Pro Round Up: Advocating for Volunteer Resource Management
The Pro Round Up: Advocating for Volunteer Resource Management Happy Friday! We've put together a list of some of the best content for volunteer resource management advocation from the past couple of weeks. First, we released [...]
How to Advocate for Volunteer Management in Just 10 Minutes
To all those involved in volunteer management around the world, Happy International Volunteer Managers Day! We are celebrating all week! In keeping with this year’s theme of “be the voice,” we are releasing the 2018 [...]
10 Things I Regret About My First Volunteer Training
I was looking back through some of the slide decks I developed when I first started creating volunteer training. They made me cringe! I suppose we all have to start somewhere, and my journey to becoming [...]
4 Ways to Wow! New Volunteers Wth Superior Service
New volunteers arrive at nonprofits with expectations and feelings. They negotiate conflicting emotions – surprise, anticipation, joy, fear, ambiguity, etc. – as they acclimate to their new surroundings. During this critical time in the volunteer’s lifecycle, these [...]
8 Volunteer Program Development References You Can’t Do Without
As we approach the end of 2017, it might be a good time to revisit your volunteer strategy and refresh it for 2018. Below are eight of our favorite resources for volunteer program development and strategic [...]
Meeting Youth Volunteer Motivation Head On
One of the most researched and validated theories of volunteer motivation is that functional motives drive the volunteers willingness to join and continue the volunteer activity. Scholars argue that certain pre-exiting needs must be met in order [...]
