Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster : The Synergy of Structure and Good Intentions

Abstract

This publication is offered as a basis for developing a national strategy on working with unaffiliated volunteers and is based on an analysis of effective practices and models. It is an outgrowth of an earlier publica- tion, Preventing a Disaster Within the Disaster: The Effective Use and Management of Unaffiliated Volunteers, which outlined the challenges involved in working with unaffiliated volunteers and offered recommen- dations on how to develop a national strategy.