Many families, busy with jobs, school, chores, extracurricular activities, or even watching TV in different rooms of the house, find they don’t have the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time together. Volunteering as a family can bring families...
Knowledge loss is inevitable when a volunteer leaves your organization – and when somebody has been in a volunteer role for a long time, they can take a lot of knowledge with them. Not just the outlined tasks and responsibilities...
Interested in learning more on this topic? We partnered with Volunteer Canada for a free webinar - watch the recording here. 1. They have Boards of Directors. A nonprofit's board of directors and officers (many of whom are volunteers) could...
On July 20, Volunteer Canada and Investors Group will present a free webinar on the expanding landscape of volunteer recognition. While recognizing volunteers continues to be an important dimension of volunteer engagement, Volunteer Canada’s new research highlights that community involvement...
Interested in learning more on this topic? We've partnered with Volunteer Canada for a free webinar on June 22 on how to engage employer-supported volunteers. Can't make the live session? Register anyway and you'll get the full recording by email....
I recently attended a session of volunteer managers from various nonprofit organizations, when the question of engaging volunteers who are blind or partially sighted came up. I was excited to talk about all the different roles people with vision loss...
Here’s a statistic many of you may not be aware of: nearly 17 million Canadians have done volunteer work during their lives. Stated differently: about 59% of Canadians aged 15 and older, have volunteered. That’s a lot of volunteering by...
Volunteer programs need to adapt to changing trends and environments - or else be prepared to struggle with the recruitment and retention of volunteers. Volunteer programs should be dynamic and not static; they should focus on both the needs...
Want to learn more on this topic? We partnered with the author for a free webinar - watch the recording here. Volunteers. If you run a nonprofit organization, they are very likely mission critical. In Canada, over 19 million volunteers...
In your volunteer program, it is likely that you have a number of policies and procedures that ensure things run smoothly. Maybe you created the policies yourself, or they’ve been in place for years, or it’s someone else’s responsibility to...