Member Spotlight: How Cultivating the Right Volunteer Leadership Skills Can Scale Your Volunteer Program’s Impact Welcome back to another member spotlight, where we feature some of the ups and the downs and everything in between of what it’s really like to work as a leader of volunteers. Follow along and learn how our members [...]
How to Overcome Nonprofit Savior Complex and Emerge Victorious Is a nonprofit savior complex eroding your ability to get things done? Contrary to what you might read about or see in the Marvel Universe, superheroes are not real. But I would venture to say that we have a real-life equivalent in the form of volunteer managers! Unfortunately, [...]
Spring Cleaning: How to Refresh Your Volunteer Program Documents If you are like me, the return of warmer weather (at least in the northern parts of this world!) has you opening your windows wide, blasting 90’s pop hits (is that just me?!), and dusting off the cobwebs that have accumulated over the last year. [...]
As a Volunteer Manager, What Is Your Role in Nonprofit Crisis Communications? It’s highly likely that your nonprofit crisis communications plan doesn’t consider aspects affecting the volunteer program, so it’s vitally important that you consider how you will communicate with your volunteers when something goes wrong. Ahem, a global pandemic, social unrest, natural disasters, [...]
Why You Should Celebrate Black History Month with Your Volunteers As leaders in the volunteer engagement field, the team at VolunteerPro is committed to being champions for more inclusive volunteerism. In this blog post, we aim to inspire volunteer leaders to look at their own organization and see if their volunteers represent the community they serve AND give ideas [...]
Nonprofit Leadership: How to Embrace Failure for Success It’s funny. In the private sector, it is common to hear about failure, but we don’t hear much about it in nonprofit leadership circles. The world is filled with stories about scrappy entrepreneurs who toiled, even went bankrupt multiple times, before they finally hit it big. In fact, [...]
Quotes for Volunteerism That’ll Motivate and Inspire Action When you need a dose of inspiration for affirmation that your work matters, reading quotes for volunteerism is a good place to start. In addition, words have power to motivate people to act and to grow, so by sharing words of wisdom with your volunteers you can [...]
Tips for Volunteer Managers: Learn How to Manage Your To-Do List If you are a volunteer manager, you likely wear multiple hats on the job, and that can leave you feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. We are here to help with tips for volunteer managers on managing and organizing your to-do list. No matter how many fancy [...]
