4 Fresh Volunteer Coordinator Tips to Start the New Year If you’re looking for a few solid volunteer coordinator tips to inspire you and getting you ready for the year ahead, we’ve got your covered. Every year seems to start out the same: you’re fired up about it, you’re pumped to grow your volunteer program [...]
Unlocking the Mystery of High-Impact Volunteer Performance When we struggle to inspire deep commitment, follow-through, and high levels of volunteer performance, we often assume that it’s all about finding the right people. That some people are productive, and others are not. And, that if we can just attract the right people, we will achieve a high functioning team that [...]
How to Prepare for and Negotiate Your Next Volunteer Management Job: A Complete Guide While the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, we are hearing more and more from members of our paid community and inside of our VolunteerPro Insiders Facebook group about volunteer management job loss. Leaders of volunteers aren’t the only nonprofit employee bearing the [...]
Your Ultimate Guide to the Training of Volunteers As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, you may be rethinking your plans for the training of volunteers. If you’re frustrated, discouraged, or feeling stalled, I want to reassure you that now may actually be the perfect time to design and build some impactful volunteer training so that [...]
How to Talk About Race & Volunteerism: Advice for Allies Over the past five years of Volunteer Management Progress Report surveys, we’ve cataloged an ever-present reality of the field of volunteer management – that our pool of professionals (at least here in the United States) is comprised primarily of White, educated women. This often prompts me [...]
Training Volunteers Online: How Your Nonprofit Can Keep Your Supporters Up to Speed In the past, training volunteers took place mostly in person, through in-person workshops and intensive bootcamps. But, with COVID-19 disease transmission rates still on the rise, nonprofits are seeking new ways to engage and upskill volunteers that can also keep them safe. [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: How to Build Resilience in Challenging Times To say that 2020 has been a challenging year would be the understatement of the century. The past six months have been fraught with difficulties, challenges, and issues, ranging from anxiety due to the pandemic, stress due to juggling multiple priorities, concern about [...]
Want to Up your Volunteer Management Game? These are the Volunteer Coordinator Skills You Should Focus On With the myriad of tasks associated with volunteer management, ensuring you cultivate the right volunteer coordinator skills can be quite the challenge. The Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration outlines seven core volunteer management competencies that their organization utilizes as the basis for their certification [...]
