Defining Your Strategy to Recruit Volunteers Successfully When thinking about how to recruit volunteers successfully, it is vital to review your current efforts, honestly assess how they’re working, and define an appropriate volunteer recruitment strategy that works for your organization. Strategy is often confused with tactics, and in the midst of all of your daily [...]
Pro RoundUp: A Year of VolunteerPro Member Spotlights (This is Why We Do What We Do!) Here at VolunteerPro, we’re honored to provide world-class training and resources to help volunteer-involving organizations around the world engage with their communities more effectively. Each month we feature one of these helpers in our VolunteerPro Member Spotlight, and today [...]
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: 3 Ideas to Recruit Volunteers (That You May Not Have Considered) Volunteer recruitment is always the top priority mentioned by leaders of volunteers in our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, both as a challenge and as the top goal for the coming year. We know how important it is to recruit volunteers, [...]
Pro RoundUp: 150 Creative Volunteer Titles & Ideas for New Volunteer Roles In our most recent Volunteer Management Progress Report, many respondents shared a common concern. These leaders of volunteers were happy to see a strong return of willing volunteers to their organizations; however, due to pandemic-related shutdowns, layoffs, and reductions in services, these organizations [...]
Diversity and Inclusion in Volunteer Opportunities: What’s the Role of Volunteer Managers? While many people are interested in promoting and championing diversity and inclusion in volunteer opportunities, my sense is that many people feel overwhelmed with the idea of actually pulling it off. On a personal level, they feel worried or confused about how to [...]
Recruitment for Volunteers - What it Takes in 2023 Recruitment for volunteers is a perennial struggle for nonprofits. In our most recent Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, one-third (33%) of volunteer managers reported volunteer recruitment as their top challenge. In the past eight years of our research, recruitment has dominated the open-ended responses to our [...]
How to Boost Volunteer Recruitment with These Outcome Metrics As joyful and rewarding as nonprofit work can be, the standard workday for many also often includes long hours, constant interruptions, and a million pressing tasks that seem to eat away at your staff’s precious time. Too often, this is because organizations do not have [...]
