Enhancing Volunteer Recruitment Efficiency with Volunteer Impact
Recruiting volunteers is a challenging yet essential task for any volunteer-involving organization. As a volunteer manager, you understand the...
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Amanda Jensen - Executive Director, Volunteer Lethbridge : Jun 3, 2024 10:00:00 AM
Volunteer Centres perform many functions within a community. With respect to how Centres interact with volunteers, while some do volunteer advising, there are no others in North America that we are aware of that are taking a step into the realm of doing intake and screening for and on behalf of the nonprofit organizations it serves. This is revolutionary. Volunteer Lethbridge has developed a model called the Community Volunteer Management Model (CVMM) that significantly enhances the success of volunteer recruitment and placement.
Often, intake and screening volunteers involves sending them down a long, lazy river of paperwork. This costs the non-profit sector time, money, and effort. But what if there was a "pool" of pre-screened and ready-to-activate community volunteers that organizations could access?
Volunteer Lethbridge has created that pool by providing the resources, time and skills to assist volunteers through the lazy river journey - so they can land in the pool, ready to be pulled out of the water and into a position.
In 2023, VL referred 1000 volunteers, up from 650 the year before (which was the inaugural full year of this model). In 2023, VL referred volunteers to 58 of its 74 member organizations (some do not require volunteers).
Volunteer Lethbridge has received funding to determine how to share this model with other communities. It is difficult to achieve innovation in volunteer management, but we are swimming in the right direction. In a time of tremendous pressure on the nonprofit voluntary sector, we have no choice but to find new ways to engage volunteers, to make it easy as possible for volunteers to get into their roles, and as easy as possible for receiving organizations to incorporate them in the wonderful work they are doing.
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