The Complete Guide to Volunteer Management Competencies for Today's Leaders At the end of the year, it's a natural time to assess your own nonprofit leadership skills and whether they meet today's core volunteer management competencies. Are you equipped and ready to meet the challenges of the year ahead? Where are your strengths? What are [...]
101 Quotes for Volunteers: Inspire Your Team to Reach for the Stars Looking for quotes for volunteers? You've come to the right place! We’ve curated some for the best quotes around to inspire current and future volunteers at your charity, cause, association, membership, agency, department, or movement. Inspirational quotes can be used almost everywhere to [...]
December Pro RoundUp: Our Favorite DEI Resources for Nonprofits Are you interested in promoting more inclusive volunteering, we're sharing our top DEI resources for nonprofits to help you get off on the right foot. Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is top of mind for many volunteer organizations. And rightly so. Our industry research shows that volunteer managers, as [...]
How One Member Improved Her Volunteer Manager Productivity Through Focused Changes & Smarter Strategy This month, we’re spotlighting another member on her journey to growth and excellence through better volunteer manager productivity. Susan Nussall, with the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education, has been able to engage 1,200 to 1,400 episodic volunteers a [...]
Our Top 5 Time-Saving Tips for Volunteer Managers – How to Do More with Less We are often asked about time saving tips for volunteer managers, and it’s no surprise. The job of a leader of volunteers is multi-faceted and challenging. Leaders of volunteers are responsible for program design, evaluation, recruitment and marketing, supervision and communications, training [...]
Leading with Your Heart: Your Volunteer Leadership Role Your volunteer leadership role may feel less certain than before. And, it's no surprise. When we experience massive change, particularly when it’s unwelcome or unexpected, it may feel like the best thing to do is crawl under a rock and wait for the storm to pass. But [...]
November Pro Roundup: Resources to Improve Your Volunteer Program Design When it comes to making tough decisions about your volunteer program design, it helps to know what other organizations are doing. It also helps to set concrete indicators that will help you assess if your management interventions made a difference. In this roundup, we [...]
Member Spotlight: How One Member Empowered Herself to Learn and Grow Alongside Her Volunteer Program Welcome back to another member spotlight, where we feature some of the ups and the downs and everything in between of what it’s really like to work as a leader of volunteers. Follow along to learn how empowered volunteer leadership [...]
