February 23, 2023 Episode #046: Save Time with Better Volunteer Management Systems Anyone who knows Tobi knows that she is a HUGE soccer fan. In this week’s episode, she shares the concept of one-touch and two-touch ball passes – basically taking fewer steps to increase your [...]
February 9, 2023 Episode #044: 6 Creative Ways to Recruit Volunteers When we think about recruiting volunteers, too often we focus on pushing out a big appeal as many times as possible on as many platforms as possible. But...what if you could apply some strategy and creativity [...]
February 2, 2023 Episode #043: How to Tap AmeriCorps Grants & Resources with Sharon Tewksbury-Bloom In this year’s Volunteer Management Progress Report, both time and volunteer recruitment were top challenges for leaders of volunteers. Just imagine if you could bring more program development and recruitment assistance [...]
December 1, 2022 Episode #034: Your Nonprofit Strategic Plan for Volunteers – What to Include Here’s a question: when you take a quick scan of the past year, how would you describe it in a word or two? What did your 2022 feel like? What did [...]
November 24, 2022 Episode #033: New Research on Volunteer Funding with Dana Litwin This week, Tobi sits down with strategic volunteer engagement expert and consultant Dana Litwin to talk about a brand new research project in the volunteer sector, and how the data uncovered in that [...]
November 17, 2022 Episode #032: How to Utilize Volunteers for Giving Tuesday with Julia Campbell This week, Tobi sits down with author and fundraising expert Julia Campbell to talk about ways for nonprofits to get involved in Giving Tuesday, and how to include volunteers. What is [...]
July 21, 2022 Episode #015: Recruiting Volunteers Online with Jennifer Bennett In this week’s podcast, Tobi welcomes guest Jennifer Bennett from VolunteerMatch to discuss effective strategies for recruiting volunteers online, and what to do if your current online recruiting efforts are being met with the sound [...]
July 7, 2022 Episode #013: Is Volunteer Word of Mouth All It's Cracked Up to Be In this week’s podcast, Tobi takes a look at volunteer word-of-mouth recruiting, and how this powerful tool is working all the time on behalf of your organization (for good or [...]
May 26, 2022 Episode #007: The Power of Volunteers as Community Capital This week we’re talking about “community capital,” the incredible unique value that every volunteer brings to the organizations in which they choose to serve. More Than an Extra Set of Hands It’s easy to [...]
April 26, 2022 Episode #003: Moving From a Scarcity Mindset to Abundance In this week’s episode, we’re talking about the scarcity mindset, how it blocks your potential, and how it can affect your volunteer program. At nonprofits, a scarcity mindset can pervade how budgets, resources, and [...]
