Volunteer Handbook Templates
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
A Sample Handbook to Keep Your Volunteers Engaged and Informed
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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use
Get Fully Funded
MAY 4, 2021
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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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance
.orgSource
JANUARY 9, 2023
Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Volunteers join the board because they are inspired by your mission. Financial statements. Minutes of recent meetings.
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Top benefits for association leaders to connect with their volunteer members
Nimble AMS
APRIL 20, 2022
One of the simplest ways to boost volunteer engagement and retention at your association is to have leadership create meaningful connections with volunteers. When volunteers feel appreciated, they’re more likely to invest in your association, saving your staff precious time and resources. Volunteers donate.
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Volunteer Engagement | Strategies for Smart Organizations
Bloomerang
MARCH 30, 2023
Every interaction your volunteer has with your organization matters. From the moment they land on your website to sign up for an opportunity to when they check out of their shift, your volunteer’s experience can directly impact your organization’s ability to meet its goals. What is volunteer engagement?
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Holding an Event is NOT Your Whole Fundraising Strategy
The Fundraising Authority
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Heck, I’ve even written a handbook on a certain kind of fundraising event. I like fundraising events. I’ve managed (literally) hundreds of them during my fundraising career, from $500,000 galas to $10,000 hosted events and everything in between. So… I’m not one of those “fundraising events aren’t worth the effort” snobs.
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ShowerUP Solved Its BIG Problem — A Problem You Too May Have
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Despite these successes, ShowerUp’s BIG problem was organizing their 1,449 volunteers. It’s not as easy as it sounds,” says Paul, “because there’s a second related BIG problem: how to invite those volunteers to also be donors.” Paul also knew that today’s volunteers are tomorrow’s donors; he needed to nurture his greatest advocates.
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Create a Successful Volunteer Program that Inspires Volunteers to Follow Through
Get Fully Funded
MARCH 30, 2021
The key to a successful volunteer program is follow through. Maybe you’ve been there: Someone contacts your organization eager to volunteer. You can’t believe this amazing volunteer just dropped out of the sky… …Until you never hear from that volunteer again. You’re thrilled! So, how do you create that?
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VolunteerHub Partners with Leading HR Expertise Provider
Volunteer Hub
MARCH 10, 2021
VolunteerHub, the premier provider of volunteer management software, has partnered with Taskly, a leading HR expertise provider, to help nonprofits streamline HR operations. CEI), the parent company of VolunteerHub, has built the industry’s leading volunteer management software. Press Release. the provider of VolunteerHub. “As
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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle
sgEngage
APRIL 23, 2024
Here are a few tips to consider: Develop a whistleblower protection policy that encourages employees, volunteers, and other stakeholders to come forward with credible information about any illegal practices or violations. If you receive a whistleblower complaint, it is crucial to maintain transparency and accountability.
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3 Tips To Make A Fulfilling Virtual Volunteer Experience
Nonprofits Source
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Volunteers are the backbone of your nonprofit. From running your programs on the ground to soliciting gifts for your online fundraising campaigns , your volunteers work around the clock to support your cause. Your remote volunteers move your mission forward, even when they’re miles away from where your nonprofit is located.
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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit
Get Fully Funded
MARCH 6, 2022
But, consider the alternative: continuing to do everything yourself, with sporadic support from Board members and volunteers. Look, even when you have a wonderful team of volunteers, it is hard to grow your organization and realize its full potential without paid staff. Employee handbook. It’s a lot to take on! At the beginning!
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How can small nonprofits be successful in strategic human resources management?
ASU Lodestar Center
JULY 21, 2022
Small nonprofits are also heavily reliant on volunteers, creating the need for a sophisticated HR system that can be applied to both volunteers and paid employees. A group of this type creates opportunities for growth in SHRM formalizations through peer-reviews and collaborations on policies, employee handbooks and hiring practices.
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NTEN embraces a 4-day week
NTEN
JUNE 29, 2023
Today our team is spread out across six states and three time zones, with various childcare pick-up times and varying partner, medical, and volunteering schedules. First, this was discussed in reviewing our employee handbook, where our benefits and expectations are outlined. Maybe fifth on the list?
