Creating a volunteer handbook

This article provides a step-by-step process for creating a volunteer handbook for your organization.

Through the volunteers’ eyes: What volunteers want nonprofits to know about effectively involving them

Happy National Volunteer Week! In the midst of the festivities, let’s pause for a quieter, more reflective way to recognize our volunteers…by listening to them as they share their thoughts and ideas.

Career Q&A: Choosing the right volunteers for your organization

This article explains how to choose the best people to join your organization as volunteers and board members.

“Mandatory volunteering”: What’s in a name?

While “mandatory volunteering” is an oxymoron, it is a growing trend that is worth watching.

Shifting views of retirement and the implications for volunteer-involving organizations

As baby boomers edge toward retirement, there is lots of speculation about how they will spend their retirement years. Baby boomers have done many things differently than the generations before them – will they do retirement differently, too?

Best practices for engaging youth as volunteers (part four)

This article lists tips for successfully integrating youth volunteers into your organization.

Best practices for engaging youth as volunteers (part three)

This article includes tips for successfully inteegrating youth volunteers into your organization.

Best practices for engaging youth as volunteers (part two)

This article includes tips for successfully integrating youth volunteers into your organization.

Governance Q&A: Why organizations don’t always draw on the knowledge of their volunteers

A volunteer with four years of experience doesn’t feel that their insight and knowledge is being utilized.

Best practices for engaging youth as volunteers (part one)

How volunteer managers can prepare their organizations for youth volunteers looking to fulfill their mandatory volunteer requirement for high school graduation.