Obama campaign 'example of how to manage volunteers'

By Emily Twinch, Third Sector Online, 7 November 2008

Charities need to rethink how they use volunteers in the wake of Barack Obama's election as US President, according to Dame Elisabeth Hoodless.

The executive director of UK volunteering charity CSV said Obama's campaign was a good example of how volunteers should be managed. She said lessons should be learned from the "critical role of volunteers in the successful Obama campaign". "If volunteers can make a difference to a presidential campaign, hasn't the...