Zwerling created the designing a museum volunteer program toolkit to be aligned with core standards of both of these organizations. The result was a robust dialogue and AAM blog posts and a project that took on a life of its own. The survey was originally created as a Johns Hopkins University museum studies graduate internship project with AAM. These podcasts continue a project that began several years ago when Susan Zwerling, Museum Assessment Program Officer with the American Alliance of Museums, designed a survey to gather thoughts from the museum field about museum volunteerism and a potential toolkit to support that work. Today’s episode is the second podcast in a series of three AAMV conversations about best practices and concerns related to designing a museum volunteer program. Skip over related stories to continue reading articleĭo Volunteer Programs Need Reinventing for the Reopened Museum? Welcome to Volunteer Voices, a podcast about volunteerism in the museum field, produced by the American Association for Museum Volunteers. In her second appearance on the American Association of Museum Volunteers podcast Volunteer Voices, the toolkit’s author Susan Zwerling spoke with Kia Hunter about diverse, equitable volunteer programs: What barriers do existing programs present to inclusivity and accessibility, and how can we dismantle them? Listen to the episode or read the transcript below to find out. Since the release of Designing a Museum Volunteer Program, many museums have found themselves in the latter category, as they both cope with the effects of the pandemic and act on the commitments they made during the peak of the Black Lives Matter protests. Last year, AAM released a popular toolkit on structuring, developing, and supporting volunteer programs-whether starting from scratch or reimagining an existing program.
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