Bloomerang

APRIL 21, 2025

The post Recruiting Volunteers Who Stick Around: Engagement, Stewardship, And Recognition Strategies appeared first on Bloomerang. Try positive gossip, where you brag about your volunteers to their peers, boss, and/or family members. What are your favorite tactics for volunteer recognition? Drop them in the comments section below!

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” It has been increasingly difficult to not only recruit and retain skilled staff, but just to get them to the interview process! ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 14, 2025

The donation from James and Patricia Anderson will back engineering programs and help recruit more faculty and Ph.D. students to the universitys engineering school.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At Candid, we get a lot of questions about nonprofit boardsfrom how to recruit members, to what their obligations are, to how executives can best work with them to advance their organizations missions and growth. Recruiting board members of colorin a meaningful, respectful way, not tokenizingcan be tricky. Ready to learn more?

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 13, 2025

Nonprofit executives Jordan Shenker and Keena Friday share tips on how to recruit and keep great staff members.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 12, 2025

They can learn how executives can support board leadership or, conversely, how executives choose to recruit boards that simply rubber stamp decision-making. But we seldom recruit board members who would be good at accountability or who understand this type of leadership as one of their roles.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 26, 2025

In this guide, well explore top tips for recruiting a robust volunteer community, as well as suggestions to help you manage and retain your volunteers. Most businesses know that its easier to retain existing customers than to attract new ones, and the same logic applies to recruiting volunteers. Lets get started!

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Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

JULY 6, 2025

His firm emphasizes the need for nonprofits to prioritize soft skills when recruiting new staff. Rob interviews William Vanderbloemen who shares his experience about starting a cause-based search firm. He also highlights the significance of clearly articulating the organization’s mission and values to attract the right talent.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

From securing your vendor to recruiting enough volunteers , keeping track of all these elements is essential. 5) Recruit Volunteers. Many nonprofit organizations will need to recruit additional volunteers to work their fundraising events. Medical, Power Outage) Will you have a specific itinerary?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2025

Image by Joel Muniz from Unsplash Idealist and VolunteerMatch, two nonprofits dominant in the space of digital volunteer recruitment, are merging, according to an announcement this week.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Recruit potential board members. Act as community connectors and partners The business functions Civic 50 companies formally support with community engagement include diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, supplier diversity, marketing/PR, purchasing, employee health and wellness, and recruitment.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Leveraging Technology For Recruitment and Retention Technology can simplify hiring and keep teams connected. Use recruiting tools to streamline the hiring process and employee management platforms to boost productivity. Remote work is here to stay, so make sure your tech setup supports seamless collaboration.

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Ann Green

MARCH 10, 2025

However, recruiting and retaining these essential team members is not always easy. Use these onboarding best practices to set your new hires up for lasting success. By Debbie Willis Every new employee brings passion, talent, and a fresh perspective to your nonprofit.

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

So, what can nonprofits do to recruit these essential volunteersand retain them? Recruiting and retaining volunteers is a year-round endeavor beyond National Volunteer Month. This National Volunteer Month, we hope these resources will help your nonprofit recruit and retain committed volunteers to better serve your community.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

Debbie from Cat Tales Wildlife Center Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Challenges Volunteer recruitment — and retaining those volunteers — has changed dramatically since COVID. There are far too many options available for individuals who want to volunteer with nonprofit organizations and give back to their communities. .”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Volunteer Recruitment: A QR code displayed on banners at a maker’s market or fundraising event can simplify sign-up for interested people. Driving A-thon Participation: Whether a bake-a-thon or walk-a-thon, yard signs with QR codes in high-traffic areas make registration effortless.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Recruit a match from a single donor or group of donors. Assess your performance to your goals: recruiting new donors, upgrades, average gift size, and total gifts. There’s so much you can do now to plan winning strategies for GivingTuesday and end of year. Just follow my timeline below to create your year-end fundraising plan!

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 6, 2025

One powerful tactic to consider is recruiting member ambassadors. There are many ways ambassadors can benefit your nonprofit, such as: Recruiting new members. When recruiting employees for your nonprofit, you likely focus on finding individuals who care deeply about your mission and feel invested in your organizations success.

