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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Volunteers are Important Right Now. Why? Two Words: Nonprofit Sustainability Last weekend, I was reviewing some interesting research on nonprofit executives and the challenges that they face. I realized that healthy volunteer involvement could help solve many of the key issues that plague leaders. Why are Volunteers Important? Some Leaders Still Don’t Know Although the value of volunteers [...]
Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators: Resources to Help You Manage Volunteers During the Coronavirus Pandemic The global COVID-19 virus outbreak has reached pandemic proportions and has been persistently pulling at the social structures and everyday lives of citizens around the world. The coronavirus pandemic is impacting volunteerism, too. VolunteerPro has been keeping it’s community members and the [...]
My Top Nonprofit Webinar Advice from a Decade Online I remember about 10 years ago when I first started presenting nonprofit webinars. It was brutal. I had just started my consulting practice and had been hired by a national technical assistance center to provide regular online workshops to their network. I wasn’t new to training. In fact, one of [...]
