I often write about how organizations can improve their volunteer programs from the perspective of an experienced nonprofit consultant. Today, I thought I’d write from a different angle and explore my current volunteer experience in order to better understand why it works. And, I’ll suggest some key takeaways for volunteer-led organizations.
The Best Ways to Advocate for Volunteer Administration When people ask me what I do, I tell them I work in the world of volunteerism, helping a niche of a niche of a niche of a niche. In other words -- a niche (organizations) of a niche (charities) of a [...]
Results of the Pathways to Participation study has just been released. In addition to analyzing what stimulates civic engagement, the study also points to organizational issues that can affect supporter retention. Fortunately, they are issues you can address directly.
Volunteer Handbooks (also called Manuals, Guides, etc.) are a key foundational risk management strategy. They are also an important part of the talent management of your volunteer corps.
Attracting and retaining the right talent requires that you develop a strategic, versus tactical, approach. Which are you using as your primary volunteer recrtuiment approach?
5 No Good Mindsets That Block Nonprofit Talent Management and How to Beat Them! When you think of the term “nonprofit talent,” what comes to mind? Is it leadership, your executive director or CEO, your board? Is it your program directors, managers, or your front-line staff? Is it your human resources department? Do you [...]
Nonprofit Leadership and Management: How to Modernize Now Developing best-in-class nonprofit leadership and management skills may, at first glance, seem like an easy thing to do. Leadership development may seem like something that just “happens on its own,” without any support. Or, maybe you subscribe to the “born this way” philosophy. You believe that [...]
This is How to Create a Successful Volunteer Engagement Strategy I often get asked what a complete nonprofit volunteer engagement strategy looks like. What are the pieces? What's really necessary to get results? How should staffing be structured? How can we pull everything together into a cohesive whole everyone can understand? So, this [...]
As promised in a recent post I’m sharing more thoughts on nonprofit leadership. Today’s post is based on my reading of Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership Into Practice, a Nonprofit Quarterly article. It offers a nice overview of the key ingredients needed to bring about collaborative leadership that in turn results in enhanced nonprofit capacity.
Our Top Volunteer Management Best Practice for the Year Ahead With 2022 (and maybe an end to COVID) just around the corner, which volunteer management best practices will you focus on? While it feels like there’s no end in sight to the current pandemic, there will, indeed, come an end to the endless lockdowns [...]