Promoting Resilience Through Citywide Volunteer Engagement Strategies Volunteer engagement is a powerful strategy to strengthen communities and increase civic resilience; however, it is rarely seen as a key solution to community issues. Maybe it’s time to change that. What Keeps Communities Resilient? The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with Arup, developed The City Resilience Index based on [...]
5 Surprising Myths About Volunteers and Donors Are volunteers and donors different kinds of people? Do they deserve different investments or treatment at our nonprofits based on their “value” as supporters? Should we consider volunteers as donors and vice versa? When we think about how volunteers and donors are treated at our agencies, they’re often [...]
What Over 1500 Volunteer Managers are Saying About Our Field For the last four years, VolunteerPro has conducted an extensive survey of volunteer managers, coordinators, directors, and administrators from all over the world. In this year’s state-of-the-industry volunteer management survey, we set out to learn top challenges, job salaries and number of volunteers engaged compared [...]
Chinese New Year display a the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore If you haven’t heard, the voluntary sector in Singapore is on fire -- they’re in the midst of a full-scale effort to reach the ambitious goal of 70% volunteer participation across their citizenry. And, they’re already making headway. A few years ago, [...]
President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Representative John Lewis of Georgia (February 2010) | Lawrence Jackson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This post originally appeared in our weekly update [...]
When you think of what your agency’s volunteers will achieve this year, have you decided how you will measure volunteer impact? You’re probably already tracking volunteer hours, and perhaps even using the Independent Sector’s Value of Volunteer Time to calculate the equivalent in wages that volunteers contribute. This is certainly a start, but this [...]
In the past three years, over 3,000 leaders of volunteers in 18 countries have taken the annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey. Now in its fourth year, researchers have the opportunity to share new trends for professionals who lead, manage, and coordinate volunteers. If you work with volunteers, don’t miss your chance to participate in [...]
How to Assess Your Nonprofit's Digital Maturity As we find ourselves more and more firmly rooted in the digital age, it makes sense to consider a nonprofit technology assessment. These can help us see digital maturity levels in our volunteer programs. With rapidly evolving public preferences, there's clearly increased stress on nonprofits to compete. Without [...]
