The Complete Guide to Volunteer Management Competencies for Today's Leaders At the end of the year, it's a natural time to assess your own nonprofit leadership skills and whether they meet today's core volunteer management competencies. Are you equipped and ready to meet the challenges of the year ahead? Where are your strengths? What are [...]
How Smart Tech Can Improve Your Outreach to Volunteer Candidates Outreach to volunteer candidates may seem to be getting harder than ever. But with a few new tactics, and a tech-forward approach, you can begin to attract a whole new audience of enthusiastic supporters. Advances in technology have always incited shifts of culture. Those same advances [...]
How Your Mindset Impacts Your Volunteer Leadership Work Your mindset is THE most important skill you can master in volunteer leadership work. Not completely sold? Stay with me for a minute! Consider how you approach planning your volunteer program strategy. Do you see a chain-link fence, or a wide-open field, full of possibilities? [...]
Member Spotlight: How One Volunteer Manager Leveled Up With These Volunteer Management Tools To celebrate our VolunteerPro members and their accomplishments, we are starting a Member Spotlight blog series! We invite you to follow along and learn how our members are taking action and getting traction with their volunteer management strategies! This month, I had the pleasure of [...]
Unlocking the Mystery of High-Impact Volunteer Performance When we struggle to inspire deep commitment, follow-through, and high levels of volunteer performance, we often assume that it’s all about finding the right people. That some people are productive, and others are not. And, that if we can just attract the right people, we will achieve a high functioning team that [...]
Our Top 10 Volunteer Management Blog Posts of 2020 If you're looking for a little inspiration, we've put together some of our fan-favorite volunteer management blog posts of the year. There's no doubt that 2020 has been a very … long … year. With so much going on in the world these past twelve months, [...]
How to Prevent Burnout - For Yourself and Your Volunteers If you’re like most volunteer program administrators, you “wear many hats.” The constant need to multi-task is a critical issue that needs a solution to prevent eventual burnout. But, given the current economic climate and budget shortfalls, it’s not likely that help is on the [...]
Walk the Talk: Bring Volunteers into Volunteer Services As a volunteer leader in your organization, you may be a department of just one. You may not even be able to call yourself a department. You may be working alone and be the sole person responsible for engaging volunteers. As a result, you may be [...]
