You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community
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Transforming Disruption to Impact: Rethinking Volunteer Engagement for a Rapidly Changing World
For generations, engaging volunteers has been a vital strategy for communities to solve problems, but the events of 2020 disrupted
Transforming Disruption to Impact
60 minutes For generations, engaging volunteers has been a vital strategy for communities to solve problems. Yet, the events since
Internal Partnering to Enhance Volunteer Engagement: Guide to Collaborating Across Departments
In a culture of volunteer engagement, volunteer managers and directors do much more than “just” manage volunteers. They are strategic
Enhancing the Volunteer Lifecycle
Enhancing the Volunteer Lifecycle contains easy-to-apply information and tips on enhancing the experience and impact of volunteers at your organization. And, it’s
How Volunteering was Disrupted by the Pandemic
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Enhancing Volunteer Engagement Through Internal Partnerships
60 Minutes In a culture of volunteer engagement, volunteer managers and directors do much more than “just” manage volunteers. Instead,
Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World
Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World taps expert knowledge from today’s volunteerism professionals – including Beth Steinhorn, VQ
3 Actions to Sustain Engagement Amid Disruptions
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Blog: 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
Blog: 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
Blog: Adapt and Overcome
In honor of Veterans Day, we are reposting an e-newsletter we shared in fall 2020 highlighting the flexibility and adaptiveness
Blog: 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
Blog: 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,
Blog: Chart the Future of Volunteer Management
Attention all leaders of volunteers: We are pleased to help promote the annual 2024 Volunteer Management Progress Report, VolunteerPro's ninth
Blog: Mythbusting 101: Day 5
Every day, volunteers help organizations achieve their mission – delivering meals, entering data, providing pro bono consulting, mentoring youth –
Blog: Mythbusting 101: Day 3
Every day, volunteers help organizations achieve their mission – delivering meals, entering data, providing pro bono consulting, mentoring youth –
4 Steps to Nurture Volunteer Belonging
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Blog: What is Strategic Volunteer Engagement?
What is strategic volunteer engagement - and why does it matter? Driven by the power of volunteer energy and grounded
Blog: Drumroll, please! Landmark Research on Volunteer Engagement & Funding
Today was a longtime coming. After years of meetings, dialogue, presentations, advocacy, (and yes, maybe even some proverbial hair-pulling in
Blog: Introducing our Book Group Facilitation Guide!
When we first conceived of the book, Transforming Disruption to Impact, our goal was to spark conversation about the innovations
4 New-Year Resolutions for Rebooting Your Volunteer Strategy
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Blog: Rethinking Service Days – Join our Conversation
MLK Jr. Day of Service 2023 is right around the corner, with all its potential and promise. Yet, are you
Blog: New Book Convenes Voices Across Sector
Imagine you had the ability to invite the leading thinkers in volunteer engagement, corporate engagement, philanthropy, nonprofit leadership - along
Blog: Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries
They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied
Hot off the Press: Writings to Inspire Impact
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Change and Transformation: Learning from Outliers
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Blog: Family Volunteering – All Together Now!
November 20, 2021 is Family Volunteer Day – a global day of service that celebrates the power of families who
Blog: Building Leadership Support through Good Goals and Meaningful Metrics
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to rethink how they do business, including how volunteers serve.
Blog: Planning for the New 3 Rs of Engagement: COVID-19 Recovery, Reopening, and Return
As organizations begin to recover, reopen, and return to more normalized operations after the pandemic, developing a plan
Blog: The Power of Plans, Peers, and Pivots
At the start of 2020, we at VQ Volunteer Strategies were training and coaching four different cohorts of organizations. While
Adapt and Overcome: How 2020 Brings Innovation and Flexibility for Volunteer-Led Programs
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Blog: Redefining Leadership: Finding Balance in Recovery and Renewal
In our recent blog, we explored the importance of making the case for volunteer engagement as a strategy to sustain
Blog: Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations
The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference
Blog: A 2020 Time Machine
2020 hasn’t turned out as any of us expected. Just for a moment, imagine what you would say if you could magically travel back and provide some advice or pose questions to your January self… What would you ask? What advice might you give?
Blog: Do you Have a Seat at the Leadership Table?
Now, more than ever, volunteer engagement professionals need a seat the leadership table to help organizations leverage this vast resource
Now is the time to Build Engagement, Not Reduce It
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Blog: Engagement as a Path to Inclusion and Justice
Just as organizations began to explore reopening models after months of pandemic-induced closures or adaptations to services, millions of people
Blog: Stories from the Field: How Your Peers are Adapting Engagement Strategies
Nearly every day since the coronavirus outbreak, I have had the privilege of participating in calls with organizational leaders and
Blog: Volunteer Engagement Plan for COVID-19 Response
In recent weeks, we have come face to face with unprecedented challenges as the world is now in full response
Blog: Meaningful Meetings
January isn’t even over, and already I have spent five full days and one half-day in meetings with staff and
Volunteer Engagement for Nonprofit Impact
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What Is Engagement? Transforming Volunteering into Engagement
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Volunteering for Volunteer Engagement: Professional Volunteers vs. Volunteering for the Profession
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