COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Volunteering Projects Management The Volunteering Potential LAB project was changed like a whole world by the unexpected and dramatic COVID-19 pandemic. The second training and evaluation seminar needed to be organized online instead of offline. The original participants have changed due to regrouping of employees in partner organizations. The pandemic itself has forced organizations working with volunteers to be flexible and manage new, previously unknown risks. That led to the development of COVID-19 Secure Operational Risk Assessments, tailored to the needs and threats of the organizations. Changes happened also in the management of volunteers and volunteering projects. The participants of the Volunteering Potential Lab Evaluation Seminar mapped these changes, pointing out the negative and the positive ones. Here are the results of their work:
Some of the participants were surprised that they could identify so many positive changes:
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