Joan Cardellino
Ms. Cardellino has extensive experience engaging
volunteers and community forces for good. From the
arena to the C-suite , she has expertise with a broad
range of management, organization, and program
development skills. She is called upon frequently to serve
as a volunteer engagement pundit, coach, trainer, speaker,
consultant, conservator, innovator, and conscience. Her
current focus is strengthening volunteer leadership management and
organization structures, from traditional top-down structures to self-
governing sociocracies, especially digital visions and strategies.
For more than 13 years Joan managed a California Hospital Association
statewide network of hospital volunteer programs reaching 100,000
volunteers. Her responsibilities included production of an annual conference
and educational events; staffing the state's Committee on Volunteer
Services; creating new products, seminars and/or publications; regular
consultations with more than 400 member hospitals; and forming and
maintaining strategic alliances, joint ventures and community partnerships
at the local/regional/state/national/international levels to advance
volunteerism in hospitals. Prior to her work in California, Joan served for 15
years as the director of volunteer resources at Abington Memorial Hospital
in Pennsylvania; director of training and staff development, director of
youth services, and regional branch administrator for the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Chapter of the American National Red Cross, and service as a
Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia.
Joan holds a BA in sociology from Northeastern University; a graduate
business certificate in health care administration and marketing from
Temple University; a graduate business certificate in leadership
development from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Anderson
Executive Education Center, and a certificate in fundraising from the
Association of Fundraising Professionals. She has a Certified Administrator
of Volunteer Services (CAVS) credential from the Association for Healthcare
Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP), and is an active leader of many
professional associations including AL!VE (Association of Leaders in
Volunteer Engagement), DOVIA Sacramento (Directors of Volunteers in
Agencies), National Volunteer Caregiving Network, and the National
Alliance for Volunteer Engagement.