Preparing Co-Workers to Lead Volunteers Online & On Land Many nonprofit staff are unprepared, and therefore reluctant, to assume the responsibility to lead volunteers. They are often resistant to engaging volunteers in their departments and, even when they do, it’s not always smooth sailing. But you understand what they don’t - that your volunteer corps [...]
101 Quotes for Volunteers: Inspire Your Team to Reach for the Stars Looking for quotes for volunteers? You've come to the right place! We’ve curated some for the best quotes around to inspire current and future volunteers at your charity, cause, association, membership, agency, department, or movement. Inspirational quotes can be used almost everywhere to [...]
Our Top 5 Time-Saving Tips for Volunteer Managers – How to Do More with Less We are often asked about time saving tips for volunteer managers, and it’s no surprise. The job of a leader of volunteers is multi-faceted and challenging. Leaders of volunteers are responsible for program design, evaluation, recruitment and marketing, supervision and communications, training [...]
How to Build Better Nonprofit Partnerships If the thought of building nonprofit partnerships in your community leaves you in a cold sweat, you’re not alone. For some of us, the idea of cold calling complete strangers -- however beneficial they may be to our efforts -- ties our stomachs in knots. I’m one of those [...]
Key Insights from 5 Years of Volunteer Management Research In January 2016, we launched our first global "state of the volunteer industry" report. Now the longest running volunteer management research p[project on the planet. Our chief aim was to gather and share information related to the infrastructure, practices, challenges, and needs of leaders of volunteers around [...]
What Every Volunteer Manager Needs to Know: A Lesson in Leadership As a volunteer manager, you are often stuck in middle management and all of the challenges that entail. Not always the best place to be. But let’s close our eyes for a moment for a little thought experiment (OK technically, you need your eyes open to [...]
Create An Easy Volunteer Engagement Strategy in 6 Steps Inside of our VolunteerPro Premium Membership community, we are in month three of our Total Transformation Series. This seminar series is specifically designed to help our members become a better “architect of the volunteer experience” and build a volunteer engagement strategy that generates real impact. Through the Total Transformation [...]
July Pro Roundup: Using Volunteer Testimonials as Social Proof Sharing volunteer testimonials is one of the most powerful ways to tap the benefits of social proof in your recruitment efforts. If you’re not familiar with the term, “Social Proof” is a psychological concept that says, when faced with uncertainty, people have a tendency to look [...]
