Nonprofit Marketing: How Marcoms & Volunteer Services Can Work Toward Greater Synergy When implementing your nonprofit marketing strategy, do the communications staff work in close collaboration with those who are recruiting volunteers? If so, you’re likely the exception, not the norm. In today’s world, most volunteer services and communications staff consider their work as separate [...]
9 Hot Tips to Build a Stellar Feedback Survey for Volunteers Right now is an excellent time to release a survey for volunteers, and gain insights about how you can better support your team and remove any roadblocks they are facing to full involvement. You can use a feedback questionnaire to [...]
Coordinating Volunteers: How to Set the Stage for Leadership Roles To truly scale their impact, nonprofits must not only focus on coordinating volunteers for general roles. They must also seek to develop volunteers who can lead their peers. However, it isn't always easy, especially in today’s world where volunteers, fatigued from the past two [...]
How to Get Media Coverage During National Volunteer Week 2022: Part 2 National Volunteer Week 2022 is here (April 17-24, in the US)! This week is the perfect time to attract media attention to your volunteers and to leverage the media to make the public aware of your opportunities, share your volunteer appeals, and [...]
How to Get Media Coverage During National Volunteer Week: Part 1 National Volunteer Week is next week (April 17-24) here in the US, and it’s a fantastic time to get media attention to publicly celebrate of the valuable contributions of volunteers. Because the press is focused on volunteerism during National Volunteer Week in particular, [...]
Pro Roundup: 51 Superhero Volunteer Appreciation Quotes to Celebrate Looking for some great volunteer appreciation quotes to acknowledge the work of volunteers and the power of volunteerism? Look no further! April is Global Volunteer Month and National Volunteer Week is April 17-23, Now is a wonderful time to celebrate the impact of superhero volunteers [...]
How to Integrate Volunteer Onboarding for Better Engagement Successful volunteer onboarding and deep volunteer engagement don't happen by chance. It takes a thoughtful, multi-layered strategy to convert joiners to stayers and to set the stage for future leadership. We often think of onboarding as simply training volunteers on policies and procedures, then placing them, job done. But [...]
Are You Making These Two Mistakes in Your Volunteer Retention Strategies? When it comes to volunteer retention strategies, your first instincts for how to encourage people to keep coming back might not the best ones. In fact, they might just shoot you in the foot. It turns out human beings aren’t very rational in their [...]
