How to Write Volunteer Surveys for Big Impact If you’re like most nonprofits, you probably send out annual volunteer surveys to gauge satisfaction. You may get a small number of responses, not every volunteer participates, and you wonder what you’re missing. You may be able to report volunteer satisfaction levels to leadership -- maybe [...]
September Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators Welcome to September, volunteer coordinators! Fresh starts abound as the air cools down (maybe?) and kids head back to school. For many of us, volunteer recruitment shifts into a new gear as families move back into familiar routines. For others, our eyes are already focused on the end [...]
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 [...]
This is How to Write the Perfect Volunteer Thank You Letter Volunteer coordinators are always looking for the perfect way to say thank you to their volunteers. We're on a constant search to adequately express our gratitude, so we turn to thanking volunteers through special gifts, plaques, or recognition dinners. But what if I told [...]
This is How to Ask Better Volunteer Survey Questions No matter what you need to learn about volunteers – their satisfaction, their impact on clients, their needs, or the reasons they leave – crafting the right volunteer survey questions can help you make smart management choices. What’s more, the data you gather will allow [...]
2 Things You Need to Build the Perfect Volunteer Team Volunteer teams, like all things related to leadership, require thoughtful planning and strategy. They require deliberate actions that, when you’re first starting your team, may feel awkward or forced. Though we often think of leadership as an inherited quality, it’s more often the sum [...]
July is winding down and for many here in the U.S., it's time to start thinking about kids going back to school. So what better time for volunteer coordinators to be thinking about engaging with youth volunteers? For some organizations and volunteer coordinators, engaging with younger volunteers can be a challenge. Just like any group, [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Online With Powerful Calls to Action Most volunteer managers know how to recruit volunteers online, but many are leaving talent on the table by not encouraging interested visitors to take the next step toward joining. The good news is that there are specific, proven things you can do to quickly level [...]
