Recruitment Messaging: Crafting Your Most Successful Call for Volunteers Yet! Compelling messaging is essential when your organization is ready to call for volunteers. You want to attract the right people, who are excited about working in support of your program or good cause. Often, the candidates you’re wanting to recruit are busy people, which makes [...]
7+ Ways to Improve the "Curb Appeal" of Your Volunteer Recruitment Page Your volunteer recruitment page is one of the most important pages on your organization’s website. It is the page where you’re sending all potential volunteer candidates via your blog, emails, newsletters, and social media posts. You want it to be a virtual welcome mat, rolled [...]
Write a Volunteer Position Description that Boosts Recruitment Your agency’s volunteer position descriptions are important tools for communications, accountability, and recruitment. Not only do they attract the right people to your organization, but once they are there a well-written volunteer position description can map out responsibilities, expectations, and boundaries. Here’s the thing, though. The typical volunteer [...]
March Pro Roundup - How to Create Thumb-stopping Social Media for Volunteer Recruitment Campaigns Of the methods available to draw supporters and volunteers to your cause, perhaps the most easily overlooked is to use social media for volunteer recruitment campaigns. When your zone of genius is focused on volunteer leadership, venturing into social media can [...]
Virtual Volunteerism: Innovative Ideas to Increase Engagement in Your Nonprofit It’s been almost a year since the pandemic forced shutdowns to keep our communities safe and healthy, yet virtual volunteerism is still a hot topic in the volunteer engagement field. There are a few reasons for that: Leaders of volunteers KNOW that their mission still needs support, but are [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: Digital Marketing for Nonprofit Success No doubt, you’ve felt the line blurring between your job and that of digital marketing for nonprofit organizations. It’s really become part of anyone’s job who communicates regularly with others. Through advancements in digital technology, marketers are better able to identify, target and communicate with prospects. In turn, [...]
Why You Should Celebrate Black History Month with Your Volunteers As leaders in the volunteer engagement field, the team at VolunteerPro is committed to being champions for more inclusive volunteerism. In this blog post, we aim to inspire volunteer leaders to look at their own organization and see if their volunteers represent the community they serve AND give ideas [...]
Nonprofit Leadership: How to Embrace Failure for Success It’s funny. In the private sector, it is common to hear about failure, but we don’t hear much about it in nonprofit leadership circles. The world is filled with stories about scrappy entrepreneurs who toiled, even went bankrupt multiple times, before they finally hit it big. In fact, [...]
