Trenton — “Cool Conversations” is the focus of the new blog to be launched this week at VolunteerNewJersey.org for the VolunteerNJ Partnership and NJ Commission for Community Service.
A blog (short for “web log”) is a type of journal that allows readers to leave comments and share stories or advice on hot topics. “From the Field” [...]
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Announcing Volunteer Blog
May 1, 2008 – 6:51 am
Free and Clear at Volunteer New Jersey
April 30, 2008 – 8:40 am
I’m going to go out on a limb here in assuming that you are reading this blog because you’re a manager of volunteers or you’re interested in the management of volunteers. The question is- have you have utilized Volunteer New Jersey as New Jersey’s FREE online resource for volunteer recruitment and management? Are your agency’s [...]
Partnering With Higher Education: Why and How to Get Started
April 30, 2008 – 7:31 am
Guest Post by Michael Wilson
There’s a movement for civic engagement in higher education. University presidents, deans, and professors are committing to more responsive relationships between their campuses and surrounding communities. These leaders aim to mobilize their colleges and universities to serve outside of their walls and, in serving, to deepen and ground the learning of [...]
Ignore Generation Y at your own risk
April 30, 2008 – 7:19 am
The baby boomer demographic is the hot topic in volunteer management these days, but we are missing an opportunity of equal proportions if we fail to consider the impact of millennials, those young adults born after 1980, in the volunteer sector.
The business magazine Fast Company offers an image that puts multi-generational demographics into perspective: picture [...]
Growing Your Orchard
April 30, 2008 – 7:07 am
Spring has finally arrived, all at once, it seems. Often, when professionals think about volunteerism, gardening themes will come to mind…plant the seed, cultivate, and your volunteer program will grow and flourish. Usually, this seems to be associated with an annual garden…plant your seeds, feed and care for them, and you’ll have a vibrant, productive [...]
Six Requirements for Managing Volunteers
April 30, 2008 – 7:06 am
Guest Post Paula Gagnon
As Chair of the Commission for Community Service (Maine) I understand how distance, time and weather contribute to our challenge in communicating and getting together. Each year we cancel at least one meeting of the Commission due to weather and some months making a quorum is a challenge. There are some [...]
3 Simple Ways to Recognize Volunteers Without Spending a Dime
April 30, 2008 – 7:05 am
My hectic morning raced into early afternoon and I sat at my desk looking at the piles of work that lay before me. The post-lunch-energy-drain was settling in when a colleague of mine called to say, “Thanks for all of your hard work on this project. We couldn’t have done it without your help.” It [...]
Using RSS to Keep Up With Blog Content
April 30, 2008 – 7:05 am
I subscribe to over a hundred blogs. How do I manage all that information without getting overwhelmed? And how do you “subscribe” to a blog, anyway?
When I first started reading blogs, I used to bookmark them the way you would any other website you wanted to return to, but eventually that got to be too [...]
When It Comes to Volunteer Management, Size Doesn’t Matter
April 30, 2008 – 7:04 am
Think your organization’s size impacts volunteer management capacity? According to a 2004 Urban Institute report, “Balancing Act: The Challenges and Benefits of Volunteers,” the size of an organization has little influence on the level of benefit gained from volunteers. Drawing on a survey of nearly 3,000 nonprofit organizations, Mark A. Hager and Jeffrey L. Budney [...]
Changing the Volunteer Culture
April 30, 2008 – 6:59 am
I subscribe to an e-Newsletter called CharityChannel and one of the articles caught my eye and I saved it - March 28, 2007. When we started this blog, I emailed the author, Scott Martin, and asked permission to use parts of one of his pieces for a topic of discussion and he agreed.
The piece was [...]
