Mono or Multi? Voluntasking is the Answer
Greta’s hand was shaking. Three recent volunteer requests needed her attention. One of her volunteers, Serena, was on the phone …
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Let’s Design Mission Centric Volunteer Engagement
Strategizing priorities when receiving volunteer requests ensures that volunteers are engaged in meaningful, mission critical work. (see Attention: The Volunteer Department …
Attention: The Volunteer Department Now Has Ground Rules
“I need 8 volunteers or maybe 9, no wait,” she says, grabbing your arm in the hallway, “yeah, make it …
Volunteer Department Ground Rules
In this dream you walk up to a woman sitting at a desk. Behind her, a closed-door is visible in …
Non-Profits, Your Volunteer Manager Wanted Ads Say A Lot About You
The Volunteer Manager wanted ads out there remind me of a fish market. Some offerings are fresh, appealing and beautifully …
Don’t. Do. This. Ever.
Sometimes misdeeds are huge, indefensible and devastating. Take the ongoing scandal involving Oxfam for instance. It’s big. But slippery slopes lurk …
A Volunteer Manager’s Hidden Cupcake New Year’s Resolutions.
New Year’s resolutions? Who keeps them? Anybody? There’s a whole science out there that studies why we make resolutions …
Sometimes, You Fight the Good Fight and Sometimes, You Go
I had a different post all ready to go, and it just didn’t feel right today, not after the lunch …
The Best of 2017, Volunteer Manager Style
Goodbye 2017! Hello New Year. But wait, was 2017 just another blah year for volunteer managers? The biggest take-away from …
Michael
Do our volunteers connect us to those unexpected moments, the ones that last? Greg had volunteered to help Roy, the …
