Tag Archives: volunteer

“Scoop it Forward” with Summertime Volunteering

July 20, 2010 – 11:13 pm

This delicious opportunity came across our desk from Volunteer Match. Consider this added incentive for your volunteers! Brownie Chew Gooder? This summer, VolunteerMatch, Ben & Jerry’s and Target and  want you to get involved in your community, and we’re sweetening the deal to prove it. Scoop It Forward, a summer-long promotion, invites you to discover [...]

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The Hidden Workforce: How to Run Effective Volunteer Programs

July 14, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Thanks to Melanie Wilson, Director of Research and Public Policy at the New England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services for forwarding news about a new report and tool, The Hidden Workforce: Are you ready for help? Since the early 1990′s, experts have been telling the nonprofit world that an advancing wave of retiring [...]

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Watch Now: Take Care of Your Volunteers and They’ll Take Care of You

June 14, 2010 – 5:41 pm

Volunteers provide vital human resources to our nonprofits—but do we treat them with the value and respect they deserve? People who choose to contribute their time to our organizations do so for many reasons but fundamentally they want to make a difference. Whether it’s for a short period of time (such as tagging photos from Haiti), planning an event or a life time of dedication to one issue or organization, there are “tried and true” ways of recruiting and retaining volunteers for our work.

Common Good Vermont hosted Attract and Keep Your Volunteers in Franklin County on June 14th with an experienced panel reporting on their version of “best practices” to help nonprofits make the most of their community based volunteers.

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