Member Spotlight: One Member’s Creative Recruitment Ideas To Grow Program Capacity In this month’s VolunteerPro Member Spotlight, we’re joined by Christine Small, Program Manager of the Friends Groups and Volunteer Program for Florida State Parks. Christine shares the important work that volunteers are doing every day in state parks across Florida, how a small but [...]
Member Spotlight: Starting a Nonprofit to Support Middle School Extracurriculars In this month’s Member Spotlight, we sit down with VolunteerPro Member Amber Lancaster, founder of Start1Spark, who shares about her experience starting a new nonprofit in the middle of a global pandemic and what inspired her to take the leap. How Pandemic Shutdowns Highlighted Economic [...]
Member Spotlight: Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Volunteer Service This month, we sit down with VolunteerPro member Saskia Rinkoff to discuss some fresh ways her organization is embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion through “Sight Guide” volunteers, and how those efforts are making the arts more accessible to a larger audience. Chelsey: Hi Saskia! Tell me [...]
Member Spotlight: Matching Volunteer Roles And Creating The Perfect Fit for Every Volunteer Placing volunteers can be a lot like matchmaking, and finding the right fit for both the organization and volunteer is critical for long-term success. At Humane Fort Wayne, they are taking matchmaking to another level by connecting with volunteer passions from day one. [...]
Member Spotlight: Sweat Equity & Service Learning When thinking about college spring break, a beach party might be the first thing that comes to mind. However, for college and university students across the country that have partnered with (HFHI) Habitat for Humanity International, those scholars are thinking about an alternative spring break, a "Sweat Break" [...]
Member Spotlight: Focusing on Community & Team By engaging volunteers and asking key questions, Amanda Maragos, MHCM, CVRM, Director of Client Services and Volunteer Programs and her team at Phillip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care and Emily’s House Children’s Hospice have built a community that retains volunteers who are mobilized to serve. Amanda is joined [...]
Member Spotlight: Designing an Extraordinary Guest Experience by Empowering Your Volunteers What would it look like if volunteers had the power to design a magical guest experience at your organization? Ashley Rieser, Director of Volunteer Services & Front of House Guest Experience is helping volunteers create a lasting love of the arts at Pittsburgh Cultural [...]
Blazing a Trail for Virtual Volunteer Opportunites Who is at the heart of all wishes granted through the chapters of Make-A-Wish® America? The volunteers! For this month’s VolPro Member Spotlight, we are chatting with Lisa Brinkerhoff, CVA, CNP, the Director, Volunteer Engagement at Make-A-Wish® America, about how volunteers continue to pivot, finding new ways to connect [...]
