Skilled volunteering certainly is a hot topic lately, and there are new resources to prove it. Volunteer Match just announced a new feature on their volunteer website, the Listing Wizard, and the professional networking website LinkedIn just added a “Volunteer Experience & Causes” section. Is your program ready to take advantage of the wealth of skills available in your community?
Volunteer Leadership: An Effective Model You Need to Know Now, more than ever, volunteer administrators are called upon to strengthen their volunteer leadership skills. The ability to inspire and influence is critical to a volunteer coordinator's success on the job. Whether they work with volunteers, community partners, executive management, or colleagues, a coordinator must have [...]
You Need Change? This is Why Volunteers Are Important As nonprofits continue to grow their community engagement strategies, there’s been a growing interest in why volunteers are important and measuring the impact of volunteers as human resources. For good reason. If you don’t understand the return you can expect, it’s a challenge to see where [...]
Melinda Gates’ recent talk on TED makes some interesting connections between how the Coke Corp reaches those in the developing world and how nonprofits can similarly connect with people in need. But can it really work? Do for-profit models make sense in a nonprofit world? Gates highlights three things that make sense.
Time+Talent: a Volunteer Management Podcast! Over at VolunteerPro, the digital arm of my business, we're teaming up with Jennifer Bennett at VolunteerMatch to launch a new volunteer management podcast. We want to share inspiring stories and interviews with bright spots in the field of volunteer administration. Stay tuned to hear from people who are shaking up the field with [...]
Is Research on Volunteerism Disappearing? Is volunteerism of interest to academics? Is current and relevant research on volunteerism available? The short answer is, yes. The long answer is a little more complicated. Because I often hear complaints about the lack of research in our field, I thought the issue might bear deeper examination. Here’s a brief [...]