Smarter Impact Starts Here
Building the Case to Fund Volunteer Engagement
Today, I heard from a past client excitedly telling me that a donor is interested in supporting the organization in securing volunteer management software. She wrote to ask if I had any new recommendations or information on new products since we last spoke about this,...
Add Your Voice for Better Data
Once again, you have an opportunity to share your voice in the annual Volunteer Management Progress Report. The 10th annual survey has launched! Your input is crucial to uncovering the most current trends in volunteer engagement. This year, VolunteerPro is exploring:...
Adapt and Overcome
In honor of Veterans Day, we are reposting an e-newsletter we shared in fall 2020 highlighting the flexibility and adaptiveness of our partners at Wounded Warrior Project to sustain support. The lessons from their efforts are relevant still. Adapt and Overcome:How...
Investing in Volunteer Engagement Pays Off! New stories to tell.
Over and over again, we have a front row seat in seeing research-based benefits of engaging volunteers really do play out in practice . We see that organizations which engage volunteers strategically and effectively really do outperform those that don't, as volunteer...
Let’s Do This! Advocate for the Profession
Despite all the valuable work that those who lead volunteer engagement do for organizations and the community, the role is not recognized as a profession in the US .. .yet! AL!VE, the Association for Leaders in Volunteer Engagement, is working to enhance the...
Walking the Tightrope of Volunteer Screening – Part II
Leading volunteers can often feel like walking a tightrope as we balance many seemingly conflicting things: For example, needing to be a people person while also tapping administrative and tech skills; Managing people and events, while also leading a strategy…. As...
Walking the Tightrope of Screening Volunteers – Part I
As professionals and leaders of volunteers we must balance many seemingly conflicting things: for example, honoring processes vs. honoring people; respecting what’s worked in the past, while also being open to new ways of doing things…. One that keeps coming up on our...
Value of Volunteer Involvement… The good, the bad, and the “time” to move on
This week, the much anticipated annual announcement of the updated Value of Volunteer Time was announced by Independent Sector and, drumroll please…
Recognition and the Power of Connecting
Earlier this month, I left the office to attend an in-person “Network and Share” event hosted by DOVIA Colorado. The topic was Recognition, wisely timed to inspire new ideas in advance of the upcoming spring National Volunteer Week. While I have presented countless...
Enhance Community Impact: Free Playbooks for City Engagement
Across the nation, city leaders strive to build resilient cities, serve their residents, and strengthen their communities economically, socially, physically, and beyond. This effort has been made even more pressing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though research...
