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The A B Cs from Conference Season
The weather is warmer, colleagues are signing off earlier on Fridays, and my airline mileage is accumulating quickly. What does all that mean? It means, it’s conference season! In the past 3 months, I have participated in six conferences across the country, including...
Value of Volunteer Involvement… The good, the bad, and the “time” to move on
We are updating this post from last year to reflect the recently released value of volunteer time the past year. While the numbers change, the messaging and considerations remain the same: When is the right time to quantify volunteer worth merely by hours and dollars?...
Developing a Volunteer Engagement Guide for Staff: Getting Beyond the Policy Handbook
Whether or not an organization has a dedicated volunteer engagement manager on staff, engaging and supporting volunteers is never the sole responsibility of just one person or department. Folks who lead programs, raise funds, support operations, and serve as executive...
Clearing Away Barriers to Volunteer Engagement
If you asked the volunteers at your organization, "What is the one thing you would change if you could change anything about volunteering with our organization," what do you think they would say? In my experience, volunteer engagement professionals and nonprofit...
Job Analysis Survey: Share Your Voice
Are you a leader of volunteers within the first five years of your role? Then please share your voice!The Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA) has launched a survey as part of its job analysis process to ensure that the professional...
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...
