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VPT Podcast: Resilience: Laura Rundell and I chat
Are volunteers resilient? How about volunteer mangers? How filled up is your cope-o-meter right now? In this VPT podcast, Laura Rundell chats resilience.
Never Forget, You Have a Hand in This
We invest in people. But we don’t often measure our investment’s growth. We’re too overwhelmed with daily work to stop and take stock of our positive influence on volunteers and our missions.
Volunteer Programs: Incubators or Coops?
We have to stop the misconception that volunteers are possessions, and until we throw them out, they will keep coming back up to the moment they wear out or die. Instead, let’s speak of volunteers as temporary from the start. They are with us for the time that benefits us and them, not forever or until we dump them. Let’s speak about the privilege to have them for one event, one week, one season or one year. Never forever.
VPT Podcast: Where do we go from here? Brittany McGarry has some answers
Recently, (like 2 weeks ago) I had the opportunity to chat with Brittany McGarry, a volunteer engagement specialist at the …
#LoVols, You Are Growing Branches
Experiential learning teaches us to apply knowledge from doing. It forces us to experiment until we get things right.
Happy New Year!
Here’s to a wonderful 2021! -Meridian
Happy Holidays, LoVols
-Meridian
Yay, Another Holiday Card From a NonProfit!
Some of the cards I received included timely messages about the organization’s work. I find that more engaging than a simple signature. But a message to me as an active volunteer when I’m not, is tone-deaf.
Holiday Card (2020 Style) for Volunteers: Free Download
Happy Holidays everyone, please feel free to download this holiday mp4 and share with your volunteers. You are welcome to …
