Strategic Volunteer Engagement for 2025 – Your VisionWeek FAQs If you’re planning for strategic volunteer engagement in 2025, now’s the time to get your plan out of your head and down in writing. If you’ve been struggling to get a concrete plan in place, we’ve got good news. Strategic volunteer engagement planning does not [...]
Member Spotlight: Designing an Extraordinary Guest Experience by Empowering Your Volunteers What would it look like if volunteers had the power to design a magical guest experience at your organization? Ashley Rieser, Director of Volunteer Services & Front of House Guest Experience is helping volunteers create a lasting love of the arts at Pittsburgh Cultural [...]
Volunteer Engagement Strategy Versus Tactics for 2023 Strategy versus tactics – what’s driving your volunteer engagement plan for 2023? If you are directly responsible for recruiting and retaining committed volunteers – or are an executive who wants to grow volunteer impact at your organization – now’s the time to come up with your plan for [...]
How to Build a Strategic Volunteer Engagement Plan (and Why You Should!) Every week, I hear from volunteer managers who are struggling to build (or rebuild) a strategic volunteer engagement plan for their organizations. After all the recent disruption in the sector, they’ve come to realize that a fresh look is both important and necessary [...]
2023 Volunteer Management Progress Report Survey Now Open The 2023 Volunteer Management Progress Report, our eighth annual state-of-the-industry survey, is open for data submission until November 22. Back in 2016, we launched our first-ever Volunteer Management Progress Report, a signature project of my company Tobi Johnson & Associates | VolunteerPro. At the time, the field [...]
Living Our Corporate Values: Meet the VolPro Team Values are the north star for organizations and help them maintain a positive team culture. However, many organizations simply list the characteristics (or values) they would like to embody but don’t offer their teams guidance on how to operationalize them. Here at VolunteerPro, values statements [...]
Blazing a Trail for Virtual Volunteer Opportunites Who is at the heart of all wishes granted through the chapters of Make-A-Wish® America? The volunteers! For this month’s VolPro Member Spotlight, we are chatting with Lisa Brinkerhoff, CVA, CNP, the Director, Volunteer Engagement at Make-A-Wish® America, about how volunteers continue to pivot, finding new ways to connect [...]
Share Your Program's ROI with a Volunteer Impact Portfolio It’s no secret that volunteer services departments suffer from an often stunning lack of adequate resources, and the perennial question is always, "How do we get more money?" One way to encourage deeper support is to routinely and concretely show how the resources were used effectively [...]
