Leading volunteers can often feel like walking a tightrope as we balance many seemingly conflicting things: For...
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Walking the Tightrope of Screening Volunteers – Part I
As professionals and leaders of volunteers we must balance many seemingly conflicting things: for example, honoring...
Mattering: The Growing Volunteer Motivator
The sticky note on the side of my desk reads, "Making a difference is a way to know you matter." Uncharacteristically...
Reduce the Recruitment Challenge: Feedback Key to Gen Z Engagement
As workplaces struggle to hire and retain employees, nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations have parallel...
Finding the Right Volunteer Opportunity
Have you seen the latest issue of Civic Life Today magazine? April's issue focuses on -- you guessed it --...
New eToolkit on Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers Amid Uncertainty
Volunteer engagement has been evolving for years, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations were forced to...
Is There a Secret Shopper in your Midst?
We had such good feedback on this post when it was originally published in 2011 that we wanted to pull it from the...
Transforming Holiday One-Timers into Ongoing Volunteers
‘Tis the season. Not just for celebration… but for people to show up in droves to volunteer over the holidays....
Data as a Doorway to Engagement
When I reviewed the draft application, I thought it was a minor oversight that the form asked for phone number but not email.