Feeling Stuck? Help Your Team Pivot to a Growth Mindset The concept of a growth mindset isn’t new but applying it specifically to nonprofits and volunteer engagement might be. In this post, we explore how to help volunteers and the co-workers who lead them to ditch the fixed mindsets that are holding them back and [...]
Our Fave VMPR 2023 Insights on Volunteer Manager Salaries For this year’s Volunteer Management Progress Report, the “Back to Business” edition, we included some fresh questions to try and gauge how getting back to business post-pandemic is shaping up for volunteer programs around the world. In our 2023 questionnaire, we asked leaders of volunteers to [...]
Volunteer Recruiting and Getting Staff Buy-In in 2023: Top Trends from This Year's Volunteer Management Progress Report Launched by VolunteerPro President and founder Tobi Johnson, the annual Volunteer Management Progress Report has provided much-needed data for volunteer-involved organizations for the past eight years. This global state-of-the-industry report offers valuable statistics and measurements on yearly [...]
Member Spotlight: Sweat Equity & Service Learning When thinking about college spring break, a beach party might be the first thing that comes to mind. However, for college and university students across the country that have partnered with (HFHI) Habitat for Humanity International, those scholars are thinking about an alternative spring break, a "Sweat Break" [...]
Pro RoundUp: Our Top 10 Countdown of VolunteerPro Fan Favorites In last week’s blog, the VolPro team shared our personal podcast recommendations from around the internet. This week, we’re looking a little closer to home and counting down the top 10 VolunteerPro fan favorites from our very own blog and podcast. With this list, [...]
Pro RoundUp: VolPro's Top Nonprofit Podcasts of the Year We’re big fans of podcasts here at VolunteerPro! I mean...what’s not to love? The storytelling, the motivation and encouragement, the business smarts, not to mention the ease of instant access and portability on your favorite mobile device. Podcasts are awesome! There is plenty of content [...]
Strategic Volunteer Engagement - Our Recommended Pathway to Success Strategic volunteer engagement is a buzzword that has been used lately to describe next generation volunteer involvement. But what does “strategic:” really mean? And what is required to achieve it? Last week, we led our very first strategic planning workshop, VisionWeek, specifically for strategic planning [...]
Member Spotlight: Focusing on Community & Team By engaging volunteers and asking key questions, Amanda Maragos, MHCM, CVRM, Director of Client Services and Volunteer Programs and her team at Phillip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care and Emily’s House Children’s Hospice have built a community that retains volunteers who are mobilized to serve. Amanda is joined [...]
