Resources tagged with term(s) "Retention"

EnCorps: Tried and true resources for member development

Find the field-tested resources you need to recruit and train AmeriCorps and VISTA members. This site assists program staff in finding and sharing proven practices for recruiting and developing...
We Miss You Letter #2

This sample letter from the Nature Coast Volunteer Center of Citrus County asks volunteers who haven't reported hours in the last year to come back to volunteering.
We Miss You Letter

This sample letter from the Nature Coast Volunteer Center of Citrus County asks volunteers who haven't reported hours in the last 3 months to come back to volunteering.
We Want You Back Letter

This sample letter from the Nature Coast Volunteer Center of Citrus County tells volunteers who haven't reported hours during the last quarter that they are missed and asks them to come back to...
Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers

This workbook shares approaches to volunteer recruitment, management, and retention that are successful in rural settings. It also contains one-of-a-kind tools needed by rural organizations to...
Stanford Social Innovation Review: The New Volunteer Workforce

Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers, but more than one-third of those who volunteer one year do not donate their time the next year. To remedy this situation, nonprofit leaders must develop a...
Next Generation of Nonprofit Sector Leadership

This study, commissioned by The Forbes Funds, explores the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations as they seek to replenish the resources currently provided by retiring Baby Boomers (both...
365 Ideas for Recruiting, Retaining, Motivating, and Rewarding Your Volunteers: A Complete Guide for Nonprofit Organizations

Contains hundreds of quick and inexpensive ways to motivate, challenge, and reward volunteers. Uses real-life, proven examples and case studies that cover topics like creating a recruitment...
Volunteer Toolkit: Helping You Achieve Effective Volunteer Management Abilities

Volunteer Toolkit: Helping You Achieve Effective Volunteer Management Abilities, from Lutheran Disaster Response from Illinios, is designed to provide several helpful ideas and effective management...
Recruiting for Retention

These strategies and downloadable tools from the EnCorps collection of resources will help you make an applicant-position match that will last.
Celebrating volunteer achievements: a balanced approach

It is the task of the volunteer manager to both educate executives and board members about the vital roles volunteers play in an organization, and to empower volunteers by recognizing their service...
Giving constructive feedback to volunteers: a process-oriented approach

Offering useful feedback is an art that takes practice and good humor. This effective practice focuses on providing feedback to volunteers that will not provoke a defensive response, and was...
Count On Me! 501 Ideas on Retaining, Recognizing and Rewarding Volunteers

Offers ways to achieve greater success in gaining and maintaining volunteer numbers. Get ideas for designing a recognition program that will maximize your volunteer retention rate, avoid all the...
Weathering the Storm: Volunteerism in an Economic Crisis

This webinar looked at the current economic climate, its effect on increased need for social services and the impact on specific communities. During this session participants tackled some common...
Wednesday Agenda: AmeriCorps National Best Practices Conference 2009

View the agenda (PDF), or view the resources available from Tuesday, or Thursday.
Recognizing volunteers throughout the service year

The most effective volunteer recognition happens not just annually at a banquet or a luncheon, but throughout the year. This effective practice from the University of Illinois Extension 4-H Web site...
Take Root: Volunteer Management Guidebook

This guidebook was developed to help national service programs explore the basics of volunteer management. It is meant to be a user-friendly resource for developing volunteer recruitment, retention,...
Facilitating volunteering benefits for people with disabilities

People with disabilities volunteer for many of the same reasons as those without disabilities — to forge new relationships, gain personal satisfaction and social status, hone marketable skills, and...
Overcoming barriers and creating opportunities for people with developmental disabilities in national service programs

People with disabilities are actively engaged in volunteering and providing services in their communities. However, this hasn’t always been the case, and individuals with disabilities have had to...
Volunteering in America Resources

Through its studies on Volunteering In America, the Corporation for National and Community Service continues to deliver increasingly detailed reports on the trends and habits in volunteering across...
Resources for Volunteer Managers

Information on all aspects of volunteer management, including getting your organization ready to involve volunteers, volunteer screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, legal issues/risk...
Retention

How do you keep your members, volunteers, or students engaged in service, not only putting in their time, but satisfied that both their successes and struggles are recognized and appreciated by...
Keep Those Volunteers Around

Offers ways to excite, inspire, motivate, and retain current volunteers. Filled with easy-to-read, practical information on how to use humor in the workplace, give fast feedback, be a "coach,"...
How to Take Care of You So You Can Take Care of Others: A Survival Guide for Human Service Workers and Volunteers!

Describes the author's personal journey back to health after a brush with death and uses that experience as a roadmap to all caregivers and human service professionals seeking to balance their own...
Best of All: The Quick Reference Guide to Effective Volunteer Involvement

Contains hundreds of quick, ready-to-apply tips for increasing an organization's capacity to find, involve, and retain excellent volunteers. Intended specifically for volunteer leaders who...