Monthly Archives: May 2011

Submitted by Kyle Andrei This is an excerpted preview of Idealware’s A Consumers Guide to Volunteer Management Software, created in partnership with TechSoup Global. The full version of the guide is available here. When considering Volunteer Management Systems, the most … Continue reading →

By Geoffrey Ng The Maine Conservation Corps is most widely known for its extensive trail work done in parks and public lands throughout the state of Maine, but there is also a great deal of education and community outreach that … Continue reading →

By Anne Schink In our previous posts using the eight principles from the book, The Charismatic Organization, we have talked about those characteristics that create strong internal organizational core. The one most familiar to managers of volunteers is ‘people-focused management’. … Continue reading →

By By Joan Davis If you missed part I you can read it here. Putting it to use How can you leverage virtual collaboration tools to make your own work more efficient? To demonstrate I’ve sketched out a few virtual … Continue reading →

By Patricia Kimball My goal for this blog is to convince you that a celebration of your volunteers is a venue for individual volunteer assessment (or evaluation). How can anyone equate evaluation with celebration? Read on. I promise it makes … Continue reading →

By Becky Kolak If someone were to tell me a year ago that I would be dressed as a life sized clam to educate the public about the significance of clean water to the soft shelled clam, I would have … Continue reading →

By Morgan January May 14th marked the start of the 2011 National AmeriCorps Week. AmeriCorps is a national service program that provides opportunities for citizens to serve through intensive community service. Participants in AmeriCorps are paid a small living stipend … Continue reading →

By Matt Robinson Celebration is vital to service learning practice and to sustaining service-learning in a community. By pausing to acknowledge and celebrate accomplishments during a service-learning project as well as at it’s end we reap exponentially more than we … Continue reading →

By Penny Kern I just had an interesting phone call and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Maybe someone out there can help me process this. A mother just called me asking for community service ideas for her … Continue reading →

Trudy Hamilton I recently had the experience to observe volunteers in a setting entirely outside my realm…hospital volunteers, and have a few thoughts. Often, in smaller hospitals, there simply is no funding to manage a volunteer program. In many healthcare … Continue reading →