Volunteer Management Talk

Is this the biggest issue holding back the volunteer engagement profession? – Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd

Seven things to consider when looking for volunteer engagement software – Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd

The Senate today approved legislation sponsored by Sen. Cynthia A. Coyne to allow seniors to put their time and skills to good use helping their cities and towns, while reducing their property taxes. The legislation (2021-S 0103), which will now go to the House of Representatives, would authorize cities and towns to establish programs to […]

Law enforcement officers and volunteer dog handlers are working together to improve the way Flathead County's search dogs are trained, deployed and funded through a new nonprofit organization.

As leaders of volunteer engagement, are you actively involved in ‘building back better’ discussions that are taking place in your post-pandemic organisation? Have you been invited to be part of these conversations? Have you asked if these conversations are happening, whether you can be involved, and if you can help lead them? Rob Jackson and Erin R. Spink ask these questions and more in this Points of View, and explain why these questions and your responses are especially important to…

Mr Ibrahim Halidu, the Assembly Member for Alajo North Electoral Area in the Ayawaso Central Municipal, has appealed to the electorates to bring back the

Amateur nature recorders are providing vital data on beetles, soldierflies and a host of lesser-known insects

This is Citizen Verizon in action, providing educational resources to increase confidence and awareness in the COVID-19 vaccine.

We must change the perception of volunteerism, so it is no longer viewed as a transactional model of helping, but rather an act of making a difference and addressing key issues in society, writes Bruce Argyle from Bendigo Bank.

Companies have a unique and critical role to play as partners in fostering a thriving society. As both business and civic leaders, companies are responsible for serving the diverse needs of employees, customers, community partners, investors and neighbors. At their best, they share their resources and act as trusted counsel, collaborators and problem solvers. Every…

Benchmarking rarely encourages better Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices! Just here me out. “what are other companies doing to improve their CSR program?”, “what issues do they focus on?”, “how are they volunteering in their local communities?”, “how do our peers create programming with community partners?”, these are all legitimate questions to ask when creating, redesigning and improving a CSR program. To answer these questions, many companies engage in benchmarking to…

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Understanding volunteer motivation factors will help your organization effectively recruit the right participants for volunteer positions.

Today, I want to take a more in-depth look at how anywhere operations and AR/VR will disrupt the nonprofit sector.

We invest in people. But we don’t often measure our investment’s growth. We’re too overwhelmed with daily work to stop and take stock of our positive influence on volunteers and o…

While 2020 bore witness to a hastening of the effects of some key long-term structural trends in volunteering, 2021 affords us a chance to rebuild through greater collaboration, cooperation and innovation, writes Mark Pearce, in the latest in our series of social sector predictions for 2021.