How to Better Engage Volunteers with Excellent Customer Service Volunteer engagement may feel like it’s getting harder and harder, but research shows interest in volunteerism is on the rise. So, what gives? How can it be that volunteer rates are booming, yet volunteer organizations still struggle to connect with talent? It may be because volunteers [...]
7 Creative Ways to Recruit Volunteers with Free Content In last week’s blog post, I recommended that nonprofits consider creative ways to recruit volunteers with free content. This week, I get down to brass tacks about what that means in more detail. Using Content Marketing to Attract Volunteers Gone are the days when “cold [...]
3 Ironclad Ways to Better Recruit Volunteers Online If you want to grow volunteer participation at your nonprofit and are seeking new ideas for recruiting volunteers online, you’re on the right track. Now, more than ever, recruiting volunteers online is your best bet for connecting with potential supporters. Research now shows that Americans spend [...]
This is How to Use Brain Research for Volunteer Recruitment If you’ve been wondering why your volunteer recruitment ideas aren’t working, you’re not alone. Year over year, it’s the #1 issue raised by those who take our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey. The fact is that years ago, it was relatively easy to put up [...]
How to Breakthrough with a Sensational Volunteer Training Program We’ve all been there … You spend countless hours developing your volunteer training program. You gather all of your volunteers together on the same day to learn, no small feat as they all have conflicting schedules and live miles away. You deliver the course, and you [...]
This article was originally published on tobijohnson.com. Why You Need to Reduce Cognitive Bias in Your Meetings Have you ever been in a volunteer or board meeting where one person suggests a course of action and everyone just goes with it, without really questioning the viability of the solution? Conversely, have you ever been in a [...]
The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Volunteer Training If you lead volunteers, it’s likely you’ll be called upon to design and deliver presentations as part of your online volunteer training or orientations. I’ve been participating in and presenting webinars for about a decade now and I’m sad to say, we’ve still got some work to [...]
Volunteer UX: The #1 Key to Deeper Engagement If you’re looking for the key to better retention and deeper volunteer engagement, it won’t be found through some outside source or “miracle cure.” It won’t be solved by a better policy or procedure (although these can help). Nor, will it be because you added one more [...]
