Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA)
Human Resources ServicesNorth Carolina, United States11-50 Employees
Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) is a nonprofit-focused evaluation service that captures volunteers' perspectives through a comprehensive attitudes and engagement survey. Developed in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and The Humane Society of the United States, VPA aims to support nonprofit organizational effectiveness by focusing on the volunteer component of programs; the service is offered at no cost to scholarship recipients. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, VPA operates within the human resources services sector and is maintained by graduate students and faculty from UNC Charlotte’s Organizational Science doctoral program and partner institutions. The organization positions itself as a means to understand volunteer experiences from the volunteers’ viewpoint, rather than as a full assessment of an entire volunteer program, and invites interested organizations to apply via its website for access to its services.