“Volunteers aren’t paid, not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” Anonymous

Below you will find many great articles about nonporofit volunteer management written by our wonderful community bloggers. Topics range from using social media to engage and grow your volunteer base to how to show your volunteers you care using online marketing and everything in between. If you are interested in writing a post about this topic please contact us to discuss.

Your Five-Part Plan for Integrating Tech-Savvy Volunteers
By December 14, 2012

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The dilemma: You know you need to integrate new technologies into your marketing, operations, and community management, but the nonprofit’s trifecta of practical obstacles—lack of time, training, and funds—has never felt more daunting. The solution: The five-part plan below. It’s a process, and like all other nonprofit endeavors, it takes ...

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Appreciation Begins Before the Volunteering
By April 26, 2012

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With the words “volunteer appreciation” one of the first things to spring to mind are myriad ways to say “thank you” to someone who has donated their precious time and labor to benefit your nonprofit organization.  That’s a good thing; you can’t say thank you too much, and if you ...

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Virtual Volunteering w/guest Shari Ilsen – #NPtalk 4/25/12
By April 23, 2012

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These days, it can seem like we live our entire lives online. Believe it or not, we’re also seeing this in the volunteering world as nonprofits are starting to leverage the growing trend of virtual volunteering. While virtual volunteering didn’t start with the Internet, it certainly has grown with it, ...

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Heavy-Duty Volunteers: Getting Serious Work Done
By April 11, 2012

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When you think volunteer, you may picture someone with paintbrush in hand, tackling a one-day service project; or a tutor, reading to kids on weekends. Volunteerism is quickly breaking out of those chains! Corporate volunteering is moving to the front burner with the gain of buzzwords like corporate social responsibility, ...

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Meet #VolunTweet, a New Way to Find Volunteer Opportunities on Social Media
By March 15, 2012

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Meet #VolunTweet, a New Way to Find Volunteer Opportunities on Social Media We’d like to introduce you to #VolunTweet, a new project by VolunteerMatch to enrich the discussion of volunteer opportunities on social media sites like Twitter. What is #VolunTweet? #VolunTweet is a new way to promote great volunteer opportunities on ...

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What Nonprofits Can (and Should) Do with LinkedIn’s New Volunteer Field
By February 24, 2012

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Awhile ago we wrote a short overview of the new field LinkedIn has added to its professional profiles, “Volunteer Experience & Causes.” The new field enables individuals like your volunteers to enhance their professional profiles online. It’s important to recognize, however, that it also presents opportunities for nonprofits to develop and ...

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