General Questions - Organization

What do you find most beneficial about being a member with CAVR?

What could or should be added to membership with CAVR?

Have you recommended membership to any colleagues? Please comment.

Do you belong to any other professional associations for administrators of volunteer resources?

Conference Questions

Recommendations for future CAVR conferences - ie; speakers, location, time of year, topics.

CAVR Website Questions

Do you currently use the CAVR Website? If so, what pages or resources are of most value to you?

At www.cavr.org what improvements can be made?

Would you find a "Job Posting" page to be helpful? Yes No
Please comment.

Would you prefer an "Open Forum" page for web interaction (chat room)? Yes No
Please comment.

Are the professional development links valuable to you? Yes No
Please comment.

CAVR sends out regular listserves. When you are notified, do you go to the website to read:

Exchange (newsletter)

There are 4 issues of Exchange per year. How many issues do you read?
All   2 - 3   1   0

Do you like the content of Exchange? Any comments?

Do you access the Canadian Journal of Volunteer Resource Management? If so what articles were / are of most interest to you?

Ethics And Standards Questions

Do you reference the Organizational Standards? Yes No
Please comment.

Do you find them useful in gaining support for your role? Yes No
Please comment.

Are you aware that the Standards have been incorporated into the Code for Volunteer Involvement? Yes No
Please comment.

Have you used the Code of Ethics to assist in making decisions? Yes No
Please comment.

Professional Development Questions

Would you be interested in meeting with other CAVR members for networking meetings?
Yes   No  

How many times per year would you like to meet?
1-2   3-4  

How far would you be willing to travel?
less than 100 km   100 - 150 km   150 - 250 km  

If professional development opportunities were available in your area, would you attend?
Yes   No  

Frequency per year:
1 - 2   3 - 4  

What other Professional Development would be helpful to you in your profession?

For the profession?

Any other comments re: Professional Development needs.

CAVR Certification Questions

Would more information on the Certification process be helpful? Yes   No  
Please comment.

Have you been Certified? When? Yes   No  
Please comment.

Have you Re-Certified? If no, would you tell us why? Yes   No  
Please comment.

If you have not considered certifying please tell us why?

Is there value in the Certification process:

In your current position? Yes   No  
Please comment.



For the profession? Yes   No  
Please comment.

Were you able to access information about the Certification/Re-Certification process easily? Yes   No  
Please comment.

Other questions relating to the profession

What other roles could CAVR be filling within the profession?

We are open to hearing your suggestions, or any other comments.

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