CharityVillage eLearning

Donna Lockhart, Partner with The RETHINK Group, helps organizations attract, support, and expand their volunteer resources. Using her diverse experience to partner with non-profit organizations, she creates volunteer engagement strategies; strategic plans; policy; staff training and resources. Donna’s career started in recreation planning which laid the groundwork for future development of resources for volunteers and youth. She has published numerous resources including The Youth Volunteer Audit, a tool to increase effectiveness and success when engaging youth.

Donna has held many leadership positions with non-profits that enriched her perspective. These include: Community Development and Youth worker with the City of North York; Director of Volunteer Leadership Development for the United Way of Peterborough and District; Executive Director of Junior Achievement, Kawartha Lakes Region; Director of Staff Development and Activation for Marycrest Home for the Aged; and, Executive Director of PAVR-O (Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources Ontario).

Donna created one of Charity Village’s first eLearning courses called Building a Great Volunteer Program. This led her to design and teach the online Certificate in Volunteer Management course for Sir Sandford Fleming College (hosted by OntarioLearns), a certificate aimed at building competency for Managers of Volunteers and raising professionalism. As an Advisory Member with the HR Council of Canada and the Canadian Administrators of Volunteers, she helped to develop the first Occupational Standards for the role of Coordinator/Administrator of Volunteers and integrate these into the certificate curriculum.

Donna completed a master’s degree in Community Development & Recreation Planning from York University and is a Certified Volunteer Resource Manager.

For more information about The RETHINK Group, contact Donna at: www.rethinkgroup.ca