According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 26.7 percent of the population volunteered in 2006. Unfortunately, while the population is increasing, the percentage of Americans who volunteer is decreasing each year. What this means is that you must hang onto and keep your volunteers happy and coming back, perhaps bringing new volunteer recruits with them. This new book is packed with hundreds of simple and inexpensive ways to motivate, challenge, and reward your volunteers. Volunteers today need constant reinforcement and recognition, and here is how to do it. With real life, proven examples and case studies from actual nonprofit organizations, you can use this book daily to boost morale and productivity and find fundraising activities. This is your opportunity to build an organization that people love to volunteer, and you can do so by using these quick, effective, humorous, innovative, and simply fun solutions. Make your organization a happy place to volunteer, and reap the benefits.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Erin E. Shaw
Format:Paperback
The first thing that comes to mind while reading 365 Ideas for Recruiting, Retaining, Motivating and Rewarding Your Volunteers is the tone of respect and appreciation that the author has for people willing to volunteer their time to an organization. They make sure to say that the time is not `free', but rather is a `gift'.
What follows is a well laid out discussion of how to recruit, reward and keep volunteers. While keeping the focus on a `hands-on' personal approach, the author goes through advice on how to interview, evaluate and get the most out of volunteer workers. They discuss staff-volunteer relations, how to handle possible conflicts and how to keep everyone comfortable and working together harmoniously. With helpful summaries at the end of each chapter to keep the reader on track and availed of a quick reference guide, the author does not shy away from meticulous detail in their approach and handles topics from fundraising to creating a company brand with skill and confidence. This book is a must-read for any organization looking to recruit a quality volunteer workforce.
What follows is a well laid out discussion of how to recruit, reward and keep volunteers. While keeping the focus on a `hands-on' personal approach, the author goes through advice on how to interview, evaluate and get the most out of volunteer workers. They discuss staff-volunteer relations, how to handle possible conflicts and how to keep everyone comfortable and working together harmoniously. With helpful summaries at the end of each chapter to keep the reader on track and availed of a quick reference guide, the author does not shy away from meticulous detail in their approach and handles topics from fundraising to creating a company brand with skill and confidence. This book is a must-read for any organization looking to recruit a quality volunteer workforce.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Heidi A
Format:Paperback
365 Ideas for Recruiting, Retaining, Movitating and Rewarding Your Volunteers by Sunny Fader makes the case that your organization's volunteers are best off evolving, not revolving. Don't kick yourself about volunteer turnover, turn over a new leaf instead and follow Fader's lead to lead the pro-bono crew that surrounds you. You will no longer think twice about empowering, engaging, motivating and making nice. Fader also dispells myths about building, retaining and rewarding your team. From budgets to burn-out, achieving volunteer utopia will no longer be a dream.
Fader also does an excellent job motivating you. Her tips, trends and case studies [including the advice to build your brand so the volunteers will follow] surround you with successes, providing ideas and ideals from in, and outside of, the box. You'll find that it's okay to start small, so long as you're thinking big when it comes to organizing volunteers for your organization. Open this book and know that your opportunities are going to be bigger and better than ever.
Fader also does an excellent job motivating you. Her tips, trends and case studies [including the advice to build your brand so the volunteers will follow] surround you with successes, providing ideas and ideals from in, and outside of, the box. You'll find that it's okay to start small, so long as you're thinking big when it comes to organizing volunteers for your organization. Open this book and know that your opportunities are going to be bigger and better than ever.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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First off, let me say that I love a book written about nonprofit management that is giving a part of its profits to a nonprofit organization. Not only should you purchase this very poignant, easy to read book to aid in the success of your nonprofit volunteer management, but to help support a nonprofit, the Humane Society, in their cause.
Volunteer management is a topic of survival for most nonprofit organizations as they rely on volunteers to make their mission a reality. This is quite literally a manual to aid nonprofits in a time of need, and nonprofits should never turn a blind eye to such an expert perspective of successful volunteer management. Right from the beginning it is obvious the author is well experienced in working with volunteers and passionate about the work nonprofit organizations do. Her expertise is demonstrated by the sheer number of people she was able to get volunteer their time and expertise to the project of the book.
The book is easy to read and follow with simple bulleted tips within each section, clear examples of what is being described and case studies to back up the author's steps within the process. Each section will cause you to pause and absorb its important contents as they expand into related critical topics such as staff involvement, branding, working with the media and incorporating modern technology into your volunteer process. I love that so much time is spent on the planning before you even begin the actual recruiting volunteers. It's so important to be ready for your volunteers before they show up from every aspect to ensure the volunteers have a comfortable experience which enables them to provide effective use of their gifted time.
Volunteer management is a topic of survival for most nonprofit organizations as they rely on volunteers to make their mission a reality. This is quite literally a manual to aid nonprofits in a time of need, and nonprofits should never turn a blind eye to such an expert perspective of successful volunteer management. Right from the beginning it is obvious the author is well experienced in working with volunteers and passionate about the work nonprofit organizations do. Her expertise is demonstrated by the sheer number of people she was able to get volunteer their time and expertise to the project of the book.
The book is easy to read and follow with simple bulleted tips within each section, clear examples of what is being described and case studies to back up the author's steps within the process. Each section will cause you to pause and absorb its important contents as they expand into related critical topics such as staff involvement, branding, working with the media and incorporating modern technology into your volunteer process. I love that so much time is spent on the planning before you even begin the actual recruiting volunteers. It's so important to be ready for your volunteers before they show up from every aspect to ensure the volunteers have a comfortable experience which enables them to provide effective use of their gifted time.
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This has become my "go to" book to staff my non-profit animal shelter. I'm very pleased with the purchase of this book
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365 Ideas for Recruiting, Retaining, Motivating and Rewarding Your Volunteers is a book I would recommend to anyone looking to start a non-profit organization. Read more
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