Hiring? Essential Volunteer Coordinator Skills You Need for 2021 What are the essential volunteer coordinator skills for 2021? For today's world? Not last year or 10 years ago. For now? When I train nonprofit staff, I often get asked - what's the most important skill a volunteer manager needs to [...]
Recruit Volunteers Online: Find Your Next 20 COVID Superheroes with Smarter Strategy With the upswing in virtual volunteering and remote volunteer roles, many nonprofits are wondering how they can better recruit volunteers online. The “build it and they will come” strategy just doesn’t seem to be working anymore. We put up a webpage, post on some sites ... [...]
In 2013 I was awarded my CVA credential. Investing in my professional development and keeping my skills on point seemed to make sense. Here are some reasons why it may make sense for you, too.
If you're thinking about offering volunteer stipends, or allowing employees to volunteer, be sure you understand how labor laws might affect you. Here is a brief run down.
How to Recruit Volunteers by Speaking to the “Old Brain” For years now, I’ve been fascinated with how to recruit volunteers by harnessing how we humans actually function. In other words, how we are motivated to make decisions and are persuaded to act. I call it “working with human nature, not against it.” And it [...]
Crush Your Next Recognition Speech with These Volunteer Appreciation Quotes So, you’ve been asked to deliver remarks at your next volunteer recognition event and you're on the search for some decent volunteer appreciation quotes. Good news! Or you've got a pile of blank thank you notes on your desk and you’re running out [...]
Volunteer Generation Fund Grants May Be Available in Your State Finding funding to directly support volunteer services is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but help is on the way – Volunteer Generation Fund grants are now being announced for the 2021 fiscal year. This funding is a [...]
Your Exclusive Checklist for Strategic Volunteer Engagement Planning Many volunteer managers in the VolunteerPro Premium Membership community are struggling with how they can build strategic volunteer engagement that is better than ever before. After more than a year of unrest in our communities due to COVID-19, social injustice, severe weather, etc., they come to realize [...]
How to Write Volunteer Recruitment Messaging That Converts As a nonprofit leader, chances are you didn’t get into your profession because you wanted to do sales and marketing. You signed on because you believed in your cause and wanted to make a real dent in the universe. Little did you know that [...]
Use a Volunteer Manager Interview Guide to Easily Hire the Best Leadership Candidate Is your nonprofit hiring for your volunteer services department? If you develop a volunteer manager interview guide, you’ll have a process for the way in which you conduct your interviews and identify quality candidates, With [...]