Resources to Build Strong Volunteer Teams
Expert guidance on everything you need to lead volunteers, including resources for recruiting, retaining, and recognizing volunteers who support your mission.
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Upcoming Webinars
Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit Series
Join us for webinars specifically designed to help you put the Is Everyone Welcome Tools into practice in your organization.
From Intention to Action: Using "Inspire, Hire, Train, Retain" to Support Disability Inclusion in Volunteer Engagement
Thursday, October 22nd | 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern
Leaders of volunteers play a key role in shaping who feels welcomed, supported, and able to participate in volunteering. Facing what can seem like never-ending demands on our schedules, it can be challenging to find the time to search for resources and identify best practices that will support our goals for disability inclusion. This session introduces Inspire, Hire, Train, Retain (IHTR), a free and customizable toolkit developed to support disability-inclusive workplace practices. Participants will learn how the IHTR resources can be applied to volunteer administration, from disability-inclusive recruitment and role design through to onboarding, supervision, and retention. You will gain practical, actionable strategies for designing and championing volunteer programs where people with disabilities can contribute, belong, and thrive.
Guest Speaker Series
Join us for new tools and ideas, interesting conversations, and resources from around the volunteer engagement field.
Understanding Your Volunteer Partners: Using the Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) to Strengthen Engagement and Retention
What can volunteers tell you about the health of your volunteer program—and are you asking the right questions? The Volunteer Program Assessment (VPA) is a free research-based tool designed to help nonprofit leaders better understand the experiences of their volunteer partners. Developed through a partnership between the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Humane Society of the United States, the VPA draws on published research and nearly two decades of experience assessing volunteer programs across the nonprofit sector. Learn more and register.
Past Webinars
Volunteer Recruitment Workshop Series
This workshop series will walk you through the steps for designing compelling, targeted recruitment messaging for your volunteer opportunities. The Kick Off will outline some of the current trends and challenges in recruiting volunteers and the following workshops will do a deep dive into Position Descriptions, Volunteer Personas, building targeted recruitment messages, using Idealist to recruit, and designing a follow-up communication plan. If you aren't able to attend live, please register to receive the recording and resources from each workshop.
Volunteer Recruitment: Kick Off
Recording | Slides | Worksheet
Volunteer Recruitment: Volunteer Position Descriptions
Recording | Slides | Worksheet
Volunteer Recruitment: Volunteer Personas
Recording | Slides | Worksheet
Volunteer Recruitment: Recruitment Messaging
Recording | Slides | Worksheet
Volunteer Recruitment: Recruiting on Idealist
Volunteer Recruitment: Follow-Up Communications
Volunteering Redefined
Engaging older adult volunteers in student success for 2026
Be a part of a new Learning Community designed specifically for leaders of volunteers engaging older adults in student success.
Is Everyone Welcome Toolkit
Build a more inclusive volunteer program
The Is Everyone Welcome? Toolkit contains best practices for promoting equity in volunteer administration.
The toolkit is an outcome of the Assessing Diversity and Equity in Volunteer Inclusion (ADEVI) project, a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU), and the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA), with support from AmeriCorps.
