How to Show Volunteers are Priceless with an Impact Portfolio Much as corporate shareholders seek positive growth in their financial portfolios, volunteers and donors want to see their investment in good causes reap rewards in the form of a social return on investment, or volunteer ROI. You know your volunteers are priceless. With an [...]
How to Convince Your Boss to Approve Your Resource Requests If your requests for approval for volunteer resources have been shot down by your boss, you no doubt understand how deflating it can be and how it can tank your motivation. Believe me, I’ve been there. I’ve even experienced this in well-funded environments where [...]
5 Smart Nonprofit Investments That Pay Off Big Time If your organization is short on time or money, then making strategic nonprofit investments in your volunteer approach makes a lot of sense. Successful volunteer engagement is all about choices in your management and leadership direction. After all, why waste time spinning your wheels on [...]
Managing the Volunteer Turnover Tsunami The cover of this month’s Talent Development, the flagship magazine of the global Association for Talent Development (ATD), is emblazoned with the title “Manage the Resignation Tsunami.” This immediately brings to mind current issues around volunteer retention and what might be done to reduce turnover. It may surprise some [...]
Promoting Resilience Through Citywide Volunteer Engagement Strategies Volunteer engagement is a powerful strategy to strengthen communities and increase civic resilience; however, it is rarely seen as a key solution to community issues. Maybe it’s time to change that. What Keeps Communities Resilient? The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with Arup, developed The City Resilience Index based on [...]
4 Practical Ways to Strengthen Your Volunteer Training for Nonprofits When designing volunteer training for nonprofits, your biggest challenge may be how to create a complete program that doesn’t scare volunteers away. Often, organizations have daunting amounts of information volunteers must learn in order to perform with confidence. Programs must be assured that volunteers [...]
5 Surprising Myths About Volunteers and Donors Are volunteers and donors different kinds of people? Do they deserve different investments or treatment at our nonprofits based on their “value” as supporters? Should we consider volunteers as donors and vice versa? When we think about how volunteers and donors are treated at our agencies, they’re often [...]
4 Simple Steps to Win More Funding for Volunteers Even if you’ve been turned down in the past, you can still succeed at generating more volunteer funding for your program efforts. But, it may take a smarter approach and a fresh point of view to pull it off. The good news is that we’ve got [...]
