Have you wondered ... how a volunteer organization functions?(Photographic Society of America)

From: PSA Journal | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Timmermeister, Jean | Copyright information

The Photographic Society of America (PSA) is typical of organizations throughout this country except possibly that PSA has many international members as well as domestic. How best for PSA to function efficiently when it has just a couple of employees and everyone else is a volunteer, is perhaps the most difficult aspect for management.

It has been said that volunteers are the heartbeat of an organization and PSA is no different than any other similar organization. Withou...

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