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Tips To Attract & Retain Skilled Volunteers That Grow Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

I use this analogy because I believe every nonprofit is sitting on untapped potential: the volunteer. It doesn’t matter on what scale your nonprofit runs, the goodwill and talents of volunteers are the jet fuel to growth. Too often volunteers become people offered the menial jobs. Put your ego aside. .

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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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Guest Post: The Iron Hug — Nurturing Relationships with Strong Leadership

Twenty Hats

From an outsider’s eye, volunteer management may look easy: just be friendly when volunteers come in and thank them when they leave; be thankful you even have volunteers coming in to do the mission-oriented work. I was with my organization long before I became the volunteer manager. If only our work was that simple.

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Prospect Research: 6 Things to Look For in a Potential Donor

The Fundraising Authority

Their donation history. Their volunteer history. For community-based nonprofits, try searching for local employers that offer giving programs, like matching gifts or volunteer grants. Their donation history. Their volunteer history. Volunteers serve as the heart of your organization.

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How to Use Prospect Research to Improve Your Asks: 5 Tips

Achieve

This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information about prospective major donors, helping your organization better understand and cultivate relationships with prospects. For example, a prospect’s political donations and volunteering history might reveal that they prioritize environmental causes.

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Donors Seek Stories, Info And Other Non-Ask Messaging

The NonProfit Times

In-kind donations were the most popular non-cash actions among all respondents, followed by volunteering time (41.4%), sharing a nonprofit’s social media posts (39.8%) or encouraging family members or friends to get involved with a local nonprofit (35.6%), although within the latter categories there were more significant generational disparities.

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5 Tips for Writing Better Volunteer Role Descriptions

Achieve

The same goes for your volunteers — they want to know exactly what they’re getting into before signing up for one of your volunteer opportunities. Your volunteer role descriptions let potential volunteers know about the skills required for the role, the tasks they’ll be completing, and other important logistical details.

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