Hospice Volunteer Training Online - Choosing the Path of Service

We are now seeing implementation of the idea that AmeriCorps (and also Senior Corps) members can be deployed as volunteer coordinators in organizations that do not have staff to lead volunteer involvement. Susan examines the potential and concerns of this initiative and concludes: "It is absolutely critical that we, as professionals in volunteer management, monitor these developments and get involved early, rather than too late." What do you think?

Conspicuous by their absence in many settings are volunteers with a direct, personal connection to the work of the organization: recipients of service, their families and friends, or people in the immediate neighborhood of the facility. These are the folks the staff serves, and therefore are not considered as a source of talent themselves. Why not?