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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
5 Ideas for Virtual Volunteer Appreciation Events Who knew that last year when I wrote about how to move your volunteer appreciation event online, we’d still be discussing how to engage volunteers remotely a year later?! But, here we are, on the heels of another National Volunteer Week and even though with the arrival of vaccines there are hopes [...]
10 Year-End Volunteer Recognition Ideas Volunteer recognition is a crucial component to any thriving volunteer program, but fresh volunteer recognition ideas are sometimes hard to come by. Appreciating others for what they give freely is part of fulfilling the social contract, and certainly part of the spreading the holiday spirit. Acknowledging the contributions of [...]
The Complete Guide to Better Volunteer Thank You Notes Volunteer thank you notes should be a key component of your volunteer recognition strategy. And, what better time of year than now to show your supporters some love? ‘Tis the season for giving thanks, showing appreciation, and showering the people you love with gifts. We [...]
Your Team is Stressed. Gratitude Leadership Can Help! Gratitude leadership is a way to help reduce the stress your team is experiencing. Here in the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is hitting a little differently this year. Compared the what we’ve experienced so far in 2020, the normal holiday stress seems non-existent. As we [...]
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 [...]