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 [...]
How to Recruit Volunteers Using Content Marketing How do we recruit volunteers in the best way for our nonprofit? If you find yourself asking this question often, you’re not alone. In our annual Volunteer Management Progress Report survey, volunteer recruitment is the top challenge noted by respondents for five years running. Other barriers to success pale in [...]
Opinion: Is Now the Time to Push the Pause Button on the Recruitment of Volunteers? The recruitment of volunteers appears to be a growing challenge for nonprofits in the current climate, as the COVID-19 pandemic wages on and the public is less willing to put themselves in harm's way. We’re hearing from our VolunteerPro community members and training and consulting clients that it's getting harder [...]
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 [...]
Nonprofit Virtual Events: Your Guide to Inspired Gatherings The sky really is the limit when it comes to coordinating nonprofit virtual events, and with all the options, it can be overwhelming. This blog post will help you quickly gain clarity on the options and best practices to hosting a phenomenal online event that keeps people [...]
Coordinating Volunteers: Two Free Trainings to Inspire Transformation Last spring, in response to COVID-19, we started offering regular Facebook Lives to help those who were coordinating volunteers in this time of uncertainty. We focused on both mindset work as well as tactical skills to help leaders of volunteers coordinate volunteers more effectively and with less stress. Mindset is a [...]
Online Service Learning: Projects for Students & Nonprofits At first glance, it may appear that service learning is not naive but now outdated – nice to have, but not at all possible given the current chaos surrounding back-to-school plans and safety dilemmas during the global COVD-19 pandemic. But, I’d argue that these opportunities are more [...]