For a year now, Vicky Mah and Jillian Walsh, both second-year medical students at the University of Calgary, have been volunteering their time running the student-run medical clinic at the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre in the city's downtown core....
"We need more volunteers!" is right up there with "We need more money!" in terms of the nonprofit sector's hot topics, most common gripes, and most often heard pleas. Endlessly discussed as a challenge in organizations, large and small, the...
Why is volunteer recognition so important? Why do we leave it to once a year to recognize our volunteers? How can we make a difference throughout the year? These are key questions we should be asking ourselves as we plan...
Evaluating volunteer programs is essential to benchmarking our progress in providing the best service to our stakeholders, but it is also an area of the volunteer management cycle that we tend to skip over. Sometimes you just don?t have the...
The topic of policies and procedures is not one that most administrators of volunteers find exciting. It is probably one area of volunteer management that most struggle with, and with no wonder. Policies are certainly not exciting or "sexy", they...
This article is my ode to David Letterman. Let's call it the list article. Where are the top 10 places to find volunteers? I will make it more interesting and give you the top ten most common sources to search...
Is your volunteer program successfully welcoming and integrating new Canadians? According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, between 240,000 and 260,000 new immigrants will arrive in Canada in 2011. Our country continues to be a major recipient of new immigrants worldwide...
When meeting others, we are often asked "What do you do for a living?" For most people the answer is clear. There are so many positions that make sense, but I find I hesitate before answering this question. Am I...
So many nonprofit organizations face challenges turning members into active volunteers. Here are ten steps for effective volunteer engagement. 1. Member needs The first and most important step is to identify your members' needs, including those of the volunteers in...
Culture Matters is an online curriculum specifically developed by the Peace Corps to help newly accepted members acquire some of the knowledge and skills they will need to work successfully and respectfully in other cultures. It's not just about cultural...
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