How to Restore Healthy Boundaries for Volunteer Coordinators To preface any discussion about healthy boundaries, especially in volunteer management, it’s important to start by talking about the line that should never be gray, and never be crossed. There are a few things to which your work and boss are not entitled. Your health, family, sanity, [...]
Volunteer Coordination and Time Management (not an oxymoron) For as long as there has been volunteer coordination, there has been multitasking. And for as long as there have been volunteer coordination challenges, there have been questions of prioritization. In budget-limited organizations, we all get called upon to wear multiple hats with the assumption (requirement?) that [...]
Do You Make These Community Partnership Development Mistakes? If you’re new to developing community partnerships or just don’t seem to be getting the results or follow through you expect from your partners, you may be unwittingly making common community partnership development mistakes. Here’s a rundown of the 10 most common sticking points to avoid. The [...]
How to Advocate for Your Nonprofit Budget for Volunteers When you think about increasing your nonprofit budget for your volunteer program, do you see a chain link fence or a wide open field? What you see may impact what you are able to achieve. As industrialist Henry Ford noted, “Whether you think you can, [...]
As a leader of volunteers, risk management is a big part of your job. So, you want to make sure you get volunteer background check requirements right. Read on to correct three mistakes you might be making. Why Conduct Background Checks on Volunteers? According to the Verified Volunteers Screening Trends & Best Practices Report: [...]
How to Use Nonprofit Technology to Cultivate Trust The world is experiencing emerging distrust in all institutions that is spilling over into skepticism around causes and charities. Nonprofit technology may be a way to refill the nearly empty well. The Edelman Trust Barometer report offers some bad news for nonprofits and government agencies that engage volunteers. [...]
Yes, You Can Actually Learn How to Let a Volunteer Go Volunteer management isn’t easy. As leaders of volunteers, you are often responsible for a wide range of duties. You manage schedules and manage feelings (of your volunteers, your co-workers, and yourself). It can be exhausting. There’s one simple thing you can do to lighten [...]
The Pro Round Up: Advocating for Volunteer Resource Management Happy Friday! We've put together a list of some of the best content for volunteer resource management advocation from the past couple of weeks. First, we released our third-annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey this week! Take the survey now (it takes less than 15 minutes) to [...]
