or example -- if each volunteer As you may be awate (due to member "Volunteer Hours -- Branch Report hour is valued at approx. $12.00/hour feedback) the Education, Resolutions : & ; 3 ; : ; & Worksheet" (available from Branch and in 2003 FWIO contributed over | and Public Relations reports have been 3 d th 4 ; 500,000 hours of volunteer service -- that | eliminated at the Provincial fiifztm) o epmecemnace, _ would mean that thi Level (these reports can still be done at _ RCraSC®: meotines en ) onthe isetion has i s d Area, District and Branch level if you Brancfl Donations and Hour Summary C sTrion Alfacne i on e | wish). Because of this, the Education Report® (to be completed and sent to is o en ies ' report has been replac:ed with the ROSE your District Secretary). aptoss Uintat15. -Thls :s eremarksble | Session Profile Form (attached). All At the end of the year, we will combine amount to cont.rlbute. | other educational programs do not need _ the total number of volunteer hours * TORC: Valumg the Rural | to be reported at the provincial level -- from ROSE with the hours that the VolunteerToolkit www .torc.on.ca { but they can be at the Branches have reported on the Hour ** Michelle Goulbourne and Don i | Branch/District/Area level if you wish. _ Summary Reports. Branches are Embuldeniya: Assigning an economic _ | | You may be wondering what a ROSE welcome to keep a record of bo_th ROSE _ value to volunteer activity: Eight tools i Session is and how it compares to a fiours and Branch hours for their ow for efficient program management. | Branch Program? A ROSE Session purposes. Available www.nonprofitscan.ca | ! must have two things to be a ROSE Note ***Please do not "Double What constitutes a Volunteer Hour? Session: Report" ROSE hours -- ROSE volunteer Any time that you are in the position of a) must be educational, and hours are not included in your Branches _ a WI member -- this is considered a | | b) must invite the public to attend. total number of volunteer hours volunteer hour. For example, Branch ' If you are wondering if the programs Vaiging fur Voluntsers! meetings, preparation, travel otc. | | you have been holding are ROSE Volunteers make strong communities. _ Anytime you are _dc_)mg anythmg on | | Sessions -- please call Julie Annett at the _ Volunteers are truly an irreplaceable behalf of _the WI it is considered | | Provincial Office (519) 836--3078 or and valuable contribution to any veluntesring. If you valuniéer at ts | email roseprogram@fwio.on.ca organization or group. Traditionally local nursing home (not on b chalf Of. | | Volunteer Houre there are two ways that we can express WI) than this would not be included in | | m & the value of our volunteers; your volunteer hours. | | At the request of members, the FWIO through social and economic values. In (information taken from 2002 Volunteer S;O\rgi lftlmBO?rd hatvfe charl\ge:i t addition to the social contributions that Information Report) | g format for volunteer hours 4 xi | iss nopeo dortne ehenges i enoelts . Conmiecn mhe dilgo. tb Gropate® -- Thank you for taking the time to read | the reporting for individual members, f miggn . thls_long email! Please feel tree_ to cgll Estt $ c Nok charitable organizations to extend their me if you need any further clarification. | | WE ?' e same time providing budgets beyond what they could ; | | ~justification for grant money received, _ otherwise afford*. 'g'g;ggn eft M | -- involvement of members in FWIO as a _ One of the ways that we can FWIO Orf(})vlgcr:m w Community Volunteer Organization, demonstrate our value and importance 7382 Wellingeton Rd. 30 and to communities, grant--givers, RRS Guelp; ON ' -- an available record when volunteer stakeholders, partners ete. is by KiH AO p> hours are required for a census or for tax _ providing a total number of volunteer h k e credit purposes" hours contributed to communities. This Phone (al 91'52."6_3978 (As stated on the Volunteer Hours -- allows us to determine an approximate loX (5,19) 836'943,0 | Branch Report Form for 2004). "value" we have invested in--kind to Website. www fwic.on.calrose