April 27, 2023 Episode #055: How to Get Your CVA Credential with Faiza Venzant Today's episode, we are talking with Faiza Venzant on how to get your Certified in Volunteer Administration credential. Faiza Venzant, CVA is the Executive Director of the Council for Certification in Volunteer [...]
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 [...]
April 6, 2023 Episode #052: New Volunteer Research with Jennifer Bennett and Darcy Hughes of VolunteerMatch We are pleased to discuss and bring to our audience a new research report from my friends at VolunteerMatch and how we connect hopeful and helpful data from today's volunteers. [...]
March 30, 2023 Episode #051: 10 Reasons Why Volunteerism is Important (Way Beyond the Fluff!) April, which is worldwide volunteer month, is set to start. I wanted to take some time to reflect on the significance of volunteering. And I want to go way beyond the [...]
March 23, 2023 Episode #050: How to Use Volunteer Quotes to Inspire Leadership & Resilience In our 50th Volunteer Nation episode, and in honor of upcoming National Volunteer Week celebrations, Tobi shares some fresh ideas on how to effectively use volunteer quotes to inspire leadership and [...]
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 [...]