The Volunteer Life Cycle (VLC) is a relationship-marketing tool that describes the people and processes required to create a compelling engagement for volunteers. The cycle starts with planning and ends with the end-of-assignment/recognition stage. At each stage of the VLC, there are specific steps that need to be considered by all stakeholders to produce an optimal volunteer experience.
PEMAC uses the VLC to ensure that all stakeholders understand what happens at each stage and who-does-what. In the following sections of the Volunteer Handbook, these understandings, tasks and steps are clarified and detailed based on the feedback from PEMAC volunteers and staff themselves.
The stages of the VLC are:
1. Planning
2. Recruitment
3. Screening and Selection, and,
6. Recognition