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VOLUNTEER MARYLAND RESULTS
Mobilizing Citizens to Serve Across Maryland

Volunteer Maryland (VM) is a volunteer generator AmeriCorps program. Each Volunteer Maryland Coordinator is placed at a local nonprofit or government agency to mobilize the volunteers needed to serve critical human and environmental needs in those communities. Each agency partner, called a Service Site, identifies its own need for volunteers—number, types of volunteer service, location and frequency of service, etc. The VM Coordinator’s job is to help bring the site’s vision to fruition over the course of the partnership year.

To that end, VM Coordinators and local Service Sites mobilize approximately 4,000 community volunteers each year.

Building Nonprofit Capacity to Recruit and Manage Volunteers
It is a central belief of the VM program founders, staff, funders, alumni, and colleagues that community volunteers will only serve and keep serving if they are managed well.

To help develop this kind of program excellence (and to allow the site to sustain it after the end of the VM year), VM provides intensive and in-depth training, monitoring, and support for participants and partners each year.

Each year, approximately 90 percent of site partners report that they significantly increase their ability to recruit and manage volunteers as a result of the VM partnership.

Meeting Critical Community Needs
Each local Service Site partners defines its community’s particular human and environmental needs and devises a plan for mobilizing volunteers to meet those needs. Examples of volunteer activities public education and conservation of the Chesapeake Bay, tutoring and mentoring youth, neighborhood safety patrols, meal deliveries and transportation services for senior citizens and people with disabilities, and more.

Frequently Asked Questions:

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How are site partnerships and AmeriCorps members evaluated?
What are VM’s annual results?
What are VM’s cumulative results?

How are site partnerships and AmeriCorps members evaluated?
Program evaluation occurs throughout the Volunteer Maryland partnership year. Both Service Sites and AmeriCorps members set their own annual goals. Elements of the evaluation include pre-post testing, external statistical analysis, VM staff observation and reporting, and self-reporting by Service Sites and AmeriCorps members.

What are VM’s annual results?
Each year, VM partners and AmeriCorps members mobilize 4,000 local volunteers to serve 4,000 citizens in a variety of human and environmental volunteer programs. In addition, approximately 90 percent of site partners report that they significantly increase their ability to recruit and manage volunteers as a result of the VM partnership. AmeriCorps members also report significant accomplishment of their own goals, with nearly 100 percent achieving their personal and professional goals each year. AmeriCorps members also learn or strengthen their volunteer and service knowledge and skills, with approximately 85 percent reporting a statistically significant increase each year.

What are VM’s cumulative results?
Since 1992, Volunteer Maryland has partnered with over 450 local Service Sites and graduated 478 AmeriCorps members. Together, VM staff, Service Sites, and AmeriCorps members have recruited more than 73,000 volunteers and served more than one million Maryland citizens.