Volunteer Management: A Kiddie Pool or an Ocean?
“Coffee break again?” Clara laughs. “Yeah, this is my 6th coffee break today and I’m wired from all the …
Tag Archives: recruiting volunteers
Volunteer Clicks or Cliques?
One of the most prolific skills volunteer managers possess is the art of matching volunteers to not only roles, but …
Volunteer Motivation: Past, Present and Future
Alana clicked the wireless presenter and the slide advanced. “Here,” she said, “we have a list of awards our volunteers …
Should Our Volunteer Ads Be More “Real?”
Opening her laptop, Yvonne peered at a tiny picture in the daily feed. She studied the photograph of the child …
Volunteering and the Goldilocks Margins
Do volunteers wander from organization to organization, sampling the volunteer porridge or sitting in different volunteering task chairs, looking for …
Do Volunteers say ‘they’ or ‘we?’
Niko looked down at her t-shirt that read “Children’s Zoo Volunteer.” She forgot that she still had it on. …
Volunteer Chaos Theory: If a butterfly flaps its wings, will Jeremy volunteer?
I’m on a short vacation this week, so I’m revisiting a post I wrote in 2015 and tweaking it just …
And The Gold Medal Goes To…
By any chance, did you watch the Volunteer Manager Olympics last night? Oh my gosh, it was exhilarating. Volunteer managers …
“We want to work with staff who have drunk the Kool-Aid,” an interview with Laura Rundell, CVA
Recently I had the pleasure in chatting with Laura Rundell, CVA, the Volunteer Coordinator at LifeBridge Community Services …
The Volunteer Ripple Effect
I’m convinced. We, Leaders of Volunteers (#LOVols) hold in our hands more power to affect positive change than we …
