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NOVAA hosts a variety of workshops, learning communities, happy hours, morning meet-ups and more throughout the year. 


Upcoming events

    • April 06, 2023
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Offered remotely via Zoom
    Register



    Are you interested in gaining board experience, making great professional connections, and supporting NOVAA's work in the community? Join the Board! 

    NOVAA is an all-volunteer team providing resources for leaders in volunteer management through trainings, workshops, and networking events for a membership of 200+, and we are looking for new board members to join us for 2023-2024 fiscal year!

    As a member of the board, you can gain valuable professional experience, and work with an awesome team in a collaborative environment to help support our members through planning and administering workshops and other professional development and networking events, and more! 

    Want to learn more about the NOVAA board? Join us for this virtual info session to hear from current board members to learn about open positions, board service, and ask questions. View position descriptions here.


    • April 13, 2023
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Offered remotely via Zoom
    Register



    Are you interested in gaining board experience, making great professional connections, and supporting NOVAA's work in the community? Join the Board! 

    NOVAA is an all-volunteer team providing resources for leaders in volunteer management through trainings, workshops, and networking events for a membership of 200+, and we are looking for new board members to join us for 2023-2024 fiscal year!

    As a member of the board, you can gain valuable professional experience, and work with an awesome team in a collaborative environment to help support our members through planning and administering workshops and other professional development and networking events, and more! 

    Want to learn more about the NOVAA board? Join us for this virtual info session to hear from current board members to learn about open positions, board service, and ask questions. View position descriptions here.


    • May 10, 2023
    • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • TBD in Portland Metro Area
    • 25
    Register


    Engage to Change is a team which provides anti-racism training for people and organizations.  They believe that addressing individual, organizational and systemic effects of racism must always be done in relationship and community.  Accountability, intersectional understanding, and action are key core components of how we structure our work. 


    RAKEEM WASHINGTON (he/him/his) Co-Founder and Facilitator
    Rakeem Washington is a Portland native and believes in the power and importance of connecting with community. Prior to the beginning of his professional career, he spent hours as a volunteer, mentor, and coach for families and various community based organizations. Rakeem continued his passion for working with children and families after graduating from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2008 when he began work as a staff attorney for the Juvenile Rights Project, a public defense law firm representing children and parents in child welfare, school discipline, and juvenile delinquency cases. After witnessing, first hand, the racial disparities that exist in the intersection of the foster care, educational, and criminal justice systems, Rakeem shifted focus to more targeted equity work. He has continued that work in various forms while working with Portland Public Schools, the Oregon Judicial Department, and the Portland Observer Newspaper. Rakeem also has taught in Portland State University’s University Studies Department teaching a class called Race, Class, Gender and Social Justice. His students work year-long to create action projects that work against poverty, houselessness, mass incarceration, economic immobility, educational deficiencies, diminishing mental health services and all of the comorbid permutations disparately facing BIPOC folks. Throughout his professional career, Rakeem has advocated for those with marginalized identities, and continues to do so through his work at Engage to Change. He learned early that true anti-racism/anti-oppression work requires building coalitions by creating authentic relationships. He teaches students, college faculty, fellow attorneys, business leaders and government employees in well-versed and established equity principles. He has led conversations and trainings at the Governor’s Summit on Minority Over-Representation in the Juvenile Justice System, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education and the National Conference of Association of Community College Trustees.

