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Establishing: Introduction

As you devote substantial time and resources to external coordination and volunteer relations, it is also important to maintain a viable internal organization for your Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit. Many ongoing administrative tasks will need to be completed to best serve your volunteers and response partners. A healthy, well-run organization is the foundation of every successful MRC unit.

People with prior administrative experience will be familiar with the work required to run an organization’s internal operations, particularly routine activities such as facilities management, bookkeeping, and recordkeeping. Rather than including topics that many MRC administrators might be familiar with, this publication addresses the internal organizational activities most pertinent to MRC units.

For example, information must be accurately tracked and updated as it pertains to volunteers, local contacts and partners, and specific volunteer activities. Policies must be established for volunteer utilization, monitoring the appropriate use of MRC identification cards and badges, and other issues. Ideally, these policies will be reviewed and clarified based on feedback from the field.

Similarly, ongoing strategic planning will require revisiting the priorities that currently guide your MRC’s operations and vision and your basic administrative procedures. To sustain your unit for the long term, operating funds may have to be solicited and working relationships established to access or leverage necessary public- and private-sector resources.

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Last Updated on 8/23/2006