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Interview With a Volunteer: Ellie Part 2

May 10, 2017

Part two of an interview with Ellie, a volunteer for 18 years with a hospice. VPT: Let’s look at things …

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Interview With A Volunteer: Ellie

May 3, 2017

We all know volunteer feedback is invaluable, during and after projects and assignments. There is also value in gathering feedback …

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Oh BTW, Get 42 Permanent Volunteers By Next Month-Part 2 Looking Back

September 14, 2016

We have to be prepared for it. One day you’re working hard placing volunteers when bam, you’re now in charge …

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Oh BTW, Get 42 Permanent Vols By Next Month-Part 1

September 7, 2016

  Is this the new volunteer manager job security? A dear colleague and friend to this blog, Eileen from Volunteering …

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Volunteering Ointment While the Wound Heals

July 13, 2016

  I was reading this article on how volunteering helped a volunteer through her grief and it gave me this warm, familiar feeling, …

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See, Hear, Then Feel

June 15, 2016

“I walked into this position without any experience,” says Miriam, a tiny freckled redhead with sea blue glasses. “I had …

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Humbled

March 9, 2016

Managing volunteers is very much like attending a life university in which there are classes on leadership, psychology, history, arts, …

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The Two Forks and Timing

February 17, 2016

Icebreakers: I could never really get the hang of using them at the first meeting when training hospice volunteers. I …

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“It’s Good to Remember, Remember With You”

January 27, 2016

With his permission granted, I want to share a song written several years ago by Michael Becker, a talented singer and …

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Volunteers: The Quiet Why

December 16, 2015

But it was Mary, Mary Long before the fashions came And there is something there that sounds so square It’s …

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