How to Conquer Recruiting Volunteers Using Personas When you think about recruiting volunteers, you need to imagine your ideal volunteer. What kind of work are they doing in your organization? How do they interact with you, your co-workers, other volunteers, your clients? What skills do they have? What values? How do they communicate? Just pause [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
