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 [...]
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 [...]
January 26, 2023 Episode #042: Why Your Volunteer Recruitment Isn't Working (And What To Do Instead) We often think that, just because our marketing isn’t delivering the results we want, people in the community aren't interested in our cause or volunteering in general. It’s an easy [...]
January 19, 2023 Episode #041: Volunteer Leadership Challenges and Trends for 2023 – Our New Data with Jamie Gaylor, Part 2 In this week’s episode, Tobi continues her conversation with VolunteerPro’s Marketing Manager Jamie Gaylor, discussing the top trends revealed by this year's Volunteer Management Progress [...]
January 12, 2023 Episode #040: Volunteer Management Trends for 2023 – Our New Data with Jamie Gaylor, Part 1 Ever wondered how the results for VolPro’s annual Volunteer Management Progress Report are tabulated and analyzed? In this week’s episode, Tobi is joined by VolPro’s Marketing Manager Jamie [...]
January 5, 2023 Episode #039: Predictions and Trends in Volunteerism for 2023 Who else is excited to welcome 2023 and to say goodbye to 2022? It just feels like a fresh start and a great place to put a stake in the ground to confidently say [...]
December 29, 2022 Episode #038: New Year's Resolution Ideas for Nonprofits Here at VolunteerPro, our focus for 2023 is all about optimization of all our systems. We have an awesome team and great systems in place to to keep everything running smoothly, but we can always [...]
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 [...]