Volunteer Time Donor or Time Investor?
Doesn’t it feel like investing is closer to what volunteers do? Maybe we should start to rethink this whole time donor idea.
Category Archives: explaining volunteer management
If You Love What You Do, It’s Not Work…Wait, Really?
Most of us didn’t seek out volunteer management because we loved it, but stumbled into volunteer management and fell in love with the work.
#LoVols, You Are Growing Branches
Experiential learning teaches us to apply knowledge from doing. It forces us to experiment until we get things right.
Hey #LoVols Reputation, Meet Our Self-Identity
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.
The Volunteer Periphery is Expanding
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.
Finding One Another is Our Future
We, leaders of volunteers (#LoVols) have shared experiences, shared hopes, shared challenges and a shared future. We are a family, …
#LoVols, Our Secret Sauce
The visionary approach is to offer the impact of volunteer involvement and remove the objections to it.
VIP-volunteer investment process free download
Volunteers are wonderful people who develop into effective volunteers through strategic investment. That’s what #LoVols do all day.
What do #LoVols do all day?
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
#LoVols, This Needs to Change Now
Why is the work #LoVols do so misunderstood? Let’s explain it.