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Ann Green

APRIL 21, 2025

The same is true for event invitations or recruiting volunteers. Dont cast a wide net Its important to send your messages to the right audience and your audience isnt everyone. Youll have more luck with a fundraising appeal when you send it to past donors or people who have a connection to your cause.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 8, 2025

Support volunteer recruitment: Many organizations give a small bonus to a staff person who recruits a new staff member. These same organizations should give a small bonus to staff who recruit volunteers. One simple tweak: Many foundations ask grantees to fill out a form that asks demographic questions about staff.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the Fall of 2023, organizations top-rated by their peers advanced to a second round of review by an external Evaluation Panel recruited for relevant experience to the cause and underwent a final round of due diligence. There were 6,353 applications for the Open Call.

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Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Some organizations may not want to require a financial commitment so they can recruit members who may not have a lot of money but know the community and issues well. A board agreement may spell out an expected dollar amount or percentage of the nonprofits’ annual fundraising goal, or make contributions voluntary.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 14, 2025

Trust Is Essential All our co-leaders have been recruited internally. Moving to an impactful new model may be costly, but we believe, in this case, it is worthwhile and this reason shouldnt prevent leaders from exploring co-leadership as solutions can be found.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2025

Institutionality: Students almost always play an important role in recruiting and coordinating activities, but NBFPs have a choice about how much overall program design and partner relationship management is student-run, part-time supported by staff, or led by a dedicated director and faculty sponsor.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Jessica Macy from The Do Good Collective Recruit a Serious and Engaged ‘Get ‘er Done’ Board Most of all, nonprofits need engaged, “Get ‘er Done” members willing to join committees and help the staff accomplish operational issues. They had recruited a nearly all-new board in critical professions.

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Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From recruiting teachers of color to advocating for the release of political prisoners and wrongfully incarcerated people and supporting immigrants transition into their new lives in the United States, we trust the everyday leaders who bridge the gaps in our social systems and expand the net for those who might otherwise fall through the cracks.

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2025

Those efforts range from organizations archiving data sets , government websites and resources, and critical public health and human rights resources , to offering job listings and recruitment support networks for displaced teams and staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Below are five proven strategies to help nonprofit organizations market volunteer opportunities and recruit passionate individuals dedicated to driving their missions forward. Sharing their stories allows potential recruits to see the tangible rewards of volunteering.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You can always recruit volunteers to support your donor stewardship efforts, taking the pressure off your busy staff members as needed. Remember that major donors , in particular, will want to interact one-on-one with your nonprofit executives before they make a significant contribution.

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Perhaps you’ve recruited other staff or volunteers to help you. Be ready to thank your donors as soon as you receive a donation Every single donor, no matter how much they’ve given or whether they donated online, gets a thank you card/letter mailed to them or receives a phone call. You need to do the same thing when you thank your donors.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For more than a decade, Yasmeen Rolland enjoyed her job working in education and student recruitment, but something was missing. She felt a growing desire to make a greater impact in people’s lives.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2025

For nearly 20 years, our team at On-Ramps has been helping nonprofit organizations recruit mid- to senior-level leaders. We talk to both hiring managers and job seekers all day, every day.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since they already believe deeply in your cause and have positively responded to recruitment efforts , volunteers are naturally predisposed to support your organization financiallyif you approach them correctly. Volunteers are some of your nonprofits most valuable supporters, dedicating their time and talents to further your mission.

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Ann Green

MARCH 17, 2025

Recruit board members to make thank you phone calls. This is why its important to engage with your new donors and I hope youve done that with your most recent new year-end donors. Create a welcome plan that includes a series of messages for new donors. This is a proven strategy that results in donors giving again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2025

Launching a peer-to-peer campaign begins with recruiting some of your most fervent supporters to organize personal campaigns on your organizations behalf. Peer-to-peer fundraising relies on supporters reaching out to their family, friends, and colleagues and utilizing their network of connections to help meet the fundraising goal.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Before you start making Asks, you have to assemble your Board, recruit your initial volunteers, set up an accounting system, establish a website, and tackle a few other tasks. Your path starts at Stage 1, which is just having the idea and deciding to go for it. In doing so, you keep your donors interested through frequent communication.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI coaches, tutors, navigators, caseworkers, and assistants could overcome the very real challengeslike cost, recruitment, training, and retentionthat have made access to vital forms of high-quality human support perennially hard to scale. But scaling bots that simulate human support presents new risks.

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