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Creating Volunteers for LifeA look at empowering volunteers while increasing urban and community forestry capacity.
2015 Partner’s ConferenceAndi Dierich
Presentation Outline Social Infrastructure as a component of capacity Empowering volunteers Measuring behavior Minnesota's Community Engagement and Preparedness Program Tips to strengthen volunteer programs.
Capacity = PowerChaskin, 2001
• sense of community• level of commitment among
community members• mechanisms of problem solving • access to resources
Capacity: power “the facility or power to produce, perform, or deploy”. McGuire et al. (1994)
• Citizen Participation• Community Structure• Development Instruments
Kusel, 1996• physical capital• human capital• social capital
What creates a successful U&CF program?
Importance of VolunteersPartnerships/Volunteers
Education
Staffing
Funding
Why Volunteer?
Improving one's neighborhood was the most important reason for volunteering - J. of Arb., Still & Gerhold, 1997
Function Conceptual DefinitionValues The individual volunteers in order to express or act upon
important values that are important to them like humanitarianism
Understanding
The volunteer is seeking to learn more about the world or exercise skills that are often unused
Enhancement The volunteer can grow and develop psychologically through volunteer activities
Career The volunteer has the goal of gaining career-related experience through volunteering
Social Volunteering allows an individual to strengthen his or her social relationships
Protective The individual uses volunteering to reduce negative feelings such as guilt or to address personal problems
Volunteer Functions Inventory (Cities and the Enviro., Moskell et. al., 2010)
Additional Results 93.3% of respondents had behavioral intentions of participating in a similar tree-planting activity in the future
80% of respondents were affiliated with an organization rather than participating as a solitary individual.
Empowerment!
8 Rungs on the ladder of citizen participation.
J of Am. Institute of Planners, Arnstein, 1969
Tree Planting – Rochester, MN (1000 Trees Planting Day)
Volunteers… a Neglected Resource?Tree plantingEnvironmental/natural resource committeesClerical/office work
Inventory Tree maintenance
Measuring your assessment
Diagram of the theory of planned behavior. The psychology of attitudes. Eagly & Chasiken, 1993.
The screams are heard from miles...
Grant Cycle OneCrookstonHendricksHibbingHutchinsonMorrisRochester
Grant Cycle TwoBemidjiMoraRoyaltonStarbuck
MethodologySocial Infrastructure Grant cycle two communities received a
pre-training survey
Grant cycle one communities received a post- inventory completion survey
U&CF Capacity Survey Treatment communities were those that participated in grant cycle one (six communities)
Eight control communities
Volunteer Attitudes and Behaviors
Volunteer Surveys
Question Y2-pre Y1-post
t value
p.value
p.adjust
EAB Knowledge 3.220 2.022 -5.420 5.95E-08
<1e-04
Understanding Forester Role
2.224 1.301 -4.806 1.54E-06
<1e-04
Government Involvement
2.460 1.591 -5.435 5.48E-08
<1e-04
Valuing City Forestry 1.674 1.289 -3.026 0.002474
0.0322
Engaged in Sustaining
Community Forestry
2.064 1.667 -2.317 0.02052
0.2462
Strongly disagree
Moderately disagree
Moderately agree
Strongly agree
0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00%
Empowering Decision Making
As a result of participating in the EAB RR inventory, I feel more involved in making management decisions about tree care within my community.
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Community Preparedness Project (2009-2011)
•Rochester•Hibbing•Hutchinson•Crookston•Morris•Hendricks
Very Important
Important
Neither Important nor Unimportant
Unimportant
Very Unimportant
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0%
Rate the importance of community groups to the management of public trees within your community.
Non-Project Project
Community Capacity and Sustainability
Fuding is inadequate
Funding is less than adequate
Funding is adequate
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Do you believe the level of funding received in 2011 meets your Urban and Community Forestry needs?
Future Intentions
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
Project Communities
Definitely yes Possibly Unsure Unlikely Absolutely not
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
Non-project Communities
Definitely yes Possibly Unsure Unlikely Absolutely not
Openlands – Chicago TreeKeepers 2016 will be the 25th anniversary of the TreeKeeper program Over 1,670 people of gone through the TreeKeepers training Average of 24 planting events per year 12 tree care days per year 10 pruning events per year 30-40 core TreeKeepers
Citizen ScienceExperimental plots for urban forestry restoration.
Strategies
Learn more at MNtreesource.com
Andi DierichEnvironmental Coordinator
DuPage County, [email protected]
Thank you to: Gary Johnson, University of Minnesota Mark Duntemann, Natural Path Forestry Joan Blaustein, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Daniella Pereira, Openlands