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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Online Volunteer Management Training: What We’ve Done to Pivot During COVID-19 Since the formation of the digital side of our business, VolunteerPro, we’ve been presenting online volunteer management training in the form of individual live webinars, on-demand courses, a membership community portal, and a series of online events. And, we’ve learned a lot over the years -- what [...]