Does Your Current Volunteer Management System Actually Drive Great Results? The presence of an effective volunteer management system can be the difference between a vibrant, high-impact nonprofit and those that struggle to find their footing. By “volunteer management system” I mean a model for success. While software systems can certainly be a key to successful [...]
Volunteer Management Trends for 2021: Key Takeaways from Our Latest Research Our latest Volunteer Management Progress Report is hot off the presses and ready with current data on volunteer management trends for 2021. We have just posted the 2021 Volunteer Management Progress Report - The COVID-19 Edition, and it is ready for download [...]
How to Develop and Engage Your Volunteer Community Online: Your Complete Guide Throughout the course of this pandemic, we have been getting a lot of questions in the VolunteerPro Membership Community on the topic of engaging your volunteer community online. Before the stay-at-home orders, engaging with anyone in-person was second nature. You pass people in the hallways [...]
Our Top Six Volunteer Management Trends for 2021 As we take the first tentative steps into 2021, let’s take look at our predictions for volunteer management trends for the new year. Relief is on the horizon now that the COVID-19 pandemic vaccinations are underway. That means we need to prepare for full [...]
Top Tips for Leaders of Volunteers: How to Survive and Thrive During Times of Crisis In our VolunteerPro Premium Membership community, our team has been noticing that people are feeling a bit burnt out, stressed, and overwhelmed with everything going on in our communities. We answered their concerns by participating in a [...]
Top 10 Volunteer Leadership Development Posts for 2020 Volunteer leadership development may have taken a back seat in 2020, but it may be time to revive it. In times of crisis, volunteer leaders can be your biggest allies and your personal leadership skills are what will get you through. It's [...]
Why Volunteer Management Jobs Should be a 2021 Priority for Your Organization Unfortunately, we all find ourselves in uncharted waters. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. It is a tough time in our sector. We've heard from many of our VolunteerPro members that they’ve been furloughed or laid off over the past few months. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]