Software for Volunteer Management: What We Want Now A few times a month, I get asked: “What’s the best software for volunteer management?” My most common response is “It depends on your organization’s goals and needs for data management.” And, then I refer folks to Chapter 6 of our free Essential Guide to Managing Volunteers at Your [...]
How to Have Fun at Dinner Parties and Why CVA Certification Matters By Guest Author: Faiza Venzant CVA, CVRM, General Manager, Volunteer Development, YMCA of Greater Toronto and Board Member, Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration I love a dinner party. Meeting new people, yummy food, good music. I especially love the question that everyone (but me) asks [...]
Boost Volunteer Impact With Your Powerful Internal Network The primary responsibility of a manager is to develop influential partners and cultivate relationships that will help your team work better and be more productive. However, in the rush to check items off an overwhelming TO DO list, volunteer managers often resort to owning every task that [...]
Best Practices for Volunteer Programs: How to Inspire Innovation I’m a person drawn to research and learning new, creative ways to think about my purpose and path in life. Currently, I am learning about astrology and lunar cycles and how I can work with both to commit to myself and the opportunities I want to create in my [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: The Guide You Need to Crush Your Volunteer Program Goals January is viewed as a time of renewed focus. With the start of a new year comes a new and improved you, volunteer program, habits, etc. However, if you don't have the tools in place to create long-lasting change, you [...]
Nonprofit Emergency Plans: What You Need to Know When the unexpected strikes, nonprofit emergency plans can prepare volunteer organizations and programs to respond appropriately. The complete and continued devastation caused by the wildfires in Australia, as well as other locales in recent years, has many of us asking — are we ready, even for what [...]
Are You Ready for Today's Volunteer Needs? Lately, I’ve heard plenty of volunteer managers complain that there simply aren’t enough people out there volunteering or that the extensive training and commitment required by their program “scares people away.” Sometimes it seems they’ve given up all hope that volunteerism is still a viable way to deliver [...]
Our Top 10 Volunteer Management Blog Posts of 2019 In case you missed them, we’ve assembled our most popular volunteer management blog posts of the past year into one tidy list. These are the pages that were most visited by readers and represent some of your favorite topics. Enjoy! #1: This is How to [...]
