2 Things You Need to Build the Perfect Volunteer Team Volunteer teams, like all things related to leadership, require thoughtful planning and strategy. They require deliberate actions that, when you’re first starting your team, may feel awkward or forced. Though we often think of leadership as an inherited quality, it’s more often the sum [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Online With Powerful Calls to Action Most volunteer managers know how to recruit volunteers online, but many are leaving talent on the table by not encouraging interested visitors to take the next step toward joining. The good news is that there are specific, proven things you can do to quickly level [...]
How to Write Better Volunteer Recruitment Messaging As a volunteer coordinator, chances are you didn’t get into your profession because you wanted to do marketing. And yet, as you scan your project and the volunteer needs your organization has, you find yourself recruiting, recruiting, recruiting. We feel you. Volunteer recruitment can seem like a [...]
How to Write Powerful, Targeted Volunteer Recruitment Ads Many moons ago, when I was a high school junior, my English Composition teacher required us to include four points at the top of every paper we submitted. They were: name, date, purpose, audience. Even then, I was being prepared to write volunteer recruitment ads. By that [...]
How to Restore Healthy Boundaries for Volunteer Coordinators To preface any discussion about healthy boundaries, especially in volunteer management, it’s important to start by talking about the line that should never be gray, and never be crossed. There are a few things to which your work and boss are not entitled. Your health, family, sanity, [...]
Volunteer Coordination and Time Management (not an oxymoron) For as long as there has been volunteer coordination, there has been multitasking. And for as long as there have been volunteer coordination challenges, there have been questions of prioritization. In budget-limited organizations, we all get called upon to wear multiple hats with the assumption (requirement?) that [...]
Do You Make These Community Partnership Development Mistakes? If you’re new to developing community partnerships or just don’t seem to be getting the results or follow through you expect from your partners, you may be unwittingly making common community partnership development mistakes. Here’s a rundown of the 10 most common sticking points to avoid. The [...]
How to Advocate for Your Nonprofit Budget for Volunteers When you think about increasing your nonprofit budget for your volunteer program, do you see a chain link fence or a wide open field? What you see may impact what you are able to achieve. As industrialist Henry Ford noted, “Whether you think you can, [...]
