Spring Cleaning: How to Refresh Your Volunteer Program Documents If you are like me, the return of warmer weather (at least in the northern parts of this world!) has you opening your windows wide, blasting 90’s pop hits (is that just me?!), and dusting off the cobwebs that have accumulated over the last year. [...]
Member Spotlight: How One Volunteer Manager Leveled Up With These Volunteer Management Tools To celebrate our VolunteerPro members and their accomplishments, we are starting a Member Spotlight blog series! We invite you to follow along and learn how our members are taking action and getting traction with their volunteer management strategies! This month, I had the pleasure of [...]
Communicating With Volunteers: Emails They’ll Want to Open A lot of the work that you do as a leader of volunteers is communicating with volunteers at varying levels. And much if it is done using good old-fashioned email. But how do you make sure volunteers open, read, and respond to your emails? At VolunteerPro, we [...]
As a Volunteer Manager, What Is Your Role in Nonprofit Crisis Communications? It’s highly likely that your nonprofit crisis communications plan doesn’t consider aspects affecting the volunteer program, so it’s vitally important that you consider how you will communicate with your volunteers when something goes wrong. Ahem, a global pandemic, social unrest, natural disasters, [...]
April Pro Roundup: Thoughts on Volunteerism from Leadership Thought Leaders Typically, we begin a Pro Roundup assignment with a subject that’s on top of “everyone’s mind” and research to see what volunteer leadership thought leaders have published on the subject. This month, we decided to take the reverse path. With the question “What are industry [...]
3 Critical Variables to Consider for Your Volunteer Retention Strategy In our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, we’ve been able to track trends in volunteer retention strategies, and in years past it has been noted as a challenge for volunteer managers, not often the largest issue. However, this past year we saw a major shakeup [...]
21 Last-minute Ways to Show Volunteers Appreciation for National Volunteer Week 2021 National Volunteer Week 2021 is sneaking up fast (April 18-24 in the US and Canada), and if you think you have missed out on the opportunity to recognize your volunteers this year, have no fear! There is still time to pull something together! (Note: If [...]
The Motivation to Volunteer: Lessons from the Chilean Mine Tragedy After over a year of lockdown or severely reduced volunteer activity due to the COVID-19 virus, we might be tempted to assume that the motivation to volunteer is waning rapidly. After so much societal discord, conflict, and an ever-present existential threat, we might expect that [...]
