Assisting After Disaster: A Volunteer Management and Donations Management Training

Authors

Laura H. Downey, Mississippi State University
David R. Buys, Mississippi State University
Brent Fountain, Mississippi State University
Tom Ball, Mississippi State University
Anne Howard Hilbun, Mississippi State University
Paula Threadgill, Mississippi State University

ORCID

Buys: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-056X

MSU Affiliation

Extension

Creation Date

2026-01-29

Abstract

Stakeholders in Mississippi perceived that Extension could lead volunteer management and donations management after a natural disaster. In response, Mississippi State University Extension professionals developed a training on volunteer management and donations management to supplement the existing Incident Management System/Incident Command System (ICS) curriculum. The training includes education on connecting volunteer management and donations management to local emergency planning, managing volunteers, managing goods and monetary donations, operating within ICS, and developing relationships between volunteer organizations and partners. The training has been pilot tested in Mississippi with promising preliminary results. Extension professionals elsewhere may benefit from similar trainings.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Extension

Publisher

Clemson University Press

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Downey, L. H., Buys, D., Fountain, B., Ball, T., Hilbun, A. H., & Threadgill, P. (2018). Assisting After Disaster: A Volunteer Management and Donations Management Training. The Journal of Extension, 56(3), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.56.03.10