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we started out as an outreach effort of a cluster of local churches.  most of our peers are faith-based, or aligned with a County Office on Aging.  places to start for researching:

http://www.fiavolunteers.org/

your local Area Agency on Aging

 You would be operating in rural area, so the operations listed below might be closer to what you have in mind.  i think everyone just starts out identifying the need, figuring out what volunteers are willing to do, and then doing the match between Need and Offered Service.

everyone makes up their own forms, but at minimum you need a procedure for perfoming BACKGROUND CHECK on volunteers if they are going into someone's home, LIABILITY INSURANCE in case a Care Receiver injures a volunteer, a volunteer does harm to a Care Receiver, or the volunteer has a mishap while on a volunteer assignment.  signing up people with needs is easy.  hard part is recruiting and retaining volunteers - this is a nonstop, perpetual process. 

These are some rural organizations:

http://www.heartsandhandsfia.org/

http://rric.org/

http://www.yourneighborsinc.com/

http://www.mountainprojects.org/

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