Volunteer Hub

MARCH 11, 2022

Is your volunteer program prepared? If your nonprofit is like many others, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and adjusting your volunteer program has been challenging. Many organizations have had to adjust to restrictions, reduce volunteers, and provide virtual volunteer opportunities in order to continue to serve their communities.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Attentional all leaders of volunteers: We are pleased to help promote the annual 2024 Volunteer Management Progress Report, VolunteerPro’s ninth annual survey! Your valuable input is crucial to discovering the most current trends in volunteer engagement. Let’s chart the course for the future together!

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

Case in point: one area of data management where many non-profits fall woefully short is in the organization of volunteer assets. And yet a huge majority—93 percent—report that “the most important functionality lets staff track volunteer activities and the number of hours worked.”

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? Then there’s your workforce—both paid and volunteer. What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. But are you ready?

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The inertia of decades of existence often precludes a data-informed state, instead relying on anecdote, trusting in the gut feeling of longtime employees or volunteers, and the way things have always been done. It remains all too common for associations to ignore vital data points as they strategize for the future.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Whether you display images of your volunteers hard at work or your beneficiaries joyfully receiving your services, photos can put a face to your organization’s work so audiences connect more deeply with it. Add the following types of multimedia content to your site to make it more visually interesting for users: Photos. Infographics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. A common example of this that I hear often is with volunteer engagement. An organization has, for example, 20 volunteers, and they want to track the hours contributed, the impact on programs, and so forth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

70% want to know about volunteer opportunities. How often do Millennials volunteer? The primary obstacle to volunteering being a lack of time. 61% said they want to volunteer with friends and family, 56% said they want an organized group. 44% said they wanted to volunteer on their own. People want transparency.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The nice folks at Wolfram Blog have created a set of charts identifying how people talk on Facebook as they age. That’s not too surprising but some of the other charts might be of interest to you and your organization. If you knew more about the way your constituents, volunteers, trustees, donors, etc.,

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

And our most ardent volunteers are typically people who love sharing knowledge. These are other areas to explore: Professional networks—Put out the word among board, committee, and other volunteer groups. Document both employee and volunteer responsibilities. After all, we are the home of professional experts. This is critical.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Here’s a chart from a Forrester report that identifies what collaboration tools information workers from companies of 100+ employees use. Chart of Collaboration Tools used by Information Workers. Are you using social media to collaborate with your staff, volunteers, donors, consumers? If so, please let us know.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. An organizational chart. Volunteers join the board because they are inspired by your mission. Ask a senior volunteer to describe how the organization enriched their professional life.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year. To share your mission with a wide audience. To generate new donations, retain donors and grow partnerships.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

You can text message donors information about fundraising campaigns, events, emergencies, and volunteer opportunities – just to name a few. For example, Children International : Also, provided your program vs. operating expense ratio is good ( 75%/25% ), create a simple pie chart graphic that illuminates your program and operating costs.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 3, 2025

It facilitates discussions that foster consensus among board members, staff, and volunteers. With a shared vision, the organization can confidently chart its course. Neglecting to engage key stakeholders such as staff, volunteers, donors, and community members can lead to blind spots in the planning process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Tap into Volunteer Networks – Encourage volunteers to participate in your campaign by helping with outreach, social media promotion, or event planning. Volunteers can significantly expand your campaign’s reach without additional costs.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The board should be charting a path forward by deciding whether your organization will be growing, shrinking, or maintaining the status quo in terms of programs and services. 100% board giving sets a good example and shows the staff, volunteers and other donors that the board is committed to the cause and to fundraising for the cause.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet will give readers with vision impairments access to fully described images which is especially important for textbooks that contain lots of charts, graphs, and maps. Bookshare is seeking volunteers who can apply their expertise in specific subject matters to describe images.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. Take care of your mental health and look out for the well-being of those in your care; staff or volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. We asked survey respondents whether or not they felt they had attracted new constituents (donors, members, volunteers, clients, or event attendees) through their Facebook page. Why is that?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Your constituents are more likely to volunteer and donate if you use clear communication around goals. Try including photos of your members volunteering, pictures from your annual conference, or images of your latest advocacy project. Use infographics and charts to engage readers and highlight your most important information.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many nonprofits work in tandem with volunteers to move their mission forward and keep expenses down. Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

As a nonprofit you can use this style presentation to share program information, use of donations, training staff and volunteers, advocacy, and really any topic that you can think up. It causes the audience to pay attention.

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2025

Download the full pdf now , or visit mrbenchmarks.com for key findings and literally 115 charts about digital fundraising, marketing, advocacy, and more. Among nonprofits with paid influencer campaigns, 60% used those partnerships for fundraising, and 65% for advocacy or volunteer asks.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As you design key aspects of your website (such as your homepage, about page, and donation page) consider using photos of real people, including the people you serve, staff, event attendees, and volunteers. Charts and graphs work best when paired with writing that contextualizes them. Show impact with well-designed graphics.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

Mobilize your volunteer group. Ask your volunteers if their employer would be a good event sponsor fit—or have them use their professional networks to discover a new sponsorship opportunity. Have your member volunteers personally in vite co-workers or industry colleagues? and follow up with personalized thank you notes. .

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Interactive and dynamic charts will support a new visual vocabulary for your organization, allowing you to analyze data relationships around correlation, distribution, magnitude, rank, deviation, and change over time.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

This kind of donor is ready to give and shows this through active participation at events, volunteering, responding to communications, and more. Perhaps volunteers from a past event or donors who were at your last silent auction. They’re also willing to donate to your cause, having previously shown commitment to your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

After the small group discussions, we had volunteers from each group provide a short report back to the full room of some of the highlights or lingering questions that came out of the conversation. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

After the small group discussions, we had volunteers from each group provide a short report back to the full room of some of the highlights or lingering questions that came out of the conversation. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

In this section, talk about whether you have employees or are all-volunteer. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work? Note who carries out your programs and services and whether you use mostly volunteers or whether you have paid staff in place. More staff or volunteers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This post is a round up of how to find volunteers and others to assist with the nitty gritty data skills. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2024

Stopped volunteering. The chart below shows the latest fundraising results from Giving USA. How are my older lapsed donors a literal giving goldmine, you ask? It’s expected that they’re lapsing. Think about your grandparents’ activities before you lost them. They likely slowed down. Stopped donating to charity. How strong?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This may be other organizations/partners, donors, volunteers, fundraisers, event attendees, etc. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. To get started, first brainstorm and identify the various groups or segments of your community.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 26, 2022

When a volunteer or new employee jumps into a new role that requests digital expertise, there is a natural learning curve that must be climbed. Regardless of whether you’re a volunteer, new hire, AmeriCorps member, or anywhere in between, it can be stressful and confusing to figure out where to start. .

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