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18 Free Non-profit Webinars For June 2015
Wild Apricot
JUNE 3, 2015
In June, you can choose from among 18 free webinars that offer up a host of insights, ideas and practical tips on topics like: Leveraging your Database, Gaining Microsoft donations, Avoiding Mobilegeddon and Creating Volunteer Handbooks. Take a look at our list!
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Vision Statement vs Mission Statement for Nonprofits
NonProfit Hub
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Your vision should exist outside a frame on the wall or a page in the handbook. Don’t get me wrong, documenting your mission and vision statements is important, but in an ideal world, it’s something written on people’s hearts, as well as in their orientation handbook. So, how do we maintain the vision? Call out excellence.
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What is a Vision Statement? Why Nonprofits Need Them
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 8, 2021
Your vision should exist outside a frame on the wall or a page in the handbook. Don’t get me wrong, documenting your mission and vision statements is important, but in an ideal world, it’s something written on people’s hearts, as well as in their orientation handbook. So, how do we maintain the vision? Call out excellence.
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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?
ASU Lodestar Center
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
According to Classy’s Donor Retention Handbook , monthly donors were five times more valuable to nonprofits as they gave 440% more throughout their lives than one-time donors. David is a current program supervisor for the CASA program in Lane County, whose mission it is to supply children in the child welfare system volunteer advocates.
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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2017
Note from Beth: The Mobilization Lab at Greenpeace recently commissioned and released this report, Beyond the First Click: How Today’s Volunteers Build the Power of Movements and NGOS. Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits – Guest Post. You can download the complete report here.
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4 Strategies to Increase Donor Loyalty
Bloomerang
JULY 5, 2021
Share details about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities. Once you’ve established clear expectations, align your teams (staff and volunteers) to meet these objectives. At another organization where I worked, volunteer coordinators knew they were expected to convert a certain percentage of volunteers to donors.
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Use LinkedIn to Recruit Technical Volunteers!
Tech Soup
JULY 16, 2014
TechSoup has partnered with LinkedIn to provide the TechSoup community with free postings on LinkedIn's new Volunteer Marketplace. What Is the Volunteer Marketplace? The Volunteer Marketplace connects nonprofits with skilled professionals via volunteer postings. Sample postings on the Volunteer Marketplace.
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Red Cross Social Media Strategy/Policy Handbook: An Excellent Model
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 5, 2009
Wendy Harman at the Red Cross has been hard at work creating this draft version of the organization's Social Media Strategy Handbook. It goes on to lay out some guidelines for personal use if the employee or volunteer chooses to self-identify their affiliation with the Red Cross.
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Nonprofit Accounting Basics: 5 Fundamentals to Know
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 16, 2024
If staff members or volunteers ever spend their personal money on behalf of your nonprofit, this policy lays out the process for reimbursing them. Compile all of these policies in a handbook to serve as a reference for your employees. Expense reimbursement. Staff compensation.
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52 DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis
Tech Soup
MARCH 23, 2012
Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki. The Online Community and Social Media Team Wiki.
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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant
Get Fully Funded
APRIL 20, 2021
Many VAs can help with the more skilled and technical tasks required for communication, development, volunteer management, and program management. If you have a volunteer handbook or other documents with general information, provide them to your new VA. Start small. Many of these preparation details can fall to your VA.
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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Donor Experience Strategy
Bloomerang
JUNE 21, 2021
Anytime a donor visits your website, calls your reception desk, interacts with a program staffer, engages with you on social media, volunteers, or reads your blog, they’re shaping their view of you. At the same time, asking for philanthropic gifts should bring joy to everyone—staff and volunteers—working for your cause.
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Is It Time For A New Website?
Care2
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Your website is where your donors will come, where your activists and volunteers will engage, and where your campaigns will live. Who is in charge of making sure that your social media handbook is updated as new social networks emerge? This makes it easy for you to forget about your website - huge mistake! Your branding?
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How to Offer the Ultimate Employee Giving Experience
Double the Donation
JANUARY 28, 2022
Volunteer grants: Your company provides nonprofits where employees regularly volunteer with monetary grants. For example, you might hold a meeting, send a company-wide email, share a pamphlet, and add an explainer to your employee handbook. Then, be sure your staff knows where to go to seek additional details on the program!
