How to Conquer Recruiting Volunteers Using Personas When you think about recruiting volunteers, you need to imagine your ideal volunteer. What kind of work are they doing in your organization? How do they interact with you, your co-workers, other volunteers, your clients? What skills do they have? What values? How do they communicate? Just pause [...]
How to Build Better Nonprofit Partnerships If the thought of building nonprofit partnerships in your community leaves you in a cold sweat, you’re not alone. For some of us, the idea of cold calling complete strangers -- however beneficial they may be to our efforts -- ties our stomachs in knots. I’m one of those [...]
October Pro Roundup: The Best Volunteer Management Software to Meet Every Need The best volunteer management software systems are vital tools that help nonprofits track volunteer impact and help you save time. When combined with other platforms, the right tool can help nonprofits perform at its highest level by aggregating data points so that you [...]
Key Insights from 5 Years of Volunteer Management Research In January 2016, we launched our first global "state of the volunteer industry" report. Now the longest running volunteer management research p[project on the planet. Our chief aim was to gather and share information related to the infrastructure, practices, challenges, and needs of leaders of volunteers around [...]
Member Spotlight: How One Member Rebuilt Her Nonprofit Volunteer Program with No Previous Experience 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 a nonprofit volunteer program. Follow along and learn how [...]
What Every Volunteer Manager Needs to Know: A Lesson in Leadership As a volunteer manager, you are often stuck in middle management and all of the challenges that entail. Not always the best place to be. But let’s close our eyes for a moment for a little thought experiment (OK technically, you need your eyes open to [...]
September Pro Roundup: Research That Shows COVID-19 Impacts on Nonprofits and the People That Support Them wondering how COVID-19 impacts on nonprofits and how they provide services to the communities they serve? However, do you know how deep those changes run and how they will continue to impact how we live, work, and play? [...]
Member Spotlight: How Building Structure Made Time for a Volunteer Strategy Welcome to another installment of our Member Spotlight series, where we are proud to feature the real-life challenges and victories of volunteer leadership professionals who are taking action and gaining traction in their volunteer strategy. Recently, Valerie had the opportunity to sit down with [...]
