Member Spotlight: How Cultivating the Right Volunteer Leadership Skills Can Scale Your Volunteer Program’s Impact 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 and learn how our members [...]
How to Overcome Nonprofit Savior Complex and Emerge Victorious Is a nonprofit savior complex eroding your ability to get things done? Contrary to what you might read about or see in the Marvel Universe, superheroes are not real. But I would venture to say that we have a real-life equivalent in the form of volunteer managers! Unfortunately, [...]
How Smart Tech Can Improve Your Outreach to Volunteer Candidates Outreach to volunteer candidates may seem to be getting harder than ever. But with a few new tactics, and a tech-forward approach, you can begin to attract a whole new audience of enthusiastic supporters. Advances in technology have always incited shifts of culture. Those same advances [...]
How Your Mindset Impacts Your Volunteer Leadership Work Your mindset is THE most important skill you can master in volunteer leadership work. Not completely sold? Stay with me for a minute! Consider how you approach planning your volunteer program strategy. Do you see a chain-link fence, or a wide-open field, full of possibilities? [...]
3 Volunteer Recruitment Strategies That Will Attract Your Ideal Volunteers Volunteer recruitment strategies are a dime a dozen. But which ones really work to bring in the volunteer you really need? And is there a magic wand that can make it all happen? No doubt you’ve heard the phrase “If you build it, they will come”, a [...]
Member Spotlight: How one Member Uses Their Own Volunteer Experience to Create a Better 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 and learn how our members [...]
June Pro Roundup: Beach Reads That Will Enhance Your Volunteer Management Practices & Leadership Chops Who knew your summer reading could also strengthen your leadership skills and boost your volunteer management practices? No, not with boring texts, with inspired reads that can help us all become a better version of ourselves. In my part [...]
Gain Traction with an Irresistible 3-Step Communication Strategy Recently, Tobi and I took part in a three-day intensive communications strategy coaching program (coaches need coaches!). While the motivation to attend was to strengthen our organization's overall communication strategy, the real golden nuggets of value turned out to be takeaways that are applicable for the work [...]
