Your Mindset is Your #1 Volunteer Management Superpower We've put together a free mini-series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to help you develop your best volunteer program ever. Each focuses on a different volunteer management skills and comes with a free tool to help you master it. First off, we're starting with your mindset, which [...]
How to Assess Your Nonprofit's Digital Maturity As we find ourselves more and more firmly rooted in the digital age, it makes sense to consider a nonprofit technology assessment. These can help us see digital maturity levels in our volunteer programs. With rapidly evolving public preferences, there's clearly increased stress on nonprofits to compete. Without [...]
Last week, during our masterclass on measuring volunteer impact, I asked participants to consider a shift in thinking about volunteer human resources. Defining volunteers as human resources is, of course, a traditional way of looking at things in volunteer administration. And, it’s not without merit. It tends to align with the way we think of [...]
How to Add Social Media to Your Online Volunteer Training Wondering how to add more interaction to your online volunteer training? Why not add social learning to the mix? Social learning is a powerful part of a blended learning strategy that combines training events and activities presented in-person and online. As online learning technology tools [...]
Proven Impact is the Key to Winning Volunteer Grants We often get questions about how to find and secure volunteer grants, funding for volunteer coordinators, and resources for volunteer programming. Often, staff members have high hopes that if they just find the right funder, they can go directly to the source and get funding for [...]
How to Write Volunteer Surveys for Big Impact If you’re like most nonprofits, you probably send out annual volunteer surveys to gauge satisfaction. You may get a small number of responses, not every volunteer participates, and you wonder what you’re missing. You may be able to report volunteer satisfaction levels to leadership -- maybe [...]
How to Master Effective Delegation in Volunteer Management Effective delegation is one of the beautiful, but potentially challenging aspects of building a strong volunteer team. As a leader with a trained and stable group of volunteers, your job as the volunteer manager can evolve to entrusting roles to your volunteers versus doing everything yourself. The [...]
This is How to Ask Better Volunteer Survey Questions No matter what you need to learn about volunteers – their satisfaction, their impact on clients, their needs, or the reasons they leave – crafting the right volunteer survey questions can help you make smart management choices. What’s more, the data you gather will allow [...]
