How to Conquer Recruiting Volunteers Using Personas When you think about recruiting volunteers, you need to imagine your ideal volunteer. What kind of work are they doing in your organization? How do they interact with you, your co-workers, other volunteers, your clients? What skills do they have? What values? How do they communicate? Just pause [...]
4 Strategies to Help You Make Better Volunteer Placements Learning to match volunteers isn't rocket science, but it does take a little forethought. You need to know what you are specifically looking for and find out what each volunteer has to offer. Luckily, we have four strategies to share with you that can help you [...]
3 Volunteer Recruitment Strategies That Will Attract Your Ideal Volunteers Volunteer recruitment strategies are a dime a dozen. But which ones really work to bring in the volunteer you really need? And is there a magic wand that can make it all happen? No doubt you’ve heard the phrase “If you build it, they will come”, a [...]
June Pro Roundup: Beach Reads That Will Enhance Your Volunteer Management Practices & Leadership Chops Who knew your summer reading could also strengthen your leadership skills and boost your volunteer management practices? No, not with boring texts, with inspired reads that can help us all become a better version of ourselves. In my part [...]
Gain Traction with an Irresistible 3-Step Communication Strategy Recently, Tobi and I took part in a three-day intensive communications strategy coaching program (coaches need coaches!). While the motivation to attend was to strengthen our organization's overall communication strategy, the real golden nuggets of value turned out to be takeaways that are applicable for the work [...]
Recruitment Messaging: Crafting Your Most Successful Call for Volunteers Yet! Compelling messaging is essential when your organization is ready to call for volunteers. You want to attract the right people, who are excited about working in support of your program or good cause. Often, the candidates you’re wanting to recruit are busy people, which makes [...]
7+ Ways to Improve the "Curb Appeal" of Your Volunteer Recruitment Page Your volunteer recruitment page is one of the most important pages on your organization’s website. It is the page where you’re sending all potential volunteer candidates via your blog, emails, newsletters, and social media posts. You want it to be a virtual welcome mat, rolled [...]
Write a Volunteer Position Description that Boosts Recruitment Your agency’s volunteer position descriptions are important tools for communications, accountability, and recruitment. Not only do they attract the right people to your organization, but once they are there a well-written volunteer position description can map out responsibilities, expectations, and boundaries. Here’s the thing, though. The typical volunteer [...]
