January Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators Welcome to a New Year Volunteer Coordinators! The end of the year naturally brings on both reflection of the past and planning for the future. What did we do well with our volunteer program? What did we accomplish? What did we learn? What could we improve? What opportunities [...]
How to Build a Powerful Nonprofit Leadership Philosophy If you’re ready to take your skills up a notch, consider taking a few moments to craft a nonprofit leadership philosophy for the coming year. Often we take our leadership approach for granted. After all, we know what we believe, right? But, what about our followers [...]
One Simple Goal-Setting Strategy Busy Volunteer Managers Will Love Over the past four weeks we’ve been sharing planning strategies and tools to help volunteer managers and volunteer coordinators get a jump start building their strategy. In this mini-series for leaders of volunteers, we’ve shared how to map out your roles for volunteers and how [...]
How to Plot Your Volunteer Roles Like a Champion If you are a leader of volunteers, the fastest way to get a jump on each year is to plot out your agency’s volunteer roles for the coming year. Proactively. Ahead of time. That is, BEFORE they are needed. This goes for everyone, but is particularly [...]
1 Really Big Way to Gain Respect for Volunteer Services When seeking respect and understanding for the important role of volunteer services, it’s critical that you first are able to speak the language of the rest of your organization. What language is that? What’s the overarching language of nonprofits and public sector organizations? The [...]
25 Ways to Kill Procrastination for Volunteer Coordinators We all want to follow volunteer management best practices. But, most volunteer coordinators have a million and one urgent things that get in the way of planning for the future and getting important tasks done. You have agency roles that need filled, partnership meetings that need [...]
Your Mindset is Your #1 Volunteer Management Superpower We've put together a free mini-series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to help you develop your best volunteer program ever. Each focuses on a different volunteer management skills and comes with a free tool to help you master it. First off, we're starting with your mindset, which [...]
How to Master Effective Delegation in Volunteer Management Effective delegation is one of the beautiful, but potentially challenging aspects of building a strong volunteer team. As a leader with a trained and stable group of volunteers, your job as the volunteer manager can evolve to entrusting roles to your volunteers versus doing everything yourself. The [...]
