Diversity and Inclusion in Volunteer Opportunities: What’s the Role of Volunteer Managers? While many people are interested in promoting and championing diversity and inclusion in volunteer opportunities, my sense is that many people feel overwhelmed with the idea of actually pulling it off. On a personal level, they feel worried or confused about how to [...]
How to Boost Volunteer Recruitment with These Outcome Metrics As joyful and rewarding as nonprofit work can be, the standard workday for many also often includes long hours, constant interruptions, and a million pressing tasks that seem to eat away at your staff’s precious time. Too often, this is because organizations do not have [...]
Share Your Program's ROI with a Volunteer Impact Portfolio It’s no secret that volunteer services departments suffer from an often stunning lack of adequate resources, and the perennial question is always, "How do we get more money?" One way to encourage deeper support is to routinely and concretely show how the resources were used effectively [...]
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 Build Better Nonprofit Partnerships If the thought of building nonprofit partnerships in your community leaves you in a cold sweat, you’re not alone. For some of us, the idea of cold calling complete strangers -- however beneficial they may be to our efforts -- ties our stomachs in knots. I’m one of those [...]
Key Insights from 5 Years of Volunteer Management Research In January 2016, we launched our first global "state of the volunteer industry" report. Now the longest running volunteer management research p[project on the planet. Our chief aim was to gather and share information related to the infrastructure, practices, challenges, and needs of leaders of volunteers around [...]
What Every Volunteer Manager Needs to Know: A Lesson in Leadership As a volunteer manager, you are often stuck in middle management and all of the challenges that entail. Not always the best place to be. But let’s close our eyes for a moment for a little thought experiment (OK technically, you need your eyes open to [...]
10 Free, Last Minute Ways to Celebrate National Volunteer Week This year’s National Volunteer Week starts in two days! The theme is Celebrate Service. In the hustle and bustle of new-year strategic planning and onboarding new recruits, you may not have had time to think about National Volunteer Week. That’s why we’re here, two days [...]
