For more than ten years, Tyler Coad had been a volunteer in Ontario’s rugby community. From refereeing games every weekend from May to November, to coaching junior teams in Toronto and Barrie, Coad’s springs, summers, and falls were dedicated to...
This is the fourth in a series of four articles that explain how to attract and manage marketing professional volunteers. Because marketing differs by industry, your new volunteer consultant will need to learn what marketing issues are specific to the...
This is the third in a series of four articles that explains how to attract and manage marketing professional volunteers. Developing a good relationship with a professional marketing volunteer doesn't just happen overnight. Consider these tips for a positive relationship:...
This is the second in a series of four articles that explain how to attract and manage marketing professional volunteers. How to recruit a marketing volunteer In the first article, we figured out what marketing help you need. (For a...
This is the first in a series of four articles that explain how to attract and manage marketing professional volunteers. Professional volunteers versus volunteer consultants If your image of a professional volunteer is a someone who approached you for personal...
People are abandoning community. Today’s generation is apathetic. Volunteerism is dead. There. We said it. Now do we have your attention? We’ve all heard the same news: Charities are in trouble. People are disengaged. Volunteering is on the decline. Sponsorship...
For some organizations, a volunteer-based structure suits its mission just fine. Typically, these scenarios presume a grassroots or community-led initiative, whereby a group of people come together over a shared need and then work collaboratively to meet it. The simple,...
Every year more and more people traveling to underdeveloped countries try to incorporate some form of volunteering into their trips. This kind of volunteer vacation – or ‘voluntourism’ – has become one of the fastest growing forms of travel in...
According to the 2010 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, an impressive 58% of youth aged 15 to 24 are active volunteers. And while this is heartening news for many nonprofits, there might be even more volunteer potential in...
Volunteers face many challenges in organizing a successful nonprofit group. Balancing the growth and demands of an organization with family, career, and a personal life can be incredibly difficult. According to Tina Patterson, president of the Fraser Valley FiT Network,...
