The Importance of Volunteer Pulse Surveys While volunteer pulse surveys are relatively new, in the corporate world these kinds of surveys are a common tool when it comes to employee engagement. And, while they have not really been used very much in the volunteer space they can be particularly valuable, especially during the current [...]
Why We’re Changing the VolunteerPro Membership Platform At VolunteerPro, our team has been quite busy over the past couple of months planning and building a brand-new platform for our Premium Membership Community experience. For over five years, VolunteerPro has offered our Premium Community Membership to an exclusive group of [...]
Volunteer Waivers: Should You, or Shouldn’t You? Whether or not to use volunteer waivers is a popular topic cropping up in our VolunteerPro Insiders group on Facebook, especially as we all continue to navigate through COVID-19 and the pandemic. I’d like to address in this article what kinds of things should we be asking [...]
How to Make Volunteer Newsletters More Interesting During our weekly coaching call last Friday, I received a few questions about starting and maintaining volunteer email newsletters that are interesting to read. So, this week’s blog focuses on how to put together an engaging and sustainable email newsletter that volunteers can’t wait to open up [...]
Learn How to Fire a Volunteer with Grace Volunteer management isn’t easy, especially when it comes to knowing when it's the right time to fire a volunteer who is no longer a good fit for your organization or their role. The back and forth internal conversations you have with yourself can be exhausting, but there [...]
Civic Participation & the Right to Vote: Brought to You by Volunteers. Worth Defending. When most volunteer organizations that are not involved in politics or policy think of civic participation, they often view it as something entirely separate from volunteerism. They often see it as something that is a result, rather than an action, of community organizing [...]
Volunteer Management Tips: Mindset Matters Want to develop your best volunteer program ever? Don't search the dark corners of the internet for random volunteer management tips! One the most important of all volunteer management skills is your mindset. And, no matter how many volunteer management tips and techniques you gather, without the right mindset you [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Using Content Marketing How do we recruit volunteers in the best way for our nonprofit? If you find yourself asking this question often, you’re not alone. In our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, volunteer recruitment is the top challenge noted by respondents for five years running. Other barriers to success pale in [...]
Opinion: Is Now the Time to Push the Pause Button on the Recruitment of Volunteers? The recruitment of volunteers appears to be a growing challenge for nonprofits in the current climate, as the COVID-19 pandemic wages on and the public is less willing to put themselves in harm's way. We’re hearing from our VolunteerPro community members and training and consulting clients that it's getting [...]
Supervising Volunteers: Using Transformational Talent Management to Take Your Organization Further The challenge of supervising volunteers effectively is often noted as a key concern for volunteer organizations. We see it pop up in our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report state-of-the-industry survey and mentioned by our training participants. The fact is folks are not having fun. The ability to lead an unpaid [...]