Pro Roundup: Inspire Volunteer Involvement with 9 MUST Watch TED Talks A large part of your role as a leader is to inspire volunteer involvement; that is, to motivate individuals to use their time and talent to help achieve collective action. But what do you do when you are not exactly feeling inspired yourself? It [...]
Walk the Talk: Bring Volunteers into Volunteer Services As a volunteer leader in your organization, you may be a department of just one. You may not even be able to call yourself a department. You may be working alone and be the sole person responsible for engaging volunteers. As a result, you may be [...]
Developing and Engaging a Volunteer Community Online Throughout the course of this pandemic, we have been getting a lot of questions in the VolunteerPro Membership Community on the topic of making a plan for developing and engaging your volunteer community online. Before 2020, engaging with anyone in-person was compulsory. You pass people in the [...]
How to Talk About Race & Volunteerism: Advice for Allies Over the past five years of Volunteer Management Progress Report surveys, we’ve cataloged an ever-present reality of the field of volunteer management – that our pool of professionals (at least here in the United States) is comprised primarily of White, educated women. This often prompts me [...]
Images of Volunteerism Are you on the hunt for perfect images of volunteerism for your organization’s marketing materials, social media campaigns, or website, but not sure where to start? I’ve been there before! When I inherited the volunteer program in my last position, one of my first tasks was to work with our marketing team to update the logo [...]
Managing Volunteers: A Little History and Wisdom from over 10 Years of Helping Helpers Managing volunteers is much more complicated than it looks, isn’t it? Last Saturday, I was doing a Facebook Live with some of my fellow Master Gardener volunteers. We go live and chat about all things gardening (usually veggies) for about an [...]
Providing Exceptional Experiences for One-Time, Short-term, and Event Volunteers + Email Scripts If fundraising is part of your job description, then short-term event volunteers are likely part of your life. But there are so many other ways event volunteers can help your cause, by giving their time in small amounts. Local student service clubs, employee [...]
Volunteer Fundraising and Friendraising Online: Tips for Uncertain Times In an uncertain economy, nonprofits need to do everything they can to ensure their sustainability, including volunteer fundraising initiatives. Certainly, boards of directors and regular fundraising event volunteers are already engaged in raising needed revenue for your cause. But, what about other volunteers? Given recent shifts in volunteer [...]
