Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: How to Use Facebook Groups for Nonprofits If you want to create an online space where your organization’s volunteers, supporters, staff, and/or the general community can visit to engage with your work, it’s time to consider starting a Facebook group for your nonprofit. A Facebook group is separate from your [...]
How to Motivate Volunteers & Get Buy-In for Outcomes Management When we think about how to motivate volunteers, we often first think of volunteer recognition activities. How can we reward volunteers for their dedicated service? What should we include in this year’s recognition luncheon? How can we get our co-workers to show their appreciation more [...]
2 Powerful Ways to Spark Change when Mobilizing Communities When things get stuck, and progress isn’t being made, mobilizing communities to bring about change can feel impossible. But, the fact is that current realities aren’t set in stone. They can – and DO – change over time. Consider a woman’s right to vote. It’s something [...]
How to Craft Volunteer Newsletters People Actually Want to Read Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators Communicating with volunteers can be a challenge, especially when volunteer coordinators are tasked with writing engaging newsletters, without formal training in content marketing. A lot goes into writing a newsletter volunteers can’t wait to read: determining the best layout, crafting [...]
This is How to Empower Your Volunteer Background Checks As a leader and advocate for volunteer involvement at your agency, you may feel conflicted about conducting volunteer background checks. After all, volunteers work for free, don’t they? Can we really expect this from them? What does it say about our level of trust? Nothing’s happened [...]
The Best Ways to Advocate for Volunteer Administration in Just 15 Minutes Last week, I pointed to some pretty troubling trends in the field of volunteer administration. This week, I’d like to focus on what we can do about it. Each year the responses to our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey paint a grim picture [...]
Beware of These 6 Trends Lurking in Your Volunteer Program Over the past four years, we’ve collected a significant amount of data on how business is conducted with the volunteer program. Over 5,000 leaders of volunteers in 18 countries have taken our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey and we’ve all learned so much about [...]
This is How to Leverage Google to Find Volunteers Online Wondering how to find volunteers that are interested in both volunteering and your particular cause? Look no further than the most ubiquitous tool out there – Google. But you’ve got to set yourself up for success. Too many nonprofits miss out on the very basics [...]
