The Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA, pronounced vee-pah) is a cutting-edge and innovative volunteer assessment system. Thanks to generous funding and support from our partners, VPA services are completely free for scholarship recipients. The survey is designed to promote nonprofit organizational effectiveness using validated attitude and engagement items that highlight the perspective of volunteers. While the VPA is not a comprehensive assessment of your entire volunteer program, it captures the voices of a key stakeholder group within your organization – your volunteers.
VPA is maintained by graduate students and faculty in the Organizational Science doctoral program at UNC Charlotte as well as our partner universities. While much of our consulting work is with animal shelters, we work with all kinds of nonprofit organizations including police, health & human services, and arts & sciences.
If you are interested in implementing the VPA at your volunteer organization, please submit an application by clicking the “Apply Now” tab. If you have questions before you apply, please email us at volprogram@charlotte.edu. Please note that we respond to each incoming inquiry as quickly as possible, but there may be some wait time as our consultants are consistently working with clients.