March 26, 2025
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June 14, 2022Succession planning for volunteers is an important component to the volunteer management cycle. One of the biggest challenges is retaining volunteers, especially the good ones. Why is it that the challenging ones never leave but the great ones do? Succession planning needs to be embedded in the framework of a volunteer program.
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?
