Beyond Presentations - Effective Volunteer Training Ideas for Your Next Orientation Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of traction you’re getting from your volunteer training? It can sometimes feel like you're spinning your wheels. You spend valuable time developing something that you think will work. Volunteers come and enjoy it. But at [...]
January Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators Welcome to a New Year Volunteer Coordinators! The end of the year naturally brings on both reflection of the past and planning for the future. What did we do well with our volunteer program? What did we accomplish? What did we learn? What could we improve? What opportunities [...]
October Pro Roundup for Volunteer Coordinators Welcome to October, volunteer coordinators! It seems impossible, but in nonprofit world, this month our eyes are already turning toward the end of the year. Maybe you're refreshing your volunteer teams, building new volunteer leadership, or starting to think about your own personal development goals. As you continue to [...]
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 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 [...]
