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Discover Volunteer Management Trends and Best Practices

Enjoy articles, blogs, upcoming events and links to external resources on volunteerism, volunteer management and engagement. Our goal is to provide a library of material to help positively impact community needs, enhance volunteer experiences and support organizations' needs to increase capacity.

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August 23, 2022
2,168
Lori Gotlieb
Building A Healthy Non-profit Board/Committee
Volunteer Management
#Boards and committees #Working with boards #Governance +1

The success of a healthy board or committee is instrumental for an organization’s or association’s growth and sustainab...

August 16, 2022
440
Chelsea C Anthony
The Benefits of Volunteering for Teens and High School Stude...
Research & Reports
Tools & Templates
#Benefits of volunteering #Trends #Value of volunteering +4

As a high school student, one of the requirements for graduation is the completion of a certain number of volunteer hour...

August 16, 2022
2,896
Chelsea C Anthony
Before Recruitment, Know your BFORs! Why knowing your Bona F...
#Diversity, Equality, Inclusion #Interviewing #Role descriptions +7

What are the factors you consider when recruiting for a volunteer role? Chances are you probably want a good volunteer....

July 27, 2022
1,701
By Lori Gotlieb
Will Non-profit Volunteer Programs Survive Instability?
Training
#Collaboration #Governance #Leadership +6

After reading an article that was published by CBC about the decline of volunteering in Toronto, I decided to write an o...

July 25, 2022
1,700
Aleksandra Vasic
Need to refresh your Volunteer Policies? Check out this free...
Volunteer Management
#Assessment and Evaluation #Screening #Volunteer Management +2

Volunteer Success is pleased to share this wonderful volunteer policy primer created by Volunteer Toronto. As this prime...

July 22, 2022
1,926
Thomas W. Mckee
Understanding Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement: What Is...
#Informal volunteering #Retention #Recruitment +4

I recently googled “Volunteer” on Google images and got 972,000,000 pictures. The first two pages of images, since I did...

July 21, 2022
1,738
Thomas W. Mckee
Volunteer Recruiting is like Dating
#Interviewing #Recruitment #Screening +4

Getting someone to volunteer is like the dating process–getting to know each other and finally asking the commitment que...

July 21, 2022
1,722
Vantage Point
Free toolkit on Reactive Volunteer Engagement from Vantage P...
#Retention #Recruitment #Trends +3

How many of us have faced this scenario: someone walks through the doors of your organization, unsolicited, and expresse...

July 20, 2022
1,523
volunteerplaintalk
It’s Time for Volunteer Fresh!
#Volunteer Management #Value of volunteering #Volunteer Engagement

Is there a soft bias towards volunteers because they only volunteer once a week or month? Volunteers can’t be as committ...

July 19, 2022
263
Chelsea C Anthony
Benefits of Volunteering for College and University Students...
Research & Reports
#Benefits of volunteering #Informal volunteering #Trends +2

What are some of the benefits of volunteering for College and University Students? For university and college students p...

July 18, 2022
1,487
Funding For Good
Top 5 Reasons for Tracking Volunteer Hours
#Assessment and Evaluation #Volunteer Management #Support and supervision +1

Time management for nonprofit leaders is already a precarious balancing act, so it’s easy to understand why program mana...

July 12, 2022
1,918
Funding For Good
Bless and Release | How to Fire Bad Volunteers
Volunteer Management
Training
#Fundraising #Program development #Assessment and Evaluation +1

Let’s be honest for a minute. Bad volunteers DO exist, and nonprofits struggle to fire bad volunteers generous enough to...

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