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 [...]
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 2025 – Your VisionWeek FAQs If you’re planning for strategic volunteer engagement in 2025, 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 [...]
Volunteer Engagement Strategy Versus Tactics for 2023 Strategy versus tactics – what’s driving your volunteer engagement plan for 2023? If you are directly responsible for recruiting and retaining committed volunteers – or are an executive who wants to grow volunteer impact at your organization – now’s the time to come up with your plan for [...]
How to Build a Strategic Volunteer Engagement Plan (and Why You Should!) Every week, I hear from volunteer managers who are struggling to build (or rebuild) a strategic volunteer engagement plan for their organizations. After all the recent disruption in the sector, they’ve come to realize that a fresh look is both important and necessary [...]
Blazing a Trail for Virtual Volunteer Opportunites Who is at the heart of all wishes granted through the chapters of Make-A-Wish® America? The volunteers! For this month’s VolPro Member Spotlight, we are chatting with Lisa Brinkerhoff, CVA, CNP, the Director, Volunteer Engagement at Make-A-Wish® America, about how volunteers continue to pivot, finding new ways to connect [...]
Volunteer Encouragement On & Off the Field There is something special at Special Olympics Arizona, and that is the encouragement that Heather Turkes, CVA shares with everyone around her. From the athletes to her colleagues, we can see her joy and passion for volunteerism and inclusion. Our VolunteerPro Community Manager, Chelsey, was able to catch [...]
Your Next Volunteer Recruitment Flyer: What to Include We often get questions about what to include on a volunteer recruitment flyer. Sometimes I feel that the assumption behind the question is that flyers and brochures can do the heavy lifting of recruitment. In other words, “If I can just get this right, miracles will happen.” [...]
