All tagged volunteer management
Whether you celebrate Volunteer Month or Week, April is a time for the nonprofit sector to focus on those who give of their time freely. Volunteers provide an enormous benefit to the sector. For example, volunteerism offers a value of over $1.8 billion dollars to the U.S economy. However, you might find it hard to recruit volunteers and use them well. Spark Group provides four best practices for getting the most out of your volunteer program.
Volunteers play a vital role in a nonprofit organization. Volunteers play a role in most organizations’ governance, administration, fundraising, programming, promotion, and advocacy. Therefore, volunteers are a huge part of an organization. However, volunteer management can often feel clunky and piecemealed. To turn your volunteer management into a natural system of your organization, you should focus on the four areas of volunteer management: recruitment, tracking, engagement, and retention.
If volunteers have a critical role to play in the health of your organization, it is equally important that you take the steps necessary to protect the health and well-being of your volunteers – especially as groups begin to shift away from working virtually, and begin to gather in person again.
