How To Actually Shift Your Nonprofit's Volunteer Culture You Can Keep Your Violins The calling to be a volunteer manager is quite abstract. This is mostly because Volunteer Management isn’t recognized as a professional career path, leaders of volunteers usually don’t control their own budget dollars, and the position is often seen as entry-level. The [...]
3 Proven Volunteer Program Development Models There are a few different ways of looking at volunteer program development. Today we will look at three models: The Volunteer Lifecycle Levels of Volunteer Engagement Volunteers as Community Assets All perspectives may be valid depending on the management decisions you are trying to make, the problems you [...]
How To Accelerate True Change In Your Volunteer Program What's Your "Delta?" What’s your volunteer program “delta”? No, not the alluvial deposits at the mouth of a river. Rather, as you build a volunteer program strategic plan, what is the change you hope to bring about? Do you know? If you don’t know [...]
How to Unlock Volunteer Management Professional Development Guest Post by: Alana Knoppow, MSW, Volunteer Program Manager, Hospice of Michigan and Arbor Hospice One of the Biggest Challenges for Leaders of Volunteers One of the biggest challenges we face as nonprofit professionals is volunteer management professional development. We know there are resources available to us that we can’t get [...]
How to Skyrocket Your Team's Success Using Volunteer Mentors On our blog, we’ve shared some of the distinct advantages of volunteer teams; today, we want to expand on ways peer-to-peer volunteer mentors can expand your team’s skills and knowledge. Mentoring doesn’t just help volunteers, it can help staff save time by cultivating independent, thoughtful volunteer [...]
Teen Volunteering: How to Actually Engage Young People There’s a lot to like about teen volunteering, and since Global Youth Service Day was last weekend, now’s a great time to explore how to engage more youth in service. With a little bit of effort, everyone can win. Nonprofits can benefit from the enthusiasm of teenagers, [...]
10 Free, Last Minute Ways to Celebrate National Volunteer Week In the hustle and bustle of new-year strategic planning and onboarding new recruits, you may not have had time to think about National Volunteer Week. That’s why we’re here, two days before, giving you a friendly nudge to get you going. Let this be your [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers by Appealing to the Emotions Now, more than ever, our messages occupy a crowded landscape, and recruitment of volunteers is more difficult. Even if your volunteer/potential volunteer has opted into your communication, you’ll still be competing with all the other information they are interested in receiving via email, text, social, [...]
