Mark Hager shares his exciting research on technology adoption in volunteer management. This research was conducted in conjunction with CCVA and focused on CVAs and how they’ve changed or adopted technology during the pandemic.
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Tobi Johnson, President & Founder of VolunteerPro, and Jennifer Bennett, Director , Education & Training at VolunteerMatch talk about the Season 3 themes and their thoughts on how leaders of volunteers are continuing to adapt and evolve to engaging volunteers during the ongoing pandemic.
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Faiza Venzant used to focus on the paperwork and processes of managing volunteers in her work with the YMCA of Greater Toronto. But she doesn't do that anymore - she's shifted how she sees her work and the role she plays within her organization, and it's changed her whole approach to volunteer engagement!
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Alison Jones-Nassar of SOAR365 shows us that with a committed and enthusiastic executive leader, matched with a highly-skilled volunteer manager, an agency’s volunteer strategy can truly go far.
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Nicolle Lee from Voya Financial joins us to pull back the curtain and share her company's employee volunteer program's strategies. Voya Financial has just seen an increase in participation in their volunteer events, and they've also discovered additional benefits to deploying employees as volunteers in the community.
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Ricardo Sebastian shares what he's been able to accomplish by tapping into the time and talent of a Young Professionals Board. By creating realistic expectations and providing clear guidelines he's been able to pivot and hit the ground running during these difficult times.
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What do you do when you run the largest intergenerational mentoring program in the country and a pandemic strikes? Elizabeth Pawloski shares how they've been able to connect K-3 students and older adults online while staying physically distant.
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Cheryl White of Cedars shares how her organization has navigated the COVID-19 pandemic by staying grounded in their organizational values and tapping into the power of an online community to connect volunteers, donors, employees, and clients in new and evolving ways.
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Brittni Coe from Metrocrest Services shares her approach to engaging in-person volunteers during a pandemic, and how she's created opportunities to engage a diverse population of volunteers.
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Dr. Helen Timbrell shares her research on the experience volunteers of color have in organizations in the UK. Hadji Singh shares his experience as a volunteer and a research participant.
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Tobi Johnson, President & Founder of VolunteerPro, and Jennifer Bennett, Director , Education & Training at VolunteerMatch talk about the lead up to Season 2, and outline the themes and trends that are driving volunteer engagement during COVID-19.
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In Part 2 Dabash Negash from NYC Service shares ideas for starting a conversation and setting some goals and practices to help your organization understand and achieve better Board diversity, equity and inclusion. If you missed Episode 108 you can hear her discuss the results and findings from their survey and report on Board diversity in New York City.
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In Part 1 Dabash Negash from NYC Service shared the findings from their survey and report on Board diversity in New York City. In Part 2 she shares ideas for starting a conversation and setting some goals and practices to help your organization understand and achieve better Board diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Elise Segars from Crisis Text Line shares her experience motivating, inspiring, and building relationships with volunteers that she never meets face to face. We talk about what’s worked, what wasn’t as successful, and how their recognition strategy is designed to ‘surprise and delight’ their volunteers.
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That’s not a typo – the New York Roadrunners, the organization that plans running events including the New York City Marathon, engages 23,000 volunteers a year. Erika Amaya joins us to talk about how she couldn’t make that happen without volunteer leaders.
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Carla Lehn had a vision for how volunteers could transform the California State Library system. She talks about what she learned, the unexpected benefits of gathering feedback, and how she literally wrote the book on the transformative power of volunteer advocates!
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Open, honest, and transparent communication can produce real results when applied to introducing and implementing changes to a volunteer engagement strategy. Kendra Baumer shares the success she’s had at the New York – New Jersey Trails Conference.
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What can we learn about volunteer engagement from the more formalized structure of intern engagement? Jason Frenzel from Huron River Watershed Council, shares his assessment-driven strategy for ensuring that the community, the intern, and the agency all benefit from the experience.
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