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 [...]
Category Archives: Recruitment
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 [...]
Sustain Volunteer Programs by Increasing Membership
April 20, 2008 – 6:53 am
New Jersey is teeming with volunteers and volunteer opportunities. Though I’m no expert, I’m willing to bet that a good proportion of those opportunities are less like the Red Cross and more like the local high school athletic boosters—volunteers who come together, work together and manage each other to meet a desired goal. In addition [...]
Let’s Take a Look at the Real World of Volunteering
April 18, 2008 – 7:32 am
by Penny Kern
Jodi’s post on THE WORST PATIENT really highlighted what some of us have been saying for awhile. The world of VOLUNTEERING and recruiting of volunteers has changed. Not totally because of the baby boomers but changed nevertheless.
In her article, she used herself as an example of a manager of volunteer’s worst nightmare. And, [...]
First Impressions Don’t Always Count
April 17, 2008 – 7:31 am
Guest Post by Ann Swain
I think if those of us who manage volunteers were asked to describe our view of the perfect volunteer, most of us would have a pretty definite idea what that volunteer would look like and how they would present themselves. I was always told that first impressions are often the only [...]
How Else Can You Target Recruitment?
April 5, 2008 – 7:02 am
As a “Millennial,” you might think that I’m experienced and well prepared for blogging. On the contrary, this is a first for me—one of many in this past year. Since beginning my career with AmeriCorps I’ve designed landscapes for the first time, advised property owners for the first time, conducted watershed surveys for the first [...]
