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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. A volunteer handbook gives volunteers the information they need about the organization and its mission, and answers any common questions they may have.

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Recognition and the Power of Connecting

VQ Strategies

The topic was Recognition, wisely timed to inspire new ideas in advance of the upcoming spring National Volunteer Week. While this was timed in anticipation of April’s National Volunteer Week, the table-by-table report outs revealed clear agreement across all discussions that recognition is, in fact, a year-round activity.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. Here are my slides from the VMNC: Twitter Basics for Engaging Volunteers. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Presentation Slides.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Team Unity: All staff and volunteers should understand and adhere to the same AI guidelines. Recognising the risk this posed for public interaction, they repurposed the chatbot for internal use. Openness fosters trust and reassures your supporters about the handling of their data.

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

Ali was expected to make a training video from home on how to extract a bone marrow sample — without an examining room, without equipment, and most especially without an animal. I was reminded of Ali’s video last week when I led a class for volunteer managers on creating virtual volunteer roles. The challenge here is the cost.

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How to Use Trial & Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How to Use Trial and Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit As the world and how we interact with it changes, response to fundraising efforts evolves, too. Be sure to ask for input from your team, including volunteers—you might be surprised by the creative suggestions that come up when you get everyone involved.

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Research Friday: Arizona’s seniors: The latest profile of volunteering behavior

ASU Lodestar Center

Recent research findings by Christopher Einolf and Susan Chambre (2011) provided empirical evidence of the strong influence of both formal and informal social networks on volunteering. They found that individuals actively involved in activities with social organizations were more likely to volunteer. of the sample was female.