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February 19, 2020

Picture a student, late at night, phone in hand, swiping through ads that will fulfill their desire to be a change maker. Or a senior, recently widowed, searching in the still morning for something that will add meaning to a bruised soul

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Volunteer Management: A Kiddie Pool or an Ocean?

June 5, 2019

  “Coffee break again?” Clara laughs. “Yeah, this is my 6th coffee break today and I’m wired from all the …

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Volunteer Clicks or Cliques?

December 12, 2018

One of the most prolific skills volunteer managers possess is the art of matching volunteers to not only roles, but …

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Volunteer Motivation: Past, Present and Future

October 3, 2018

Alana clicked the wireless presenter and the slide advanced. “Here,” she said, “we have a list of awards our volunteers …

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Should Our Volunteer Ads Be More “Real?”

August 8, 2018

Opening her laptop, Yvonne peered at a tiny picture in the daily feed. She studied the photograph of the child …

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Volunteering and the Goldilocks Margins

July 25, 2018

Do volunteers wander from organization to organization, sampling the volunteer porridge or sitting in different volunteering task chairs, looking for …

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Do Volunteers say ‘they’ or ‘we?’

July 4, 2018

  Niko looked down at her t-shirt that read “Children’s Zoo Volunteer.” She forgot that she still had it on. …

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Volunteer Chaos Theory: If a butterfly flaps its wings, will Jeremy volunteer?

May 16, 2018

I’m on a short vacation this week, so I’m revisiting a post I wrote in 2015 and tweaking it just …

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And The Gold Medal Goes To…

February 21, 2018

By any chance, did you watch the Volunteer Manager Olympics last night? Oh my gosh, it was exhilarating. Volunteer managers …

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“We want to work with staff who have drunk the Kool-Aid,” an interview with Laura Rundell, CVA

January 31, 2018

    Recently I had the pleasure in chatting with Laura Rundell, CVA, the Volunteer Coordinator at LifeBridge Community Services …

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