Nonprofit Leadership and Volunteers: Skills, Competencies and Models Now, more than ever, volunteer administrators are called upon to strengthen their nonprofit leadership skills. The ability to inspire and influence is critical to a volunteer coordinator's success on the job. Whether they work with volunteers, community partners, executive management, or colleagues, a coordinator must have skills [...]
Nonprofit Marketing: How Marcoms & Volunteer Services Can Work Toward Greater Synergy When implementing your nonprofit marketing strategy, do the communications staff work in close collaboration with those who are recruiting volunteers? If so, you’re likely the exception, not the norm. In today’s world, most volunteer services and communications staff consider their work as separate [...]
June Pro RoundUp: Mindset Resources for Volunteer Coordinators The past 2+ years have undoubtedly been a challenge to our organizations, and volunteer leaders across the globe are breathing a collective (but cautious) sigh of relief as pandemic restrictions slowly lift, volunteers return to service, and departments are again recruiting, training, and placing talent into key [...]
9 Hot Tips to Build a Stellar Feedback Survey for Volunteers Right now is an excellent time to release a survey for volunteers, and gain insights about how you can better support your team and remove any roadblocks they are facing to full involvement. You can use a feedback questionnaire to [...]
Summer Reading - It's Not Just for the Kids! Have you thought about some summer reading for your nonprofit? Springtime is warming into summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, and schools are nearing semester’s end. The hot, sunny days of June, July, and August are nearly upon us. It is [...]
Reduce Early Turnover with Better Volunteer Orientations When you think about your new volunteer orientation, what images does it bring up? Is it filled with people who are energized, engaged, and excited to meet one another and get started with your worthy cause? Or does it feel more like a [...]
Coordinating Volunteers: How to Set the Stage for Leadership Roles To truly scale their impact, nonprofits must not only focus on coordinating volunteers for general roles. They must also seek to develop volunteers who can lead their peers. However, it isn't always easy, especially in today’s world where volunteers, fatigued from the past two [...]
Volunteer Nation, Our New Nonprofit Podcast is Here! After literally YEARS of planning (and procrastination, let’s be honest!), my new nonprofit podcast is finally ready for primetime. I could not be more thrilled! I am pleased to introduce Volunteer Nation, the new weekly nonprofit podcast in our lineup. It joins the Time + Talent Podcast [...]
