Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: Images of Volunteerism Are you on the hunt for perfect images of volunteerism for your organization’s marketing materials, social media campaigns, or website, but not sure where to start? I’ve been there before! When I inherited the volunteer program in my last position, one of my first tasks was to work with our marketing team [...]
Managing Volunteers: A Little History and Wisdom from over 10 Years of Helping Helpers Managing volunteers is much more complicated than it looks, isn’t it? Last Saturday, I was doing a Facebook Live with some of my fellow Master Gardener volunteers. We go live and chat about all things gardening (usually veggies) for about an [...]
Providing Exceptional Experiences for One-Time, Short-term, and Event Volunteers + Email Scripts If fundraising is part of your job description, then short-term event volunteers are likely part of your life. But there are so many other ways event volunteers can help your cause, by giving their time in small amounts. Local student service clubs, employee [...]
Volunteer Fundraising and Friendraising Online: Tips for Uncertain Times In an uncertain economy, nonprofits need to do everything they can to ensure their sustainability, including volunteer fundraising initiatives. Certainly, boards of directors and regular fundraising event volunteers are already engaged in raising needed revenue for your cause. But, what about other volunteers? Given recent shifts in volunteer [...]
Training Volunteers Online: How Your Nonprofit Can Keep Your Supporters Up to Speed In the past, training volunteers took place mostly in person, through in-person workshops and intensive bootcamps. But, with COVID-19 disease transmission rates still on the rise, nonprofits are seeking new ways to engage and upskill volunteers that can also keep them safe. [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: How to Build Resilience in Challenging Times To say that 2020 has been a challenging year would be the understatement of the century. The past six months have been fraught with difficulties, challenges, and issues, ranging from anxiety due to the pandemic, stress due to juggling multiple priorities, concern about [...]
3 Models to Engage Communities in Change The urge to engage communities in social change efforts is not a new concept. In fact, one might argue that community connection has been active here in the US for decades, even back to the founding of our country. Government agencies and political parties have understood the need to [...]
Building Better COVID-Related Volunteer Roles In the VolunteerPro membership community, like others around the world, leaders of volunteers are getting creative about how they design COVID-related volunteer roles. Whether volunteers are working on-site or remotely, there is still plenty to do to move missions forward. And, with no end in sight for the pandemic, and even surges [...]