    KASIA RUTLEDGE (she/her/hers) Co-Founder and Facilitator
    Kasia Rutledge is an anti-racism and anti-oppression trainer as well as a capital defense attorney. For over 18 years, she has developed workshops and trained organizations, individuals, academic institutions, currently and formerly incarcerated people, and not-for-profits in equity, anti-racism, and holistic justice-based programming. As an attorney, Kasia has been privileged to represent poor people accused of major felonies. Kasia is also an adjunct professor at Portland State teaching a course on race, oppression, and activism. There she works with Black, Brown, Indigenous, API, Immigrant, houseless, and justice-affected youth on dismantling concepts of banking education, and on understanding the intersectionality of oppressions, helping them gain agency and joy in pursuit of their educational and career goals. Understanding that anti-racism work must center self-care, Kasia loves to make complicated meals and camp. Kasia has spent her career working in all kinds of fields related to equity, access, and difficult conversations. Whether as an anti-racism trainer, a public defender who helps folks navigate complicated and impossible life-altering situations, as a counselor at Planned Parenthood, who sat with folks making difficult decisions about potentially ending a pregnancy or as Executive Director of a not-for-profit housing organization in rural Kansas which struggled to adapt to the racist dynamics in a farming community, Kasia has spent her life understanding intersectional needs and celebrating the resilience of folks on the margins. Specifically, as a trainer, Kasia works to de-center whiteness, find where racism lives in each of our bodies, and compassionately hold white folks accountable to the work while centering the voices of folks on the margins. As a white, Queer, cis-woman, Kasia uses humility and her own stories of causing harm to people of color to make the work of undoing racism accessible for other white folks.


    • May 24, 2023
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • Tualatin Library Conference Room 18878 SW Martinazzi Ave, Tualatin, OR 97062
    Register

    Join our own Board Member and  DEI Chair Margaret Gunther as she leads a discussion around: 

    The Three C’s of Volunteer Service: Comfort, Connection and Convenience. Are We Missing the Point?

    By attending to our volunteer’s comfort, are we ignoring the discomfort of those we serve? Are we “softening the hard edge of issues like poverty and hunger and educational gaps so volunteers can leave feeling good about their work?”

    (Using Tension Well: From Comfort to Hospitality)  A discussion around who gets to volunteer, and who is really served.

    Space is limited, sign up today!