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Social Media in the Board Room
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Their handbook provides a good blueprint for staff, affiliates and volunteer to serve as ambassadors for the organization on social networks. . If we're talking about scaling engagement of a nonprofit by allowing all staff and volunteers to participate, why should the board be exempt?
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Community Organizers Handbook: Launching a Resource for NetSquared Local and Beyond!
Tech Soup
AUGUST 20, 2010
Those local groups are organized by volunteers passionate about building community at the intersection of technology and social change. So, it's with great excitement that we announce the Community Organizers Handbook ! Tags: Online Activism Running Your Organization Social Networking Tech Planning Training Volunteers Web 2.0
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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 5, 2016
I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization. The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 30, 2009
One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I am so happy to be able to volunteer for bookshare.
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4 Ways to Use Pinterest to Encourage Corporate Volunteerism
Tech Soup
MAY 23, 2012
Causecast helps connect nonprofits (for free) with businesses, volunteers, and corporate donations. volunteer and giving programs and earn the goodwill of other Pinterest. How does Pinterest work as a tool for employee volunteer promotion? volunteering efforts, photos must be at the forefront of the initiative.
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Why Creating Space for Creative Time in the Nonprofit Workplace Improves Productivity
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
day of creative/volunteer leave each month. . Many told them that sometimes they just need some “creativity time,” that is to go to a museum or walk around. The organization formalized “creativity time” in its employees handbook and established a policy that staff take “creativity time” as half-day per month.
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25 Tips for Eating Locally on a Budget
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 2, 2010
Leda Meredith , Author, The Locavore's Handbook , and Ballet and Dinner From Scratch. Volunteer at farmers' markets and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) in exchange for free, or discounted produce. Mutton is cheaper than lamb. Use bone broth in dishes to get inexpensive nutrition without having to add meat to the dish.
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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 8, 2011
How did the handbook participants will be receiving come about? Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunte. It gives me the opportunity to impart what might help someone else be successful. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!
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80 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Amy Sample Ward
AUGUST 18, 2009
Resources include staff knowledge and comfort with different tools, experience levels of staff working with supports, volunteers, and the public, staff with time available, staff with appropriate job duties to include social media, available budget for training or workshops, etc. Review the POST Method.
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Receive Expert HR Advice by Phone or Email with New HR Solutions Partners Discount Program!
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Use this service for any of the following reasons: Get answers to human resources questions on subjects like payroll, compensation, benefits, training, recruiting, retaining staff, and managing volunteers. Comply with federal and state employment laws. Or supplement and support existing internal HR staff without hiring additional employees.
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New Speakers Announced for Cause Camp 2017
NonProfit Hub
DECEMBER 8, 2016
He is committed to making it ridiculously easy for everyone – board members, volunteers, and nonprofit staff – to get fundraising training. .” Fundraising affects everything from mission and vision to board governance to HR to marketing and community relations. Ask Without Fear!
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NCVO Ask the Expert: They asked me!
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 6, 2009
Including various social media tools in the way you do your work (whether it’s communications, fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment or service delivery) comes from strategically identifying the right tools for the right things. Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact.
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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19
Top Nonprofits
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
This includes characters that look and sound like the coworkers, volunteers, and constituents learners will encounter— if your entire team isn’t blonde-haired and blue-eyed, your characters shouldn’t be. Think of it this way: when you needed staff members to review your employee handbook, you created one that they will want to read.
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52 New on SSIR: The Power of Vision, Review of “The Pollyanna Principles”
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 11, 2009
. —– Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. There are still many questions I have and that I imagine all organizations, boards, volunteers, community members will have when they read the book.
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100 The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: Trust and Flexibility Work in the Workplace
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 2, 2014
Don’t get us wrong—we’re not saying to ditch your handbook altogether. The Takeaway: Too many nonprofits think they have to take whoever volunteers for a job. Sometimes, rules are made to be broken. Er, maybe just a little bit more flexible. We want people who don’t say ‘Oh, sh*t. I got to go to work today.”. But that’s not the case.
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How (and Why) to Develop a Social Media Handbook
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 27, 2008
After all, they control very little of the content produced in exhibitions, shared via programs, and expressed by public-facing staff and volunteers. Much as HR distributes an employee handbook that explains both regulations (i.e. That way, the wiki becomes both the handbook and a growing catalog of projects.
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