5 Key Factors in Creating a Program That Will Attract Volunteers You’ve probably tried multiple strategies to attract volunteers. To maintain a steady pipeline of volunteer talent, we’ve also suggested a number of effective recruitment methods, improvements for your recruitment page, and ways to gain traction with your messaging. And when you are [...]
Volunteers and the Law: Legal Considerations for Your Nonprofit Many organizations are either unclear or unaware of how volunteers and the law intersect. This post walks you through all of the details. One caveat, though. While this post offers up general guidelines and source references, it is not intended to be legal advice. When creating or updating policies that concern volunteers and [...]
Volunteering During COVID-19: 14 Ways Volunteers Can Help with Relief and Recovery The global pandemic has been persistently pulling at the social structures and everyday lives of citizens around the world. Volunteering during COVID-19 is just one of those social structures that has witnessed a downturn. However, with the rollout of vaccines, there is hope [...]
What Nine Days on a Boat Taught Me About Volunteer Team Development and Being a Leader Volunteer team development can be tricky – we want our volunteers and employees to work in harmony. But how do we pull it off? Sometimes, it’s by reflecting on our own experiences. I was both privileged and pushed [...]
Do Volunteers Have a Role in Capacity Building for a Nonprofit Organization? Capacity building for a nonprofit organization is defined as engaging in activities and developing processes that strengthen an organization’s ability to fulfill its mission. Activities might include strategic planning, updating communications strategies, technology upgrades, operational improvements, board development, and improving community and volunteer [...]
Fun Volunteer Teambuilding Activities That Will Keep Your Remote Team Engaged Many hands make light work, and multi-talented volunteers, working in independent teams, are simply unstoppable. But how do you make it all work so that you’re not stuck leading? How do you delegate essential tasks to teams and trust that things will get [...]
The Power of Intergenerational Volunteer Programs to Build Strong Communities In addition to satisfying the psychological needs of participants and achieving the goals of nonprofit organizations, there are benefits to the community at large from intergenerational volunteer programs. Intergenerational programs bring children and older adults together, with opportunities to interact and create relationships for [...]
3 Simple Strategies to Reduce Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Turnover Are you wondering how to build a better volunteer onboarding and retention strategy that will reduce your volunteer turnover rate? Well, you are not alone! We just had over 1,400 volunteer leaders attend a training with us on this very topic. Did [...]
The Value of Volunteerism: 5 Real Life Measures That Truly Count According to research, there has been intense debate over whether and how to calculate the economic value of volunteerism, ever since the notion of assigning it economic value began in the 1960s. Some have argued against quantification, citing the “statistical [...]
Prep for Post-COVID With This Step-by-Step Volunteer Program Evaluation It seems that the past year has been full of pivots, with nonprofits and nonprofit staff continually reacting to the threat of COVID-19. And, if you are like many of the other organizations out there, you’ve likely had to significantly reduce [...]