How to Promote Volunteer Inclusion Many volunteer professionals have a lack of experience working with and including diverse communities. And that really limits their scope of what is possible and also the pool of volunteers that they can attract. Some managers may be concerned that they will not have the wherewithal nor the capacity to [...]
Pro Roundup: Gratitude & Happiness Gratefulness. Thanks. Appreciation. Recognition. Acknowledgement. There are many ways to think about and express gratitude. And it often seems hard to escape the countless platitudes, social media posts, and blog articles on the subject. In fact, it seems trite to even be talking to you about it today. However, chances [...]
Your Ultimate Guide to the Training of Volunteers As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, you may be rethinking your plans for the training of volunteers. If you’re frustrated, discouraged, or feeling stalled, I want to reassure you that now may actually be the perfect time to design and build some impactful volunteer training so that [...]
How to Prevent Burnout - For Yourself and Your Volunteers If you’re like most volunteer program administrators, you “wear many hats.” The constant need to multi-task is a critical issue that needs a solution to prevent eventual burnout. But, given the current economic climate and budget shortfalls, it’s not likely that help is on the [...]
Pro Roundup: Inspire Volunteer Involvement with 9 MUST Watch TED Talks A large part of your role as a leader is to inspire volunteer involvement; that is, to motivate individuals to use their time and talent to help achieve collective action. But what do you do when you are not exactly feeling inspired yourself? It [...]
Walk the Talk: Bring Volunteers into Volunteer Services As a volunteer leader in your organization, you may be a department of just one. You may not even be able to call yourself a department. You may be working alone and be the sole person responsible for engaging volunteers. As a result, you may be [...]
Developing and Engaging a Volunteer Community Online Throughout the course of this pandemic, we have been getting a lot of questions in the VolunteerPro Membership Community on the topic of making a plan for developing and engaging your volunteer community online. Before 2020, engaging with anyone in-person was compulsory. You pass people in the [...]
How to Talk About Race & Volunteerism: Advice for Allies Over the past five years of Volunteer Management Progress Report surveys, we’ve cataloged an ever-present reality of the field of volunteer management – that our pool of professionals (at least here in the United States) is comprised primarily of White, educated women. This often prompts me [...]
