US Recession Busting Offer!

What are People First-Total Solutions offering?

People First-Total Solutions are offering nine free days of Training and nine heavily discounted days of Training to Volunteer Centers or Associations of Volunteer Administrators/DOVIAs in the USA in 2009.

 

Who is it for?

Any US Volunteer center and Volunteer Association anywhere in the USA including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska

 

What do these organizations get?

Offer One: Free Training Day

Nine US Volunteer Centers or DOVIAs/ Associations of Volunteer Administrators will get a free day of training. The content of which will be unchangeable. The content has been specifically developed by People First-Total Solutions for this Recession Busting series. It is outlined below. People First -Total Solutions will cover our travel to that city. The host organisation will cover ground costs, accommodation, meals and direct training costs such as venue hire, refreshments and handout printing. The trainer comes free, however!

 

 

 

Offer Two: Discounted Training Day

Nine organizations will get training at 50 per cent of our normal rates on any of our topics. In this case, the subject choice is completely yours. The host organisation will cover round trip travel from Chicago, ground costs, accommodation meals and direct training costs such as venue hire, refreshments and handout printing. The trainer comes at a 50% reduced fee, however!

There are four remaining on offer for training to be delivered in April, June and October, 2009

Is there a catch?

Yes. As part of the program, we will be setting aside some time to let people know about our company, our services and our Volunteer Program Assessments. This will be a 15 to 30 minute presentation which will be just interesting s the rest of the day. This gives us the chance to introduce ourselves to new audiences who may not know us.

 

The timings of the trainings will be subject to the availability of the People First-Total Solutions trainers.

 

Free One Day Training Workshop Outline

This is the outline of the free day:

 

1. Volunteer Management Trends Today

2. Recession Proofing Your Volunteer Program

3. About People First -Total Solutions

4. Preparing your org for the future of volunteering OR The Ten Essentials for an Effective Program

5. Being a 21st Volunteer Manager

 

If you would like a different topic from our extensive range, then talk to us abut our special half price training opportunity.

 

Notes from the day are here:

 

Who are the available trainers?

You can choose Martin J Cowling or Kerrie Spinks to facilitate the training subject to their availability.

 

Quality of the Training

You are engaging two of the globe's leading trainers in volunteer management and not for profit issues. Our clients rate our training amongst the best they have experienced! You can see our overall average training scores here.

Apply?

Easy, email or call -1888 606 PFTS (7387)- and we can discuss timings but remember nine free plus nine discounted....no more!

 

Small Print:

  1. This offer is being made in good faith
  2. The free offer is only available in the USA including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska. It does not include Guam, American Samoa or any other territory or base. The half price offer includes every US State and Territory.
  3. The offer is available to any DOVIA or Volunteer Center in the USA but not any other type of organization
  4. There are nine free days and nine days of training being offered at 50% off our normal rates in 2009
  5. In the spirit of fairness, each organization or city can have one free day only
  6. There is a limit to the number of half price days of two per organization or location
  7. There is no trainer fee for the free sessions. The fee for the 50% off days is 50% of the People First-Total Solutions published standard rate
  8. The hosting organization (DOVIA or Volunteer Center) will pay for two nights accommodation, ground travel costs, meals and all expenses associated with the training event
  9. There are no airfare costs for the Free Days. A round trip economy fare from Chicago will be calculated for the 50% days
  10. The Free days have a fixed curriculum. For the 50% off Training Days, any topic from People First-Total Solutions curriculum can be chosen
  11. Each party will agree to a standard People First-Total Solutions MOU
  12. People First-Total Solutions will publicize their organization and their Volunteer Program Assessment product at the training
  13. The training being delivered will be of People First -Total solutions normal high standard
  14. The decisions by People First-Total Solutions in this matter are final

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Testimonials

Martin's knowledge, presentation style and practical experience of his subject makes him an interesting,effective speaker who manages to engage everyone. Excellent content, extremely relevant to the group we had.

Jan Harrison, Arthritis NZ

 

 

Kerrie has excellent knowledge. The session conducted with the Sunraysia Network of Volunteer organizations was well received and achieved all of our goals in terms of extracting some base information which will be used to formulate a regional volunteering strategy

Jane Brook, Mallee Family Care and PS Ruby

 

Trainer [Martin J Cowling} is knowledgeable and is able to share from real-life experience Trainer has good instructional skills that are suitable for adult-learning

Michael, Loh, MOVE Singapore

 

Martin did an exceptional job with both workshop sessions and a luncheon keynote. Energy and attention levels tend to drop during lunch, but Martin held their interest.

Megan Sargent
Organisation:: - Michigan Community Service Commission