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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Write Better Volunteer Recruitment Messaging As a volunteer coordinator, chances are you didn’t get into your profession because you wanted to do marketing. And yet, as you scan your project and the volunteer needs your organization has, you find yourself recruiting, recruiting, recruiting. We feel you. Volunteer recruitment can seem like a [...]
How to Write Powerful, Targeted Volunteer Recruitment Ads Many moons ago, when I was a high school junior, my English Composition teacher required us to include four points at the top of every paper we submitted. They were: name, date, purpose, audience. Even then, I was being prepared to write volunteer recruitment ads. By 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 [...]
