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 16, 2023 Episode #049: Behind the Scenes at Our VolunteerPro Membership Makeover! In this week’s episode, Tobi offers a peek behind the curtain at the process of developing new VolunteerPro curriculum – in this case, for our newly updated VolunteerPro Membership learning hub! She's also [...]
March 9, 2023 Episode #048: New Statistics on Volunteering & Civic Life with Dr Mary Hyde In this week’s episode, we welcome guest Dr. Mary Hyde from AmeriCorps to share some fascinating results from the most recent Volunteer Engagement and Civic Life census supplement. These [...]
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 16, 2023 Episode #045: Build a Smarter Volunteer Retention Strategy What do volunteers experience while serving at your organization? Why do volunteers want to stay? And why do some volunteers decide to leave? In this episode, Tobi offers a closer look at how to design [...]
December 22, 2022 Episode #037: Our Top 10 Nonprofit Blog Posts of 2022 Did you Know: in addition to producing two podcasts (Volunteer Nation and the Time+Talent Podcast with Jennifer Bennett), Tobi also writes a weekly nonprofit blog? There are literally hundreds of in-depth posts, each [...]
December 15, 2022 Episode #036: 5 Nonprofit KPIs Your Volunteer Program Should be Tracking Getting respect and buy-in for your volunteer program means knowing your numbers. This week, Tobi shares five nonprofit KPIs (key performance indicators) and how you can use them to pinpoint successful tactics [...]