Volunteer Recruitment Strategies That Work: Behind the Scenes of Our New Coaching Program When it comes to volunteer recruitment strategies, many nonprofits spin their wheels to find a solution that actually works. In fact, year after year, volunteer recruitment is noted as one of the top three challenges for volunteer-involving organizations in our annual industry survey. [...]
Coordinating Volunteers in 2022: Five Smart Choices for Unlimited Growth Coordinating volunteers in 2022 - what's changed? Where should you focus your energy for the best results? What should you stop doing? What should you keep doing? In this post, I share my top predictions and strategies that make the most sense for volunteer coordinators in [...]
Our 7 Top Volunteer Management Trends for 2022 Wondering which volunteer management trends you need to prepare for in 2022? We’ve got you covered! Each year, we review what we see as the top trends to help nonprofits and volunteer-driven organizations make decisions about their strategy and how to deploy resources most effectively. Through [...]
How to Secure Funding for Your Volunteer Programs We often get questions about where to find grant funding for volunteer programs. After all, while volunteers may work for “free,” engaging and supporting them is not. Despite this reality, grant funding that is directly earmarked for volunteer services is uncommon. With the notable exceptions of the Leighty Foundation and [...]
How to Build a Volunteer Program Continuous Improvement Process It’s no secret that volunteer services departments suffer from an often stunning lack of adequate resources, but by practicing volunteer program continuous improvement you can begin to generate the respect and resources necessary for success. Our Volunteer Management Progress Report survey found that about one-third (31%) [...]
How to Forge Stronger Bonds with Remote & Hybrid Volunteers Hybrid volunteers – or volunteers contribute time to nonprofits both online and in person – can be invaluable assets to a nonprofit. They can bring special skills and talent to the table that a nonprofit might otherwise not have available or would need to pay a [...]
Volunteer Engagement Tips From Our Top 10 Blogs of All Time Can you believe we’ve been running this volunteer engagement blog for over SIX years!? We’ve been writing content week after week that offers support, insight, resources and more to leaders of volunteers. And, it's been a labor of love. But soon, it will be time [...]
How to Give Meaningful Volunteer Gifts that Volunteers Will Love If you’re like most organizations that rely on volunteers, you naturally want to show your gratitude with small volunteer gifts or tokens of appreciation. But, do the volunteers really use what you give them? Do they value these gifts, or do they just end [...]
Volunteer Teamwork for Better Results Looking to improve volunteer teamwork with staff to get things done? There may be something to learn from others who are crossing traditional boundaries in service of better outcomes. In healthcare, for example, traditional professional boundaries are being challenged. Interdisciplinary teams, made up of professionals from a variety of [...]
Why not integrate volunteer workplace wellness programs into our volunteer recognition and retention strategies?