Member Spotlight: How to Build Volunteer Community from the Ground Up As a leader of volunteers, one of your key responsibilities may be to build volunteer community, But it isn’t always easy, particularly when volunteers are working remotely or are routinely taking breaks from service. But it’s important that volunteers continue to feel connected to [...]
How One Member Improved Her Volunteer Manager Productivity Through Focused Changes & Smarter Strategy This month, we’re spotlighting another member on her journey to growth and excellence through better volunteer manager productivity. Susan Nussall, with the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education, has been able to engage 1,200 to 1,400 episodic volunteers a [...]
The Virtual Volunteer Lifecycle: A Complete Guide Just like traditional, in-person volunteering, there is a virtual volunteer lifecycle. There are key tools you need to have in place to ensure you are engaging virtual volunteers on every step of the journey. From first touch to departure. In a recent blog post, we wrote about how virtual [...]
Communicating With Volunteers: Emails They’ll Want to Open A lot of the work that you do as a leader of volunteers is communicating with volunteers at varying levels. And much if it is done using good old-fashioned email. But how do you make sure volunteers open, read, and respond to your emails? At VolunteerPro, we [...]
Virtual Volunteerism: Innovative Ideas to Increase Engagement in Your Nonprofit It’s been almost a year since the pandemic forced shutdowns to keep our communities safe and healthy, yet virtual volunteerism is still a hot topic in the volunteer engagement field. There are a few reasons for that: Leaders of volunteers KNOW that their mission still needs support, but are [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: Digital Marketing for Nonprofit Success No doubt, you’ve felt the line blurring between your job and that of digital marketing for nonprofit organizations. It’s really become part of anyone’s job who communicates regularly with others. Through advancements in digital technology, marketers are better able to identify, target and communicate with prospects. In turn, [...]
Unique Challenges & Solutions for Rural Volunteers The unique challenges of engaging rural volunteers are well documented. Around the world, leaders of volunteers who work in rural and frontier areas are challenged to find creative solutions to volunteer mobilization when little, if any, infrastructure exists. And yet, highly engaged rural volunteers can also be important assets for building [...]
Developing and Engaging a Volunteer Community Online Throughout the course of this pandemic, we have been getting a lot of questions in the VolunteerPro Membership Community on the topic of making a plan for developing and engaging your volunteer community online. Before 2020, engaging with anyone in-person was compulsory. You pass people in the [...]