Past events

March 23, 2023 Virtual Learning Community: Engaging Older Adults as Volunteers
March 14, 2023 Morning Networking Meetup
February 16, 2023 Cultivating a Volunteer Community: Fostering authentic relationships with community members
February 13, 2023 "VOLentines" Day Happy Hour
January 24, 2023 In Person Learning Community: Labor Law Differences between Volunteers, Interns, and Employees
January 18, 2023 Volunteer Management 101 Training
January 11, 2023 Morning Networking Meetup
December 19, 2022 Networking Lunch Hour
December 14, 2022 Charting Your Path Forward: Using Lessons from Volunteer Engagement
November 16, 2022 Networking Happy Hour
October 25, 2022 Coffee with Volunteer Leaders
October 20, 2022 Virtual Learning Community: Resources available to you to help you succeed as a volunteer administrator
September 16, 2022 Corporate Volunteer Partnerships: Building relationships for events and ongoing opportunities
June 23, 2022 Annual Meeting & Celebration
May 17, 2022 Learning Community: Coordinating Volunteers while working within a Union
May 09, 2022 Lunchtime Social Hour
April 26, 2022 Info Session: Learn about joining the NOVAA Board
April 11, 2022 Info Session: Learn about joining the NOVAA Board
April 07, 2022 De-Escalation Practices: Responding with Empathy, Verbally & Non-Verbally
March 30, 2022 Info Session: Learn about joining the NOVAA Board
March 17, 2022 Info Session: Learn about joining the NOVAA Board
March 15, 2022 Networking Happy Hour
March 09, 2022 Learning Community: Reflective Conversation around issues of Equity and Inclusion
February 28, 2022 Volunteer Management 101 Training
February 15, 2022 "VOLentines" Day Social Hour
February 10, 2022 Thank You and You and You: Motivation and Appreciation for All
January 25, 2022 Learning Community: De-Escalating Conflict
January 12, 2022 Lunchtime Social Hour
December 07, 2021 Resilience: A Vital Ingredient In Your DEAI Strategy
December 02, 2021 Morning Social Hour
November 17, 2021 Social Happy Hour
October 28, 2021 Learning Community: Training Volunteers in Customer Service
October 12, 2021 Lunchtime Social Hour
September 08, 2021 8 Strategies for Creating a More Inclusive Volunteer Program and Crafting Inclusive Volunteer Recruitment Messages
June 10, 2021 NOVAA Year-End Celebration & Annual Member Meeting
April 12, 2021 Volunteer Management 201 (Remote Training)
April 06, 2021 Learning Community: Keeping Volunteers Engaged During and After COVID-19
March 30, 2021 Workshop: Creative Expression for Compassion Fatigue
March 24, 2021 Lunchtime Social Hour
February 25, 2021 Happy Hour
February 22, 2021 Volunteer Management 101 (Remote Training)
February 18, 2021 Learning Community: Tips for Job Hunters: Resume Building and Interviewing
February 04, 2021 Lunch Social - Equity Workshop Peer Discussion
January 28, 2021 Creating a More Diverse & Inclusive Environment Through the Mechanisms That Engage Volunteers
December 17, 2020 Lunchtime Social Hour
December 09, 2020 Learning Community: Volunteer Databases
November 17, 2020 Happy Hour
November 10, 2020 Developing Virtual Training for Volunteers: Tools and Best Practices
October 29, 2020 Morning Meet Up
October 13, 2020 Learning Community: Staff and Volunteer Relations
September 29, 2020 Lunchtime Social Hour
September 29, 2020 Starting Fresh with Staff and Volunteer Relations
August 24, 2020 Volunteer Management 201 (Remote Training)
July 27, 2020 Volunteer Management 101 (Remote Training)
June 25, 2020 NOVAA Year-End Celebration & Annual Member Meeting
June 18, 2020 Community Discussion: Volunteer Reintegration Planning – Bringing Back Onsite Volunteers
June 10, 2020 Virtual Morning Meetup for Volunteer Leaders
May 20, 2020 Virtual Happy Hour for Volunteer Leaders
May 18, 2020 Volunteer Management 101 (Remote Training)
May 07, 2020 Community Discussion: Volunteer Management in the time of COVID-19
April 23, 2020 Virtual Morning Meetup for Volunteer Leaders
April 15, 2020 Join the NOVAA Board! (Virtual Info Session)
April 09, 2020 Virtual Happy Hour: Support during COVID-19
April 01, 2020 Nonviolent Communication for Maximum Effectiveness and Connection
March 03, 2020 Morning Meet Up for Leaders of Volunteers
February 19, 2020 Creating Affirming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Individuals with Seth Johnstone
February 04, 2020 Volunteer Management 201
January 09, 2020 Happy Hour for Volunteer Leaders
December 05, 2019 Learning Community: Creating Inclusive Spaces for Trans and Gender Nonconforming Volunteers
