• Home
  • Start Here
  • Pinterest
  • Contact Me
  • VPT Tips
  • Download Volunteerplaintalk Tools
  • Volunteer and Nonprofit Merchandise

volunteerplaintalk

~ for today's leaders of volunteers

volunteerplaintalk

Category Archives: strategies and goals

Are You a Steel Trap, A Sieve or A Spigot?

August 18, 2021

Working for a nonprofit, I quickly learned that unless stuff was written in a memo, information was pretty much filtered …

Continue reading →

Becoming Volunteer to Organization (V2O)

August 26, 2020

Are organizations V2O friendly or are we more like a V-mart where we offer a “take it or leave it” engagement experience?

Continue reading →

Moving from O2V to V2V to V2O

August 19, 2020

Nonprofits no longer have the monopoly on solving issues. What can business teach us about our current volunteering model?

Continue reading →

Is Compassion a Velvet Chain?

June 24, 2020

Here’s the thing. I think we must stop telling volunteers that “helping people” will make them feel good.

Continue reading →

Volunteer Flow Strategy

June 3, 2020

Instead of the notion that a volunteer manager should “work harder” to “get volunteers,” we need to place the reasons volunteers leave or never get started squarely on the outdated systems that no longer work.

Continue reading →

Predicting Volunteer Flow

May 27, 2020

Our aim is to create a consistent flow of highly engaged and productive volunteers who positively impact our organization’s goals, objectives and mission. This is the time to introduce the factors that freeze or free up a volunteer flow.

Continue reading →

What We Do Know

April 8, 2020

Uncertainty sucks big time, but guess what? We, volunteer managers deal in uncertainty all the time. Think about it. Everyday …

Continue reading →

You Can Water Plastic Flowers, But They Won’t Grow

March 10, 2020

for every minute we spend on something with little ROI, we miss spending that minute on something with a large ROI that has impact and moves us in the direction we want to go.

Continue reading →

Volunteer Management in The Past Decade

January 8, 2020

Ahh, the 2010s. In looking back over the past 10 years, what ideas took hold and where do we need …

Continue reading →

Volunteer Management Chess

March 6, 2019

  Do you ever dream you’re playing a game of chess and your volunteers are (wait, you were going to …

Continue reading →

← Older posts

Books

  • Learn more about strategy in the Disruptive Volunteer Manager Learn more about strategy in the Disruptive Volunteer Manager
  • The Disruptive Volunteer Manager e-version The Disruptive Volunteer Manager e-version

Podcast

  • Google Podcasts
  • I Tunes I Tunes
  • Spotify Spotify
  • Stitcher Stitcher
  • Volunteer Plain Talk Podcast

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,975 other subscribers

Merch

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

“The Volunteer Shelf Life” by Meridian Swift

Top Posts

  • A Resilience Worksheet: Free Download
    A Resilience Worksheet: Free Download
  • A Good Time to Collect Data: Free Volunteer Survey
    A Good Time to Collect Data: Free Volunteer Survey
  • Sustainability and Volunteerism
    Sustainability and Volunteerism
  • Ten Email Subject Lines for Volunteer Managers
    Ten Email Subject Lines for Volunteer Managers
  • Volunteer News Stories: Does This Good Press Really Help?
    Volunteer News Stories: Does This Good Press Really Help?
  • Top 3 Theme Ideas for Volunteer  Appreciation Week
    Top 3 Theme Ideas for Volunteer Appreciation Week

Website

  • Looking for Vol Mgmt tips?
  • The Latest Volunteer Mgt. News The Latest Volunteer Mgt. News

Backtalk

Sustainable Voluntee… on Innovation and Sustainable…
Sustainable Voluntee… on Sustainability and Volunteeris…
volunteerplaintalk on What is Volunteer Value, …
Sue Carter Kahl on What is Volunteer Value, …
volunteerplaintalk on What Are Volunteer Incentives,…
Laura on What Are Volunteer Incentives,…
Before You Punish An… on Thanks to the volunteers who l…
volunteerplaintalk on Thanks to the volunteers who l…
Jayne Cravens on Thanks to the volunteers who l…
Eileen on Volunteerism Lip Service
Follow volunteerplaintalk on WordPress.com
  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Blogroll

  • "The Volunteer Shelf Life" by Meridian Swift
  • Discuss
  • Engaging volunteers
  • Get Inspired
  • Get Polling
  • Get Support
  • Learn WordPress.com
  • Rob Jackson
  • Twenty Hats by Elisa Kosarin
  • WordPress Planet
  • WordPress.com News

Website

  • Looking for Vol Mgmt tips?
  • The Latest Volunteer Mgt. News The Latest Volunteer Mgt. News

Pin It

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • volunteerplaintalk
    • Join 481 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • volunteerplaintalk
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...