June 8, 2023 Episode #61: Training for Nonprofits - How We've Got it All Wrong In today's episode, Tobi discusses about training for nonprofits and how we've got it all wrong. When we do launches and promotions at VolunteerPro, we ask our audience of followers why they [...]
June 1, 2023 Episode #60: Giving Circles and Collective Philanthropy with Sara Lomelin In today's episode, Tobi interviews Sara Lomelin who is an expert in Giving Circles and collective philanthropy. Here at VolunteerPro, we're also very interested in doing that when it comes to community engagement, [...]
May 25, 2023 Episode #059: 6 Must Have Strategies to Recruit Volunteers Using Your Website In today's episode, Tobi talks about how to improve your recruiting volunteers on your website. Tobi worked with many coaching clients around their volunteer recruitment strategies, and she have taken a [...]
May 18, 2023 Episode #058: Innovative Models in Volunteerism Research with Lucas Meijs In today's episode, Tobi interviews Lucas Meijs about innovative models in volunteerism research. Lucas has been writing about and researching volunteerism for three decades. The discussion revolves around the idea that articles about [...]
May 11, 2023 Episode #057: The Compassionate Instinct & Bringing Wonder Back to Work with Dacher Keltner In today's episode, Tobi features Dacher Keltner and discusses the compassionate instinct, bringing wonder and awe back into our lives, and becoming more resilient. Dacher Keltner is a professor [...]
May 4, 2023 Episode #056: The Role of Voluntarism & Volunteerism in America with Elisabeth Clemens In today's episode, Tobi interviews Dr. Elisabeth Clemens from University of Chicago who is an expert in how volunteerism sits and civic society sits in building our nation here in [...]
April 20, 2023 Episode #054: National Volunteer Week 2023 - A Year to Be Grateful Today's episode, we're going to talk about National Volunteer Week 2023. Our theme is a year to be grateful. A year to be grateful, and Tobi shares some of the things [...]
April 16, 2023 Episode #053: Promoting a Healthy Workplace Culture for Volunteers with Marianne Chance In today's episode, we are going to be talking with Marianne Chance about promoting a healthy workplace culture for volunteers, not only for volunteers, but in our nonprofits in general. Marianne [...]
Announcing: Our New Nonprofit Podcast! Wave goodbye to our Tobi Johnson and Associates blog and say hello to our new nonprofit podcast, Volunteer Nation! After literally years of planning (and procrastination), the my newest is finally ready for primetime. You may have already been listening to my Time + Talent Podcast with Jennifer Bennett [...]
How to Thrive in Changing Times: Two Key Shifts to Make in Your Nonprofit Management We rarely think specifically about how we lead as nonprofit management professionals. Our management models are as invisible to us as our own breathing. The way we choose to manage and support our teams is either inadvertent or unconscious -- we manage [...]