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“Scoop it Forward” with Summertime Volunteering

This delicious opportunity came across our desk from Volunteer Match. Consider this added incentive for your volunteers! Brownie Chew Gooder? This summer, VolunteerMatch, Ben & Jerry’s and Target and  want you to get involved in your community, and we’re sweetening the deal to prove it. Scoop It Forward, a summer-long promotion, invites you [...] More...

The Hidden Workforce: How to Run Effective Volunteer Programs

Thanks to Melanie Wilson, Director of Research and Public Policy at the New England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services for forwarding news about a new report and tool, The Hidden Workforce: Are you ready for help? Since the early 1990’s, experts have been telling the nonprofit world that an advancing wave of retiring baby [...] More...

How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service.  Robert J. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant.   He offered to write a guest post. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at [...] More...

Volunteer West Virginia - 8 Steps to Successful Volunteer Program

By following the eight steps listed below, starting an employee volunteer program can be more straightforward and simple. The steps outlined below will assist your company in putting processes and systems in place to ensure the employee volunteer program is successful and effective. More...

Learner Resource Center: Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool - Center for Community and Economic Development - UWEX

This section of the Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool can help guide a group discussion about an organization's volunteer involvement. This group discussion ideally should include board members, staff, volunteers, and service recipients, but could be used as a self-assessment tool by anyone associated with a nonprofit organization. More...

Resource Library: Training & Resources - Virginia Service

Rich resource for planning and managing volunteer programs. Dig around here for more on NPO management. More...

Take Care of Your Volunteers and They’ll Take Care of You

Volunteers provide vital human resources to our nonprofits—but do we treat them with the value and respect they deserve? People who choose to contribute their time to our organizations do so for many reasons but fundamentally they want to make a difference. Whether it’s for a short period of time (such as tagging photos from Haiti), planning an event or a life time of dedication to one issue or organization, there are "tried and true" ways of recruiting and retaining volunteers for our work. Common Good Vermont hosted Attract and Keep Your Volunteers in Franklin County on June 14th with an experienced panel reporting on their version of “best practices” to help nonprofits make the most of their community based volunteers. More...

Quit beating the bush for volunteers- Volunteer Alberta CSGVP PPT

Volunteer Trends and detailed data of use for volunteer audience research. More...

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