When you’re given the mandate to expand the communities from which you attract volunteers, what do you do? In this episode, Dani Daly of CASA of San Joaquin County gives us her playbook.
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Courtney Tull has taken a more academic approach to her work as a leader of volunteers. She shares how she’s combined her work as a practitioner - starting with her AmeriCorps service - with her academic work, getting both her Master’s and her Doctorate in volunteer engagement related topics. She’ll share her Doctorate research and what she’s learned about volunteer motivation.
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MobileServe helps organizations coordinate, track and report on service learning opportunities, and has gathered data from over 12 million service hours. Kevin Bauman joins us to talk about what they’ve learned about how to help volunteers create a meaningful connection with the work and your mission through feedback and reflection.
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What do you do when your program simply isn’t working anymore? You change it! In this episode, Theresa Menting of We EmpowHer shares her journey from County employee to nonprofit Executive Director and how she took on the challenge to evolve a women’s mentorship program into something truly remarkable.
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Serial social entrepreneur and youth leader, Zainab Abu-Gilal of MuslimDepiction is taking on big issues, in this case how Muslims are portrayed in society, all while finishing school. In this episode, she helps break the myths about “younger generations” and what they can achieve.
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Liz Raganella from Paws NY shares how her organization has rebounded from the pandemic and is expanding their service area. One of the program components they’ve implemented has been a team-based approach to direct services - creating teams of volunteers to deliver daily pet-support services to their clients in New York City.
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Pandemic lockdowns did nothing to limit the ways the one zoo embraced innovative community engagement and program excellence initiatives. In this episode, Lindsay Marston, Volunteer Manager at the Chester Zoo, shares some of the ways they kept moving ahead against the odds.
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While the pandemic may have stopped in-person volunteering, it didn’t stop the Department of Veterans Affairs. In this episode Prince Taylor shares how they pivoted with purpose during the pandemic to help isolated veterans and realized surprising results.
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In 2021 Holden Forests and Gardens convened a team of volunteers to evaluate and redesign their Volunteer Handbook. Tracee Patterson, Sarah Hartley, and Patrick Biliter join us to talk about the process, what they learned, and how they’ve been able to turn a paper document that no one read into an interactive digital file that has shifted and shaped a new, more inclusive culture of volunteer engagement.
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Tobi Johnson, President and Founder of VolunteerPro, and Jennifer Bennett, Director of Education and Training at VolunteerMatch talk about the Season 4 themes and their thoughts on how successful leaders of volunteers are doubling down on strengthening relationships with their supporters as we build back from the pandemic.
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Kelly Furnas of Operation Kindness shares her professional journey from Director of Volunteer Services to Chief Operating Officer in less than two years and the leadership mindset and actions that made this path possible.
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What happens when a volunteer manager needs to balance the needs of volunteers and paid staff? At the Lloyd Moss Free Clinic Andrea SpringerCollins takes a straightforward approach based in clear communication. In this episode she shares her approach and the systems she’s implemented to successfully manage these relationships.
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Kara McLaughlin of Mesa Community Action Network shares how “career volunteers” play a pivotal role in guiding her agency’s program development and how they grow their leadership pipeline by fostering a welcoming culture and by integrating volunteers into operations at every level.
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Elena Laguna of Oxfam shares how her organization navigated openings and closings of their retail shops due to COVID, which are the primary source of unrestricted funding for the organization’s work, all while maintaining a sense of community amongst their volunteers.
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Lauren Black from the Social Justice Sewing Academy talks about the opportunity her organization had to completely rethink the way they engaged volunteers, and to launch an entirely new volunteer engagement strategy during a pandemic.
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Michele Wiesner of Hire Heroes USA shares how her organization was given an “edge” when it comes to engaging volunteers during a pandemic and how they have been growing capacity through remote volunteering since 2005.
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Elizabeth Garrabrant from the Mid-Ohio Food Collective shares how she’s engaging new types of volunteers in new ways to meet the needs of her community during the second year of the pandemic.
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Sara Bumgarner, Volunteer Services Manager & RSVP Director of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of the Treasure Coast shares how her organization re-purposed use of a simple online device to help volunteers and patients stay connected during COVID.
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