Future-proof Volunteer Engagement with Online Volunteer Opportunities Are you wondering if online volunteer opportunities are something you should be offering more of (or at all)? The short answer is “yes!” Aside from offering flexibility to supporters who have busy lives, thus making your nonprofit an attractive place to serve, online volunteer opportunities also help your [...]
Member Spotlight: Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Volunteer Service This month, we sit down with VolunteerPro member Saskia Rinkoff to discuss some fresh ways her organization is embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion through “Sight Guide” volunteers, and how those efforts are making the arts more accessible to a larger audience. Chelsey: Hi Saskia! Tell me [...]
Pro RoundUp: Volunteer Appreciation Week 2023 – Easy, Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Your Team In the U.S. and in Canada, Volunteer Appreciation Week 2023 is just about a month away and many volunteer-involving organizations are looking ahead to plan special ways of celebrating and recognizing the priceless service their volunteer teams provide. As this year’s [...]
Diversity and Inclusion in Volunteer Opportunities: What’s the Role of Volunteer Managers? While many people are interested in promoting and championing diversity and inclusion in volunteer opportunities, my sense is that many people feel overwhelmed with the idea of actually pulling it off. On a personal level, they feel worried or confused about how to [...]
Recruitment for Volunteers - What it Takes in 2023 Recruitment for volunteers is a perennial struggle for nonprofits. In our most recent Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, one-third (33%) of volunteer managers reported volunteer recruitment as their top challenge. In the past eight years of our research, recruitment has dominated the open-ended responses to our [...]
How to Boost Volunteer Recruitment with These Outcome Metrics As joyful and rewarding as nonprofit work can be, the standard workday for many also often includes long hours, constant interruptions, and a million pressing tasks that seem to eat away at your staff’s precious time. Too often, this is because organizations do not have [...]
Member Spotlight: Matching Volunteer Roles And Creating The Perfect Fit for Every Volunteer Placing volunteers can be a lot like matchmaking, and finding the right fit for both the organization and volunteer is critical for long-term success. At Humane Fort Wayne, they are taking matchmaking to another level by connecting with volunteer passions from day one. [...]
Pro Roundup: A Month of Love with Free Nonprofit Tools, Downloads, and Templates Here at VolunteerPro, we love helping nonprofits and volunteer organizations elevate their programs and accelerate their growth through our world-class training and professional membership community. And while we don't really need an excuse, we felt like February was the perfect time to [...]
