4 Best Practices to Boost Every Volunteer Program Last week, we hosted a live masterclass on best practices in volunteer management. We featured 3 of our very own VolunteerPro members who shared how they tackle and overcome their biggest challenges. They had tons of actionable wisdom to share, so we’re breaking down the key takeaways [...]
How To Actually Shift Your Nonprofit's Volunteer Culture You Can Keep Your Violins The calling to be a volunteer manager is quite abstract. This is mostly because Volunteer Management isn’t recognized as a professional career path, leaders of volunteers usually don’t control their own budget dollars, and the position is often seen as entry-level. The [...]
3 Proven Volunteer Program Development Models There are a few different ways of looking at volunteer program development. Today we will look at three models: The Volunteer Lifecycle Levels of Volunteer Engagement Volunteers as Community Assets All perspectives may be valid depending on the management decisions you are trying to make, the problems you [...]
How To Accelerate True Change In Your Volunteer Program What's Your "Delta?" What’s your volunteer program “delta”? No, not the alluvial deposits at the mouth of a river. Rather, as you build a volunteer program strategic plan, what is the change you hope to bring about? Do you know? If you don’t know [...]
How to Develop Bold Volunteer Management Strategies What is the very best your nonprofit can achieve in partnership with volunteers? Have you thought about volunteer management strategies lately? Or, when you dream of the future, do you stop yourself short? You’ll only be disappointed anyway, right? Wrong! To make big difference in the world, [...]
6 Emerging Volunteerism Research Insights for 2019 Current volunteerism research data is hard to come by. The NCVO’s UK-based Time Well Spent study and the Corporation for National and Community Service’s US-based Volunteering in America report are notable recent examples of data specifically about the volunteer experience. Verified Volunteers has also contributed to this body [...]
8 Free Service Learning Resources for Better Internships If you are ready to stop scrambling and start generating a consistent pipeline of support, service learning is the answer. Service learning programs, or internships as you may know them, are structured volunteer opportunities with an educational component. Volunteer organizations most often partner with colleges and universities, [...]
How to Unlock Volunteer Management Professional Development Guest Post by: Alana Knoppow, MSW, Volunteer Program Manager, Hospice of Michigan and Arbor Hospice One of the Biggest Challenges for Leaders of Volunteers One of the biggest challenges we face as nonprofit professionals is volunteer management professional development. We know there are resources available to us that we can’t get [...]
