Free Management Library--Nonprofit Volunteer Management
The Library topic is called "Developing and Managing Volunteer Programs" to emphasize that, for the organization and its volunteers to benefit the most from each other, volunteers should be managed as part of an overall, systematic program, somewhat similar to the systematic approach that should be used to managing employees. Certainly there are differences between how employees and volunteers are managed, but the differences are probably much less than most people realize.
The following links are to sections in this overall topic and the sections are organized in the order in which they might be needed in an organization that is starting a volunteer management program -- the order of the links themselves suggest the systematic nature of a well designed volunteer management program. Organizations that already have established programs can use this overall topic by going directly to the sections that are relevant to current priorities in their current program. The links on this site present a wide variety of perspectives and materials about volunteer management programs/systems.