Are You a Steel Trap, A Sieve or A Spigot?
Working for a nonprofit, I quickly learned that unless stuff was written in a memo, information was pretty much filtered …
Category Archives: strategies and goals
Becoming Volunteer to Organization (V2O)
Are organizations V2O friendly or are we more like a V-mart where we offer a “take it or leave it” engagement experience?
Moving from O2V to V2V to V2O
Nonprofits no longer have the monopoly on solving issues. What can business teach us about our current volunteering model?
Is Compassion a Velvet Chain?
Here’s the thing. I think we must stop telling volunteers that “helping people” will make them feel good.
Volunteer Flow Strategy
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“work harder” to “get volunteers,” we need to place the reasons volunteers leave or never get started squarely on the outdated systems that no longer work.
Predicting Volunteer Flow
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.
What We Do Know
Uncertainty sucks big time, but guess what? We, volunteer managers deal in uncertainty all the time. Think about it. Everyday …
You Can Water Plastic Flowers, But They Won’t Grow
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.
Volunteer Management in The Past Decade
Ahh, the 2010s. In looking back over the past 10 years, what ideas took hold and where do we need …
Volunteer Management Chess
Do you ever dream you’re playing a game of chess and your volunteers are (wait, you were going to …
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