The Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is more than a welcome three-day weekend or time to shop for bargain towels and discounts on bedding. It’s about something more. It is a celebration of the human spirit and the power and promise of volunteerism and citizen engagement. Now, more than ever, it’s a time [...]
In Part 1 of this post, we noted that volunteer program assessments are a great way to get candid volunteer feedback and boost leadership at the same time. We also noted some of the benefits of involving volunteers in an audit of your operations and identified three preliminary steps to setting up your volunteer team [...]
Volunteer program assessments are a great way to get candid volunteer feedback and boost leadership at the same time. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t take time out to reflect on their current practices in a purposeful, comprehensive way. But, if volunteers are truly essential to your mission, doesn’t it make sense to maximize their environment so [...]
Although we’d like to think that volunteers learn most of what they need know during our formal volunteer training, in reality, most of what we learn, we learn by doing when we’re on the job. This makes mentoring volunteers of utmost importance. On-the-job training may, in fact, be the most effective training strategy—even more [...]
Yes, You Can Actually Learn How to Let a Volunteer Go Volunteer management isn’t easy. As leaders of volunteers, you are often responsible for a wide range of duties. You manage schedules and manage feelings (of your volunteers, your co-workers, and yourself). It can be exhausting. There’s one simple thing you can do to lighten [...]
If you send volunteer communications emails on a regular basis, you may find that your writing becomes stale and rote over time. It happens, even to pro copywriters. Sometimes it helps to get “outside the box” and rethink your communications, because if they are boring to you, they are likely boring your volunteers. Your writing [...]
The Pro Round Up: Advocating for Volunteer Resource Management Happy Friday! We've put together a list of some of the best content for volunteer resource management advocation from the past couple of weeks. First, we released our third-annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey this week! Take the survey now (it takes less than 15 minutes) to [...]
To all those involved in volunteer management around the world, Happy International Volunteer Managers Day! We are celebrating all week! In keeping with this year’s theme of “be the voice,” we are releasing the 2018 Volunteer Management Progress Report survey this week. We hope you will take a moment to take the survey and become [...]
