Volunteer Time Donor or Time Investor?
Doesn’t it feel like investing is closer to what volunteers do? Maybe we should start to rethink this whole time donor idea.
Tag Archives: volunteer management
Lies and well, more lies
She turned. “The volunteers are well meaning, but sometimes they think they know better than the actual people who work here.”
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 …
If You Love What You Do, It’s Not Work…Wait, Really?
Most of us didn’t seek out volunteer management because we loved it, but stumbled into volunteer management and fell in love with the work.
Until the Family Member Said, “No.”
My organization developed a solid volunteer strategy. One volunteer even referred to it as a rescue team of angels who …
When a Volunteer Has Your Back
I was des-per-ate for any able-bodied human to help me on the box truck I would borrow to pick up donated furniture…
How about these Recent Volunteering Headlines?
If headlines really told the story.
Collaborative Volunteering or Why I Started Enjoying the Kids
Collaborative volunteering takes away the sizing up of a potential volunteer to see if they would fit into our little mold.
A Resilience Worksheet: Free Download
Nurturing resilience is a gift to your future self. It doesn’t matter if change is upheaval or small, it upsets the status quo and we can nurture a “change is not the end of the world” mindset, so that when changes occur, volunteers are prepared to work through them.
Volunteer Resilience
Because volunteer resilience is key to not only surviving major disruptions, but key to surviving and thriving during more minor disruptions, we are knee-deep in encouraging resilience. Nurturing volunteer resilience is necessary, regardless of a pandemic or a change in policy.
