Share Your Program's ROI with a Volunteer Impact Portfolio The Top Line: The idea of tracking volunteer ROI isn’t new, but presenting it as a living, visual Volunteer Impact Portfolio – rather than a once‑a‑year annual report – might be. In this post, we explore how to use continuous improvement, outcome indicators, and an [...]
Volunteer Screening: How to Strengthen Bonds from First Touch The Top Line: The idea of treating volunteer screening as a human‑centered, trust‑building process isn’t radical, but putting it ahead of risk management in volunteer engagement might be. In this post, we explore how to move from a “swipe left” mentality to a relationship‑first approach [...]
How to Build a Strategic Volunteer Engagement Plan (and Why You Should!) The Top Line: Every week, I hear from volunteer managers who are struggling to build (or rebuild) a strategic volunteer engagement plan for their organizations. After all the recent disruption in the sector, they’ve come to realize that a fresh look is [...]
Back to Basics With a Look at Overall Volunteer Strategy The Top Line: For many volunteer organizations, the slow(er) season of late summer/early fall is approaching. This is always a great time to get back to basics and review the overall volunteer strategy and processes for your organization. It's an opportunity to take a [...]
Beyond Volunteer Appreciation Week – Appreciate Volunteers Every Day The Top Line: We are fortunate to have annual Volunteer Appreciation Weeks or Volunteer Appreciation Months. In such instances, leaders of volunteers focus on ways to publicly recognize the incredible individuals who offer their time and talent. These are chances to express to those volunteers - [...]
Member Spotlight: Sweat Equity & Service Learning When thinking about college spring break, a beach party might be the first thing that comes to mind. However, college and university students across the country who partner with (HFHI) Habitat for Humanity International think about an alternative spring break, a "Sweat Break" if you will. In this VolunteerPro [...]
Feeling Stuck? Help Your Team Pivot to a Growth Mindset The Top Line: The concept of a growth mindset isn’t new, but applying it specifically to nonprofits and volunteer engagement might be. In this post, we explore how to help volunteers, and the co-workers who lead them, ditch the fixed mindsets that hold them [...]
Free Nonprofit Tools--With Love, VolPro The Top Line: Ah, it's too bad Valentine's Day only happens once a year. Here at VolunteerPro, we love helping nonprofits and volunteer organizations elevate programs and accelerate growth through our world-class training and professional membership community. We don't need an excuse like Valentine's Day and the loving month of [...]
