Nonprofit Emergency Plans: What You Need to Know When the unexpected strikes, nonprofit emergency plans can prepare volunteer organizations and programs to respond appropriately. The complete and continued devastation caused by the wildfires in Australia, as well as other locales in recent years, has many of us asking — are we ready, even for what [...]
This is How to Empower Your Volunteer Background Checks As a leader and advocate for volunteer involvement at your agency, you may feel conflicted about conducting volunteer background checks. After all, volunteers work for free, don’t they? Can we really expect this from them? What does it say about our level of trust? Nothing’s happened [...]
The Best Ways to Advocate for Volunteer Administration in Just 15 Minutes Last week, I pointed to some pretty troubling trends in the field of volunteer administration. This week, I’d like to focus on what we can do about it. Each year the responses to our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey paint a grim picture [...]
Beware of These 6 Trends Lurking in Your Volunteer Program Over the past four years, we’ve collected a significant amount of data on how business is conducted with the volunteer program. Over 5,000 leaders of volunteers in 18 countries have taken our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey and we’ve all learned so much about [...]
Volunteer UX: The #1 Key to Deeper Engagement If you’re looking for the key to better retention and deeper volunteer engagement, it won’t be found through some outside source or “miracle cure.” It won’t be solved by a better policy or procedure (although these can help). Nor, will it be because you added one more [...]
How to Show Volunteers are Priceless with an Impact Portfolio Much as corporate shareholders seek positive growth in their financial portfolios, volunteers and donors want to see their investment in good causes reap rewards in the form of a social return on investment, or volunteer ROI. You know your volunteers are priceless. With an [...]
How to Convince Your Boss to Approve Your Resource Requests If your requests for approval for volunteer resources have been shot down by your boss, you no doubt understand how deflating it can be and how it can tank your motivation. Believe me, I’ve been there. I’ve even experienced this in well-funded environments where [...]
5 Smart Nonprofit Investments That Pay Off Big Time If your organization is short on time or money, then making strategic nonprofit investments in your volunteer approach makes a lot of sense. Successful volunteer engagement is all about choices in your management and leadership direction. After all, why waste time spinning your wheels on [...]
