Your Complete Guide to Word-of-Mouth for Superior Volunteer Recruitment When I start working with Volunteer Recruitment Accelerator clients, I always ask about their current volunteer recruitment strategies and what’s working now. When developing a new strategy, it’s important to not throw the baby out with the bath water. And it’s smart to double down on [...]
Recruitment for Volunteers - What it Takes in 2023 Recruitment for volunteers is a perennial struggle for nonprofits. In our most recent Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, one-third (33%) of volunteer managers reported volunteer recruitment as their top challenge. In the past eight years of our research, recruitment has dominated the open-ended responses to our [...]
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 [...]
How to Build a Strategic Volunteer Engagement Plan (and Why You Should!) Every week, I hear from volunteer managers who are struggling to build (or rebuild) a strategic volunteer engagement plan for their organizations. After all the recent disruption in the sector, they’ve come to realize that a fresh look is both important and necessary [...]
Volunteer Screening: How to Strengthen Bonds from First Touch Many leaders of volunteers think of volunteer screening primarily as a risk management strategy or as a way to keep unsuitable people out of your organization. While that may be partially true, I think it’s time we went beyond treating volunteers as people we might meet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What I Learned From 10 Wonderful Years in Nonprofit Consulting This month marks my tenth anniversary as a business owner in the field of nonprofit consulting and training. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. A decade! To be clear … When I started my business, I really had no clue what I was [...]
