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 [...]
16 Wise Questions to Ask Volunteers to Encourage Deep Commitment Throughout the recruitment and screening process, there are helpful questions to ask volunteers that can both decide whether a volunteer is a good match and set them up for a successful experience. The questions to ask volunteers listed below can be asked at outreach events, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feeling Stuck? Help Your Team Pivot to a Growth Mindset The concept of a growth mindset isn’t new but applying it specifically to nonprofits and volunteer engagement might be. In this post, we explore how to help volunteers and the co-workers who lead them to ditch the fixed mindsets that are holding them back and [...]
Member Spotlight: Sweat Equity & Service Learning When thinking about college spring break, a beach party might be the first thing that comes to mind. However, for college and university students across the country that have partnered with (HFHI) Habitat for Humanity International, those scholars are thinking about an alternative spring break, a "Sweat Break" [...]
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 [...]
