make , Engaging Volunteers Online and Building Community: How We Do It The Top Line One surefire way to improve your volunteer program is to build connection by engaging volunteers online. As a leader of volunteers, you’ve probably met most, if not all, of your current volunteer team. You make time to connect, check in [...]
Member Spotlight: One Member’s Creative Recruitment Ideas To Grow Program Capacity In this member spotlight, we sit down with Kari Siverhus, Volunteer Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity La Cross Area, to talk about some creative recruitment ideas that she’s implemented to attract new supporters for her organization and build her program’s capacity to impact the [...]
Your Complete Guide to Superior Word-of-Mouth Volunteer Recruitment The Top Line A thoughtful word-of-mouth volunteer recruitment campaign has a better chance of getting traction than relying on random moments of enthusiasm or a few superstars. Therefore, get everyone involved – both volunteers and employees – in helping raise awareness about opportunities to support your organization’s [...]
Volunteer Matching: Finding the Right Role for Every Volunteer The Top Line Most organizations don’t spend a lot of time on volunteer matching. Instead, they use a one-size-fits-all approach to assign work based on the most pressing needs at the time. While this may feel expedient, matching volunteers with roles that don’t fit results in [...]
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 [...]
Strategic Volunteer Engagement – Your VisionWeek FAQs If you’re planning for strategic volunteer engagement, 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 need to be difficult [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
