Member Spotlight: Starting a Nonprofit to Support Middle School Extracurriculars In this month’s Member Spotlight, we sit down with VolunteerPro Member Amber Lancaster, founder of Start1Spark, who shares about her experience starting a new nonprofit in the middle of a global pandemic and what inspired her to take the leap. How Pandemic Shutdowns Highlighted Economic [...]
Pro Roundup: A Month of Love with Free Nonprofit Tools, Downloads, and Templates Here at VolunteerPro, we love helping nonprofits and volunteer organizations elevate their programs and accelerate their growth through our world-class training and professional membership community. And while we don't really need an excuse, we felt like February was the perfect time to [...]
Feeling Stuck? Help Your Team Pivot to a Growth Mindset 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 to ditch the fixed mindsets that are holding them back and [...]
Our Fave VMPR 2023 Insights on Volunteer Manager Salaries For this year’s Volunteer Management Progress Report, the “Back to Business” edition, we included some fresh questions to try and gauge how getting back to business post-pandemic is shaping up for volunteer programs around the world. In our 2023 questionnaire, we asked leaders of volunteers to [...]
Volunteer Recruiting and Getting Staff Buy-In in 2023: Top Trends from This Year's Volunteer Management Progress Report Launched by VolunteerPro President and founder Tobi Johnson, the annual Volunteer Management Progress Report has provided much-needed data for volunteer-involved organizations for the past eight years. This global state-of-the-industry report offers valuable statistics and measurements on yearly [...]
Strategic Volunteer Engagement - Our Recommended Pathway to Success Strategic volunteer engagement is a buzzword that has been used lately to describe next generation volunteer involvement. But what does “strategic:” really mean? And what is required to achieve it? Last week, we led our very first strategic planning workshop, VisionWeek, specifically for strategic planning [...]
Strategic Volunteer Engagement for 2024 – Your VisionWeek FAQs If you’re planning for strategic volunteer engagement in 2024, now’s the time to get your plan out of your head and down in writing. If you’ve been struggling to get a concrete plan in place, we’ve got good news. Strategic volunteer engagement planning does not [...]
2023 Volunteer Management Progress Report Survey Now Open The 2023 Volunteer Management Progress Report, our eighth annual state-of-the-industry survey, is open for data submission until November 22. Back in 2016, we launched our first-ever Volunteer Management Progress Report, a signature project of my company Tobi Johnson & Associates | VolunteerPro. At the time, the field [...]
