Successful Recruitment = Successful Marketing Happy Almost Valentine’s Day! At the beginning of this month, we released our Volunteer Management Progress Report. As in years past, recruitment is at the top of your biggest challenges list with 33% of you stating it as an obstacle to success. One of the keys to successful recruitment in [...]
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 [...]
2 Things You Need to Build the Perfect Volunteer Team Volunteer teams, like all things related to leadership, require thoughtful planning and strategy. They require deliberate actions that, when you’re first starting your team, may feel awkward or forced. Though we often think of leadership as an inherited quality, it’s more often the sum [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Online With Powerful Calls to Action Most volunteer managers know how to recruit volunteers online, but many are leaving talent on the table by not encouraging interested visitors to take the next step toward joining. The good news is that there are specific, proven things you can do to quickly level [...]
How to Write Better Volunteer Recruitment Messaging As a volunteer coordinator, chances are you didn’t get into your profession because you wanted to do marketing. And yet, as you scan your project and the volunteer needs your organization has, you find yourself recruiting, recruiting, recruiting. We feel you. Volunteer recruitment can seem like a [...]
How to Write Powerful, Targeted Volunteer Recruitment Ads Many moons ago, when I was a high school junior, my English Composition teacher required us to include four points at the top of every paper we submitted. They were: name, date, purpose, audience. Even then, I was being prepared to write volunteer recruitment ads. By that [...]
As a leader of volunteers, risk management is a big part of your job. So, you want to make sure you get volunteer background check requirements right. Read on to correct three mistakes you might be making. Why Conduct Background Checks on Volunteers? According to the Verified Volunteers Screening Trends & Best Practices Report: [...]
If you’ve worked with event volunteers, you’ve no doubt experienced this at one time or another. You’ve spent countless hours and all of your energy planning an awesome event. You need volunteers to staff it; in fact, they are a critical part of its success. So, you reach out to several groups to help you [...]
