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#LoVols, You Are Growing Branches

January 6, 2021

Experiential learning teaches us to apply knowledge from doing. It forces us to experiment until we get things right.

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Hey #LoVols Reputation, Meet Our Self-Identity

November 8, 2020

To reframe volunteer engagement and impact, we first need listeners who become supporters who then become advocates for our vision. Our reputation needs to reflect our self-identity as leaders of volunteers.

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The Volunteer Periphery is Expanding

September 2, 2020

Unlike HR folks, who contend with active staff, volunteer managers are tethered to every volunteer, whether they are actively volunteering or they’re rotating in the periphery.

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Finding One Another is Our Future

April 15, 2020

We, leaders of volunteers (#LoVols) have shared experiences, shared hopes, shared challenges and a shared future. We are a family, …

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#LoVols, Our Secret Sauce

February 12, 2020

The visionary approach is to offer the impact of volunteer involvement and remove the objections to it.

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VIP-volunteer investment process free download

January 29, 2020

Volunteers are wonderful people who develop into effective volunteers through strategic investment. That’s what #LoVols do all day.

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What do #LoVols do all day?

January 22, 2020

We may appear to be socializing but we are establishing a welcoming and meaningful atmosphere through the hard work of making it look effortless so volunteers are engaged and add value

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#LoVols, This Needs to Change Now

January 15, 2020

Why is the work #LoVols do so misunderstood? Let’s explain it.

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Volunteer Managers, We Have the Picture; We Just Need the Frame

November 6, 2019

If we make volunteers seem like magic faeries that just rise from the garden and buzz on over to do good work, we diminish the effort they bring and the work we do to develop and ready them.

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5 Ways to Stop The Ride Going Nowhere

October 16, 2019

Passive-aggressive comments are meant to lure you onto an emotional roller coaster. Don’t get on this ride.

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