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It’s Time for Volunteer Fresh

December 8, 2021

Volunteers trail portions of us when in the community and bring portions of our community to us every time they volunteer. They bring our mission to the community and the freshness of our communities to us.

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The Invisible Lines of Connection

October 20, 2021

What was it that drew me to them, and them to me? Did we share similar backgrounds? Heck no. Did we share similar experiences, thoughts, tastes, preferences? Nope.

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I’m Not Nice. Not Really.

October 6, 2021

Volunteer managers must stop allowing the notion that we are nice. No. Not nice. Not pleasant, not cheery, not sweet, not friendly, not genial, and especially not obliging, cheerful, amiable or agreeable.

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Volunteer Time Donor or Time Investor?

September 15, 2021

Doesn’t it feel like investing is closer to what volunteers do? Maybe we should start to rethink this whole time donor idea.

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If You Love What You Do, It’s Not Work…Wait, Really?

August 4, 2021

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.

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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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