Volunteers
Volunteer Retention: Choose the Right Job for the Volunteer
Recruiting volunteers is important. Retaining them is even more important. Unfortunately, volunteer retention is going to suffer if you don’t take the individual’s skills, abilities, and (especially) interests into consideration. We’ve spent a few days talking about how to recruit volunteers, but today’s post is about what to do once the volunteer has stepped through [...]
How to Recruit More Volunteers
So, now that we’ve looked at some of the usual suspects when it comes to volunteer recruitment for nonprofit organizations, let’s get a little more creative. This is a fun exercise to use to get the ideas flowing in a staff meeting or at a group lunch. You can use this technique over [...]
Volunteer Recruitment Basics
For many nonprofit organizations, volunteer recruitment is an ongoing struggle. The need to find qualified volunteers is great, but the tactics necessary to seek them can be a little elusive. Because sometimes the most obvious solutions to problems are also the most difficult to see, today we’re just going to recap a few [...]
Volunteer Recruitment Resources Online
This week is going to be all about volunteer recruitment for nonprofit organizations. Since we’re using this topic as one of the foundation blocks of the new Nonprofit Perspective blog, it seemed only fitting to begin with online resources. Thanks to Robert Brewer of Spokane Mountaineers Search and Rescue for compiling this list.
Volunteer Recruitment and Retention [...]