This document was written as a functional guide for those responsible for coordinating volunteers in education and provides the background information needed for setting up, running, and evaluating a volunteer program. Ten chapters cover the procedures for recruitment and promotion, interviewing and placement, orientation, and training of volunteers in the various capacities for which they are needed in the schools; answer questions concerning the identity and role of coordinators; specify the qualifications and public relations skills requisite to the position of coordinator; and provide specifications against which the volunteer program can be measured on a continuing basis. Because it falls outside the responsibility of the volunteer coordinator, the funding aspect of a volunteer program is bypassed. An extensive 10-page bibliography is included. (Author/DN)