November 13, 2019 Morning Meet Up for Leaders of Volunteers
November 07, 2019 Getting to What Matters -- How To Meaningfully Measure Program Impact with Steve Patty
October 29, 2019 Volunteer Management 101
October 15, 2019 Happy Hour for Volunteer Leaders
October 10, 2019 Learning Community: CVA Certification: Process and Tips for Preparing for your CVA Exam
September 18, 2019 Long Distance Management of Volunteers with Rick Lynch
September 18, 2019 2019/20 NOVAA Workshop Package: Four workshops for the price of three!
September 06, 2019 Happy Hour for Volunteer Leaders
July 10, 2019 Happy Hour for Leaders of Volunteers: Connect with Local College/University Engagement Staff
June 06, 2019 NOVAA Year-End Celebration & Annual Member Meeting
May 21, 2019 Training: Volunteer Management 101
May 15, 2019 Morning Meet Up for Leaders of Volunteers
May 02, 2019 Learning Community: Volunteering While Transgender
April 25, 2019 Workshop: Mission-Essential Skills for the 21st Century Leader of Volunteers with Barry Altland
April 16, 2019 Happy Hour for Volunteer Leaders
April 04, 2019 Hors d'oeuvres & Info: Learn about Joining the NOVAA Board or a Committee for the 2019-20 Year
March 22, 2019 Learning Community: Seen & Heard - Getting a Seat at the Executive Table
March 19, 2019 Training: Volunteer Management 301 with Jim Laden (*Note: This training is not included in the workshop package.)
March 14, 2019 Morning Meet Up for Volunteer Leaders
February 19, 2019 Workshop: Building Stronger Staff-Volunteer Relationships with Erin Barnhart
February 12, 2019 Happy Hour for Leaders of Volunteers
January 31, 2019 Training: Volunteer Management 201
January 16, 2019 Morning Meet Up for Leaders of Volunteers
December 06, 2018 Learning Community: Removing Barriers By Thinking Outside the Box
November 13, 2018 Workshop: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Phu Dao
November 12, 2018 2018-19 NOVAA Workshop Package II: 20% off of three workshops!
October 29, 2018 Training: Volunteer Management 101
October 16, 2018 Morning Meet-Up for Volunteer Leaders
October 04, 2018 Learning Community: Delegation: Empowering Volunteers and Creating Team Leaders
September 18, 2018 Happy Hour for Volunteer Managers
September 12, 2018 Workshop: Carve Your Own Path with Dana Litwin, CVA
September 12, 2018 2018-19 NOVAA Workshop Package: 25% off all four workshops!
June 14, 2018 NOVAA Year-End Celebration & Annual Meeting
June 04, 2018 Training: Volunteer Management 101
May 21, 2018 Workshop: Educating for Change: How You Can Partner with Higher Education (with Stephanie Stokamer)
May 15, 2018 Morning Meet Up For Volunteer Managers
April 25, 2018 Happy Hour For Volunteer Managers
April 05, 2018 Info Session: Get Involved with NOVAA! Learn about Joining the Board or a Committee for the 2018-19 Year
March 15, 2018 Workshop: Volunteer Management 301 with Jim Laden
March 08, 2018 Morning Meet Up For Volunteer Managers
February 27, 2018 Learning Community: ADA & Inclusion
February 06, 2018 Happy Hour For Volunteer Managers
January 29, 2018 Training: Volunteer Management 201
January 19, 2018 Morning Meet Up for Volunteer Managers
December 05, 2017 Learning Community: Embracing Volunteer Turnover
November 16, 2017 Happy Hour For Volunteer Managers
November 13, 2017 Learning Community: Online Volunteer Orientation & Training
November 09, 2017 Training: Volunteer Management 101
October 24, 2017 Morning Meet Up for Volunteer Managers
October 18, 2017 Workshop: Develop Your Leadership, Team-Building, & Coaching Skills w/ Daryl Dixon
October 18, 2017 2017/18 NOVAA Workshop Package II: Buy Two, Get the Third 50% Off
September 26, 2017 Happy Hour For Volunteer Managers
September 08, 2017 Workshop: Conflict Management, Leadership, and Mindfulness with Nancy Alder
September 08, 2017 2017/18 NOVAA Workshop Package: Four workshops for the price of three!
June 13, 2017 Learning Community: Volunteer Recognition Deconstructed
June 06, 2017 NOVAA Year-End Celebration & Annual Meeting
May 23, 2017 Workshop: Volunteer Motivation and the Enneagram
May 18, 2017 Happy Hour for Volunteer Managers
May 01, 2017 Training: Volunteer Management 101
April 27, 2017 Morning Meetup for Volunteer Managers
February 28, 2017 Morning Meet-up for Volunteer Managers
February 24, 2017 Workshop: Cultivating Your Volunteer Base Through Servant Leadership
October 18, 2016 Morning Meetup for Volunteer Managers
August 23, 2016 Morning Meetup for Volunteer Managers
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