June 22, 2023
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July 28, 2021You’ve successfully recruited all of the volunteers and staff you need to support your cause. They’re eager, they’re ready to go, and now it’s time to begin training, but is your organization doing everything it can to ensure your training program is effective? This article provides some insight and tips on how to manage your training
May 02, 2022For those of us working in the non-profit sector and in particular for those who engage volunteers, many of the issues raised in this recent paper published by ONN earlier this year resonate with our lived experience. Quite often Volunteer Engagement (VE) staff engage not only volunteers, but student placements and training placements. Are these types of placements truly voluntary in nature and what exactly are the implications for our organization when we are tasked with managing them?
Putting on an awards gala, orchestrating a day-long river cleanup or coordinating a shelter adoption event are just a few examples of critical nonprofit work that relies on a lot of volunteers to be a success. Yet these marquee events, while high-profile and mission-critical, can be few and far between. This begs the question: What do you do with your army of volunteers in the meantime? Perhaps most importantly, how do you ensure that they’ll be ready and willing the next time you need their help? The good news is that there is an easy tool that both keeps your volunteers active with your mission and that helps you recruit new supporters: online petitions.
